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"I’m sorry" She wanted so badly to take back her careless words "I knoin front of her, one finger tipping her chin up so that she washis dark and serious eyes She was naked, now, but he didn’t look away

"My grand to do with the fireworks between us, Anna While we’re ht"

Still trying to find a loophole, she pointed to the here the last rays of light were still peeking through her blinds "It’s not night yet"

She waited for his stubborn response, waited for hiotiable

"I want you withtime" He looked as serious as she’d ever seen him, totally earnest Honest in his desires, both prurient and otherwise "Please come home with me, sweetheart Stay withyou deserve"

Oh no

Anna knew exactly how heabout sex, about what they’d been doing in her bedrooas

But her heart--her stupid, pathetic, rapidly pounding heart--was doing everything it could to ignore the truth

And it was her heart, not her brain, that made her drop her underwear back in the suitcase and say, "I need thes she’d ever seen

Oh no

Chapter Ten

Anna looked at his house and said, "You really should have had n a pre-nup"

Not only was Cole known as one of the meanest men in the NFL, he was also one of the surest footed Nonetheless, Anna’s crazy stateain"

Clearly unaware of his dangerous reaction to what she’d said, she gestured to his huge stainless steel and granite kitchen, out the sliding glass doors to his infinity pool and sloping green lawn "All this er or whoever it is that works for you finds out about ourto lose it in a serious way"

"Well then, o"

Her eyes widened in surprise,him realize what he’d just said

He didn’t want to let her go Not now Not ever

Jesus, what the hell was he saying? What the fk was he thinking?

Her taste, her sweet little whimpers as she came, the wonder in her innocent eyes as she took hi with his head

"We both know I’, Cole After you don’t need reeht he was happy with

"You won’t even take jewelry, Anna I’ afterwith hi about me"

He couldn’t keep away from her, had to move closer "You sure about that? Seeht"

Her beautiful face flushed "I’ about sex"