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"I did a photo shoot in a locker room once They stuck me in an expensive couture dress and had a couple of football players hold e then as it does now that I’uys, I’ll bet they were both in love with you by the end of the photo shoot" When she flushed lightly, he knew he’d hit it dead-on "They asked you out, didn’t they?"

"They seeuys, but--"

"You weren’t allowed to date"

"No, I wasn’t But there’s no one here to stopuntil they’d taken off the face paint, but he couldn’t keep fro her close "Thank God"

He lowered his mouth to hers and kissed her Tried to, anyway, but the paint started cracking off into their et this stuff off"

"No kidding I’ offa clean towel from a small stack in the corner "Close your eyes"

Her hands were steady and sure as she quickly wiped his face clean, and by the time she told him he could open his eyes, his skin was back to normal Before she could do the same for herself, he said, "Let ently run a neet towel over her skin Everything about her was flawless, but he was always careful not to stare too much, not to let on that he was shocked by her beauty each and every ti the irl in the world hadn’t always been easy for her, and that it hadn’t always ood or happy But here in the locker rooer than usual as he’d put on her face paint, he was able to run his fingertips over the curves of her cheekbones, the hollows beneath them, the sweet arches of her eyebrows, and the sensuous curve of her lips

He took his tilow When he was done, he threw the towel into the linen basket across the roo across it to face hi She looked nervous But also aroused

And happymost of all she looked happy It was how he alanted her to be

"Kiss me, Sean"

He slid a couple of inches closer and reached up with one hand to cup her jaw Gently, and oh-so-softly, he leaned in and pressed his lips against hers Their kiss was barely ainst each other’s lips, but he could feel the impact of it all the way down in the deepest part of hie Wanted to possess At the sa he’d never known he could want before: for their kisses to be as emotional as they were sexy And for each one to be more than just foreplay More than just a way to tease, to teh he could tell Serena was as affected by these kisses as he was, he also knew frohter with each one that she was hungry for er last week, too, but she’d hadn’t been ready for more than kisses And even now that he swore he could feel the heat radiating fro her too fast But, he wondered as she rowly sound at his next super-soft, super-sweet kiss, could it finally be ti them down the road in the direction they both obviously wanted to go?

"Is this how you want ainst hers, no tongues, no teeth, just the sweet, si close to her