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She chuckled but settled bonelessly into his arue

"Good night, Swanny I’lad you’re here with lad too"

CHAPTER 16

THOUGH Swanny had set the alarm on his watch, he had an internal clock that never failed him If he knehat time he had to be up, he woke up five minutes before without fail

He reached down to turn the alar soundly in his arms He had five minutes before he needed to wake her up, and he intended to savor every one of those five minutes

She was nestled in the curve of his arm, her hair spread out over his arm and the pillow She was as beautiful in sleep as she ake and alert He studied her in the di the opportunity to drink his fill when she was sleeping

The straps to her top had slid down her shoulders, and it would take only the slightest movement to expose her nipple As it was, the pluly visible, theon her niles so it didn’t bare her further

She shifted and he froze, but she sih and then settled back down again

Damn, but he hated to wake her He could lie this way for hours, siht of her in bed with his between his, and his leg thrown over her possessively, anchoring her solidly against hireed that they shouldn’t rush things, but the intiible as if they had reed not to rush, he was honest enough with himself to know that she would be in his bed and he would be inside her soon They both wanted the sa relationship was inevitable

All of his earlier wariness was gone, vanished Now that he was certain of her and her feelings, he was eager to take that next step Because sex with Eden wouldn’t just be sex He knew in his heart that it would be earth-shattering and that it would likely change the course of his life forever, no matter what happened between them later

He refused to look too far down the road because their careers took them in completely separate directions He was just focused on now and the ti beyond here and noould only bring him heartache