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"Hi"

"Hi, yourself" He was dressed in custom-tailored pants and a black button-down shirt, which rinkled and untucked with the top two buttons undone The collar looked like he’d stretched it out, and damn, with his dark blond hair cut short, his wolf-like blue eyes, and his sharp cheekbones, Carter e, and sophisticated all at once

He knelt at the edge of the tub "Did you have a good night?"

"You weren’t here when I came home" I hadn’t meant it to sound like an accusation, but it slipped out that way

A smile crossed his lips, and he dipped a hand into the water, stirring it in a slow o and see for ood "What kind of news?"

"News that…" He hesitated, the ss"

"There’s awith the other shout "Miss Nathans!" I bit down on my lip and asked, "Is it news I should know about?"

A flicker of darker e his hand to ers in a slow caress, up and down Just that slight touch and I began to have a hard tiers Water slid down my skin from his hand When it stopped, he dipped down and lifted the water once aze from that vision and lift it back to his face

His eyes were tortured, but when ht away and he murmured, "You should, but I don’t know if I can tell you" His eyebrows bunched, and he shook his head, becoain Then he slid his hands underneatha towel, he walked me back into the bedroom and placed me onto the desk in one corner I could see us in theto the crook of ht over his back, outlining his broad shoulders and tapered waistline My arms had wrapped around his neck, and I slid one down the middle of his back He sucked in his breath under ainst my skin, "Why is it that your presence can calh from you makesto press a kiss to his ear "Because you lovemine with only a few centimeters between us His forehead rested on mine, then one of his hands cupped the side of my face His thumb brushed over my cheek and tucked a strand of my hair behind my ear "I need to tell you what happened today, because it could affect us"

He was torn I could tell

He added, "But not yet"