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"If you want to come watch ," she said, closing the lid on her water bottle and walking back into the e Are you at home?" he asked

"Oh, about that…" Liz said

"What?"

"My roommate came back into town She was in London--I won’t even try to explain why--but I don’t have the house to et picked up somewhere else?" he asked dryly

"Ohher head

"I’ to fuck you," he nearly growled at her through the phone

His voice sent shivers down her spine as she thought about their sex life They were having sex more each week in stolen secrether last boyfriend And she had been practically living with her boyfriend at the ti and incredible each time she ith Brady

Plus, she couldn’t deny that she enjoyed getting to know him on a more personal level when theythe more time he spent with her After the incident with his sister, he had told her all about his family--his father, the politician; his er brother, Clay, the law student; and his younger sister, Savannah, ould be attending UNC in the fall She had even learned that Savannah was planning to major in journaliset on the paper

She needed to make a decision She stared at her open Word document and then exhaled softly She knew that she had work to do, but she wasn’t really ht be better to look at it fresh tomorrow And anyway, she really wanted to see Brady

"I’m at the office"

"In the Union?" Brady asked

"Yeah Do you knohere the paper is?"

"Ten minutes," he said before the line went dead

Almost exactly ten minutes later, Liz heard the door to the newspaper office open She peeked her head around the corner of Hayden’s office and couldn’t help but let a big grin spread across her face Brady Maxas in her office He was on her turf And he looked really fucking hot

He looked as if he had coht from the office in black dress slacks and a tucked-in blue button-down His jacket had clearly been discarded in the car It was too hot for pants and a long-sleeved shirt, but she knew that he wouldn’t have gone into work in anything else His dark eyes caught hers across the roonited in that one look How did he do that?

She opened herGreet him, maybe? She couldn’t even rerabbed her around the middle, pushed theether Liz tilted her head back, reveling in his kisses She heard him kick the door closed, but all she could think about was his lips, his hands, his body

Liz couldn’t get enough of hiht out of her It had only been three days Three days didn’t nor there in his aro the interminable amount of tiain control of herself

"Baby, it’s really good to see you," he groaned against her mouth

Liz nodded her head She didn’t even have words With hi in front of her now, she couldn’t even re before he arrived

"I can’t tell if you’re happy I’ look on his handsoht

"I can’t believe you’re at my office That’s basically public territory, Brady," Liz said, sliding her hands up around his neck

"It’s the ht That’s hardly public," he corrected

"As close as it’s been since ere at the Jefferson-Jackson gala," she whispered She hoped she didn’t sound as if she were co She liked her tih, and she wished for more But not now, not when she was in his aret," he said, setting clear boundaries

She knew that all along They couldn’t meet in public That would defeat the whole purpose of what they were doing

"As long as I get to be close to you, then I don’t care," Liz said, gripping the collar of his shirt in her hands and tugging him back down "And anyway, ainst his ue darted out and licked across his bottom lip