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It was the perfect situation for a no-strings fling Except Bront&euers, for people she would run into and never see after that night Logan was different She already knew a lot more about him than she did a lot of people She liked hiuys, but ly note, and she didn’t want that to happen with Logan But if she turned hiet the chance to experience just hoonderful ht be

"I want this," she adood I am at casual relationships"

"We can worry about that once we’re rescued," he told her, and leaned in to close the distance between the to do this They were going to do this She was going to have a ridiculous, exciting, passionate fling with a an Hawkings, who made her toes curl every time she looked at him Who kissed like he’d invented it

And here she was, in an ugly tourist T-shirt, ild beach hair and not a touch of makeup Maybe it wasn’t Brontë as much as it was that she was the only woht

He touched his fingertips to her chin, forcing her to look at hiood," she said, and gave him a shy smile "I’m just not exactly at "

She gave hi that came to mind "‘Happiness depends upon ourselves’ Aristotle"

"See?" He whispered, leaning in to kiss at her neck "Hearing you say that is so incredibly hot"

She laughed again "You’re a strange man"

"And you’re beautiful," he said bluntly "I haven’t been able to take h to bolster her deflated ego She leaned close to hi to his mouth "Then kiss me?"

"You have to ask?" He leaned in closer

"Asking’s good," she ain, just as his lips met hers

For the second time that day, she ept away by his kiss He had such an a mouth She’d kissed plenty of men, but none of thean’scontrol first, followed by his tongue She was helpless to resist, and parted her lips when his tongue brushed against her ainst her own, the kissdeeper His fingertips played along her jawline as he kissed her, as if ready to hold her steady if they needed to

Hisdeep until the world narrowed to Logan’s mouth on hers and Brontë was lost in the sensation She’d barely noticed that she was now leaning heavily against hiht When he shifted, she nearly toppled and began to giggle

"Careful," he warned her His voice was stern, but there was a crinkling around his eyes that told her he was aerous"

"Extree to reach up and touch her lips They felt swollen and soft and wet from his kiss With her eyes on him, Bront&euht need to lie down to getbody looup on one elbow to face her "Better?"

She glanced over at hile, but he was still delicious Froe hand that lay on the blanket, she loved the look of hih She stared up at the night sky and then turned her head, listening to the gentle sound of the waves as they hit the beach "Should we go inside?"

"Do you want to?"

"I don’t know," she admitted Part of her wanted to stay out here in the open, by the beach And part of her was totally panicked at the thought oflove out in the open "I want to stay out here but it feels"

"Wrong?"

"I was going to say naughty"

One corner of his hty is bad?"

She reached over to hiht sprinkling of chest hair across his pectorals "Actually, no Now that I think about it, I rather like naughty What about you?"

"I don’t have condoht the idiot She should have grabbed them when she was inside She had her birth control pillssomewhere But she was pretty sure she’d missed a few days and didn’t want to chance it Condo any"