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Her entire body felt suffused with heat at his words "Logan, I--"

"No, let me finish," he said "You need this to feel coain You want to date without the money or the power I understand that And now that I’ve had so to take things slow" He took her hand in his, and then raised it to his lips, pressing a light kiss to her knuckles "We’re not going to take things to the next level again until you’re ready But I don’t want just sex frooing to be you andand hard about what you want Because I knohat I want I want you"

So direct and to the point She felt breathless, gazing up into his serious face "I don’t know if I’m ready for that yet," she told him honestly

He pressed another kiss to her knuckles and sht?"

"I have to check an

"Brontë," he said patiently "We both know you can be free toa to see if she could win, and it wasn’t fair to him "I’m free What do you want to do, then?"

"Be with you"

At this rate, she was never going to stop blushing He ely pleased She rather liked being the center of his universe, even if at the moment his universe consisted of s? Dinner?"

"Have you been to Broadway yet?"

Excite to I would love to see a show! Isn’t it too late to find tickets to anything good, though?"

"Leave that up to me I’ll pick you up for dinner toht?"

"I will Good night, Logan"

She watched hi and head back down the street to the subway He didn’t look back at her, but that was okay Her entire body was still warm from his words

What do you want to do, then?

Be with youThink ofthat she would think of him somehow felt more intimate than a dozen kisses

Bront&eu up to the apartment Gretchen hadn’t moved from the space she’d occupied when Brontë had left hours earlier, except her bun now had several pencils stuck into it, and the cat had moved to curl around her feet She looked up at Bront&eulanced at the clock "Oh Oh It’s late" She rubbed her eyes and stared at her computer screen "Well, shit I think I lost track of tio?"

"Good," Bront&euh "And bad I’m still totally in love with him"

"Just don’t tell hiuess I’ll stop hating hiain"

Bront&euain toive me a chance to fix this last chapter I wrote It’s horrible" She stared at the screen and gri this book won’t have my real na off to bed See you in the "

Gretchen didn’t look up from the screen "See you"

Bront&euhts were entirely of Logan

The next night, Logan took her out to a popular Broadway show, and she had an a time She didn’t even raise an eyebrohen he produced box seats instead of ones in the nosebleed section Afterward, they went out for drinks and spent the evening talking and laughing together She told him about her childhood in the Midwest, and he told her about his adventures at boarding school as a boy When they parted that night, he si and a kiss on the cheek

The next night, he took her ice skating at Rockefeller, deter every tourist hot spot that New York had to offer She didn’t care, though She loved the sheer fun of being out with hi hands with hihed the entire tian’s serious face had a save her just a caress on the cheek and a quick peck before leaving her on the stoop, her pulse throbbing with unfulfilled desire

She kneas doing it on purpose, of course If she wanted to have a few dates just as a normal couple, they’d take it slow Extremely slow That had been her plan, after all A week or two of just dating

Unfortunately for her, the plan was backfiring in a h Central Park two days later, his every touch sent a ripple of desire through her body Her nipples were hard enough at his nearness that she wore several layers of clothing to cover it up And when he leaned in to nuzzle the nape of her neck in a quietly affectionate move, her knees eak, her sex instantly wet

This was not exactly how she’d planned for the week to go She said nothing, of course, though she h a bit e ride around the park, and when he held her close, she estively Her skin was heated and flushed with need, but he only gave her a light kiss on the lips

If this is how he thinks nor to be very surprised when I jump his bones in the next date or two She had wanted to an to prove that the real spark was there between thelacial"