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Prologue

"I’aes often ignore all logic Abel Ayala knew this was all this was A day of sipping on cocktails and lying around the deck of a cruise ship watching scantily-clad bikini-wearing woo-ahead s into the eyes of Nellie Gaht years older than he was Fro a load of ee and probably still held a torch for her ex as well She was so of in ter some sexual tension Damn it!

The fact that she’d turned her life around after what had been hailed by Roni, his friend’s wife and Nellie’s best friend, as one of the h, didn’t help She’d gone and shaped up and did a completeIf he hadn’t known it, he never would have even guessed that this sexy-as-hell wo thirty soon The sexual tension between the on for ining her requited feelings of lust

His twenty-two-year-old ass had no business with a wo involved with Roni’s best friend--especially knowing full well he’d never take a relationship with her seriously But this changed things Nellie was telling his-attached relationship She was as interested in anything serious as he was Co off what she called the divorce frolad now for the liquid courage Nellie’s wine had provided If not for it, the offer one so far as to say that she was all for a fun-and-run experience and that she’d had her eye on him for sos could sour This could even cause a rift between his ca parts of his body said otherwise

She tilted her head in that sexy way she did so often with curved lips that practically called out for his To hell with logic! Just pulling her delicate fraainst his immediately released so every ti hard, he stared at those lips--lips he’d wondered far too a a desire like none he’d ever felt before, he kissed her deeply, sucking her tongue and her lips Da it--over thinking it--for months This was just his ever-so-curious body’s reaction to finally giving into a longing that had peaked tonight as they’d enjoyed a few friendly dances That’s all it was But he needed more than just a kiss now God, he wanted so ah to catch his breath and take a look around the almost-empty deck

"I’d invite you back to ed his hand and was already on the o back to mine"

The second the elevator doors closed, Abel pushed her against the wall, pulling her by the waist to hiue sucked at every inch of hers She panted softly, running her fingers through his hair as he her

As theelevator came to a stop, Abel tore himself away No sooner had the doors opened than they were out in a rush to her roo corridor of rooms

"How far down?" Abel asked

"All the way to the end," she replied, taking even longer strides

Feeling crazed with anticipation, Abel’s eyes searched for the ice/vending machine room like the one on his floor The moment he saw it, he pulled her in it

He answered her confused expression with a kiss as he closed the door and pushed her against it "I need to refuel"

All right, he needed to get laidtoo , because he’d never felt this kind of urgency Duly noted--he’d , bringing it around hi her lower lip, "or I ht here"

"Do it," was her only response, and he froze

Pulling back to look in her eyes, he could see she was serious "Right here?" He asked, his hand already traveling down under her dress

She nodded as his fingers felt the da his heart into overdrive He squeezed his eyes shut as he leaned his forehead against hers "Sweetheart, don’t play with me"

"I’m not," she assured hi down at her big brown eyes Up until that olden specks that were sprinkled throughout The desire he saw in theh, he didn’t htest bit of apprehension He couldn’t blame her Anyone could walk in on theainst the force of any one person or ainst it--at least until he was sure she was decent But he didn’t want her doing anything she wasn’t completely certain about