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Thoughts of his date cah? Was he here for a consolation prize? Is that what she’d now become? "Oh stop!" she said to herself in theridiculous," she continued to whisper softly "This is the perfect setup Who could ask for uy’s body is unreal!" Now she pointed at herself et involved and ruin this!"

After rinsing witha little perfume on, she hurried to the front door He’d already knocked once

"Hey," she said, trying to tone down the huge smile and not look so ecstatic to see him as she opened the door for hi as hers felt then stepped in Before she could say another word, he pulled her to hi her feverishly

Nellie fell into his possessive eainst hers His mouth continued to devour hers as if he hadn’t kissed her in o ith every stroke of his tongue, which wrapped around hers When he finally caainst hers and s a deep breath but still unable to even speak, she shook her head and gulped His eyes were so dark and full of shine It had always a his stares could be only to turn into such a contrast when those very sa down an opponent ominously They were still sexy as sin either way, but she’d only recently begun to see the s stare--a new one she liked to think he reserved just for her But she knew better

Her ht The very thought unbelievably had her tingling already

"You wanna go to dinner?"

That shot her right out of her thoughts "Dinner?"

Abel shrugged, pulling away a bit, and she had to fight the urge to pull hiured I owe you thatif Noah or Roni had somehow put him up to this Maybe Roni had picked up on the dive herabout it "You don’t owe , and I’reat with this arrangement It’s for the best this way No de, because as much as she hated to admit it, she was more than thrilled to knoas here and not out on his date, regardless of why The last thing she wanted was for hia bit dark, and he lifted a brow "Yeah, I reht it’d be cool if ent to dinner first" His jaw clenched for a ht find interesting"

Secretly excited that he wanted to doromps, she lifted a shoulder and tried to appear as indifferent as she could "I guess I had skipped dinner" She nodded in the direction of her dining table with her laptop and a still-full single wine glass "I was just going to do a little work, but now that you ry"

"Good" His lips spread into a sexy so"

She loosened her hand frorab her purse frorabbed her hand back and pulled her to hiue lick her neck then suck it le in the most private of places, and her entire body tre, he sucked harder, ood"

Unable to hold it in, she gasped as his tongue continued to tease and work its way down to just below her earlobe She felt hiainst her ear "Don’t worry," heback here and tasting every part of your body"

To her diso, and she walked away, feeling light-headed, nearly sturabbed her purse and a light sweatertasting every part of your body

Nellie took one last tre to compose herself before she walked out of her bedroom No sooner did she reach him in the front rooain There was a noticeable gentleness about the way he kissed her now It was still very sensual and very deep, but he toned down the aggressiveness

"Daainst her lips in a tone that was new to her then inhaled deeply before finally pulling away and leaving her confused

"What?" She asked, looking into his eyes

He shook his head, and for a moment, he appeared unnerved as if those last tords had ," he sain quickly "I can hardly wait until later"

She alest that maybe they shouldn’t wait Maybe they could just skip the restaurant and get down to the business of hi her But the nerve evaporated quickly as her face heated just fro it, she did want hi forward to later just as ue, she se with her eyes That seemed to do it His eyes were on her lips immediately as the corner of his mouth lifted She’d leave it at that and then show hi for him as well For now, they were off to dinner