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I wasn’t wearing a tie, but if I was, I would have had to loosen it That fa everything below the belt feel heavy and a little achy

I cleared et this cocktail shindig over with"

"We have enough tie clothes The reception is at the hotel"

I s, I can just bow out"

"Or you can pull that littered "I won’t wait up"

I already have the hot babe’s roo it but, oh, I thought it April didn’t know about Friar Jordan’s Ne of Celibacy, so she threw out the occasional, sexy little snark boh "Well, ya know, I’ve got condoht condo to carry them around With those suckers handy, I’d know there was always a chance I could use theht and narrow

"Of course you do" She primly wiped her mouth with her napkin and stood

Forty-fivemyself a mineral water from the minibar in the hotel room when April stepped out of her cubbyhole, fully dressed She paused when she saw nore how much it turned me on when she looked at al in her party attire

She wore a light blue cocktail dress that came to just above her knees It had a strap over one shoulder and fell down in waves around her breasts and hips like a Roa, only artfully tailored to show her feh-heeled sandals and jewelry toaround her shoulders and down her back She looked like aevery dime of that

I took a deep breath and jerked ulp of

"You look very dashing," she said

"Thanks," I grunted She was probably waiting for a compliment in return, but I didn’t want to chance it I already wanted to slip that toga off her shoulder and taste every inch that it covered Shit Even the thought of it was getting me hard I didn’t even have to look at her Goddaet this bullshit over with," I said and April nodded, tucking her phone into her sparkly clutch purse "You need to be back before e will turn into a pumpkin"

She darted a look atout the front door ahead ofprincess I’m supposed to eat an apple and fall into a death coma ‘til my prince comes around and wakes me up with a kiss"

"It’s always a kiss that wakes the Beauty Why a kiss?"

"Because the right kiss froht person can wake anyone up" She pressed the button for the elevator to take us down to the ballroo held "A touch of lips is such a si…but ‘where heart, and soul and sense, in concert move, and the blood’s lava and the pulse ablaze, each kiss is a heart-quake’"

I watched her lips, those full, ripe lips as she recited each and every word "Is that from one of your books?"

"Don Juan A poem," she said simply, as if everyone should know that

When we entered the reception rooh I was reluctant to leave her side I kneas expected of me to mix with conference attendees, TED eht Plus, this was hardly e of beautiful woravitated to me rather quickly and struck up conversations, but the minute April peeled off froe of the rooularly, noto, no lasses of wine and cocktails being passed out on trays and did e to look atApril, who had found a group of people to stand with, one of who the sauy as chatting her up, stroking her generously with his gaze Because who could blame him? That ice blue dress, her shiny dark hair, those full, pink lips--she was a knockout