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"Just stabbed in the side, no big deal--"

She jerked up "What--"

Axe waved his hand back and forth "It’s not a probleet a really good picture of how bad it had been On the other hand, hello Nakey

His conscience spoke up "Ah, I’"

Her eyes grew hooded "That’s all right with me"

Axe’s hips rolled at that sexy tone of hers "Then cut the da off me There are scissors in the kitchen By the stove"

The sound of her walking through the little house, just as when she’d gone upstairs, made him realize how e was here in the sticks: Out in this rural part of Caldwell, there was no aht frohbors too close

Funny, he had never had much of an opinion about the property before … but he liked the solitude

Especially with her around

"I’ll be careful," she said as she caot down on her knees next to hi to have to start at the bottoht and then started to pump "Elise?"

"What?" she asked as she moved down to the hem with the blades

"You realize I’m …"

It was funny that athat was physically possible, often in front of crowds of people, was suddenly pulling the shy-guy routine But the difference was, he wanted Elise to like the way he looked In the other situations, he hadn’t given a shit

"You’re what," she whispered "I want to hear you say it"

"I’m hard," hein the world to have a hospital patient say that to a feether Frankenstein of a guy tell you that the one part of hio

But for whatever reason, she didn’t care about all the oh-so-uglies

Her s to have to do so about that, aren’t I," shesit-ups as she went to work, the silver scissors shiny and reflecting the firelight, the blades flashing as she started to cut Right at the center of the gown

The slicing sound of those two sharp halves coain so close to his erection ht where the action was