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"What er at her like a pendulum "You can’t answer a question with a question That’s breaking the rules Noer the question"

She sighed, her shoulders sagging slightly "I talked tonext week"

"This worries you why?" He’d heard scant little about her family He’d noticed that every mention of her oing to--"

"Going to what?" he asked, his grip on her hand tightening

"Judge you"

Saaze "And that bothers you?"

She didn’t aze "Yes, because I’ more to do with me and that would devastate on lady, but she isn’t going to run me off"

"You haven’t met er beneath her chin and raised her head so she couldn’t avoid looking at his for you one way or the other"

Hope widened her eyes "Pro about this

Leaning forward, their foreheads touched and Beth whispered, "I’ you to that promise, Saht about it often enough; in fact, it’d been para his head, he rubbed his nose against hers and then, because he couldn’t resist a second longer, he pressed hisfor this erness as Saroan and parted her lips, welco hiers tangling with her hair as he slanted his head slightly She placed her hands against his chest and then gripped hold of the fabric of his shirt, clinging to him

Delicate as she was, he didn’t dare kiss her the way he wanted to The hunger was there, the need, the desire, but he restrained hi hisGradually he pressedthe slick moisture back and forth until he swore he’d never experienced a more erotic kiss in his life

When he broke away, his breathing was irregular and harsh He held her for several heart-throbbing seconds while he regained his co to find his voice

"I better go" He continued to hold her, finding releasing her harder than ever

"Okay" She, too, continued to cling to hi her breath, she eased away and whispered, "That was nice"

"That was more than nice," Sam said, and kissed the top of her head as he pushed back "It onderful"

Beth’s eyes re you to kiss rinned Good question "The hell if I know All I can say is that it orth the wait"

Her smile widened "Yes, it was"

Friday Saed from the hospital and transported to the rehab facility Sam wished he’d taken the day off so that he could be with her, which didn’t o with her Still, he reed things between the about Beth and wanting to kiss her again and again All he kneas that within a matter of a week she had becoical or reasonable

Despite all their differences, he was drawn to her in ways that he hadn’t been to a woer than he could remember Okay, he could reet

Her smile was part of the attraction, he knew Her entire face lit up with happiness whenever he ca all day for just that moment The irony of it was he’d been the one who could barely wait to get to her Her s him square in the chest God help him, he could live a year on one of her smiles