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“You knoould never touch another woman”

“And you think I would touch another man?”

Silence, his face harsh with shadows “Otherher head, she reached out to lay her palers closed over her wrist, his other hand co to lie at her waist “You don’t see it, but I’ with hie watched with ad eyes It was as if they kne he moved when inside a woman, how he could play a wo he desired Except she knew they didn’t For he had waited for her, though his body had to have de his way from women who did not honor their husbands

“You areit over the beating organ “It doesn’t ive ”

“Always?”

“Always”

“Honor”

Ignoring theworld, she fought desperately to hold on to the dream—because the woman she was in that hazy place, she was loved, loved so deeply that it was a little terrifying

“Honor” A caress of orchids and gold, decadent, luxuriant, enticing

She jerked upright in her seat to find that they were driving into the parking garage beneath her building “I fell asleep” In a car With a ”

“Just a dream” One so vivid she could almost feel the stubble of her drea across after parking the SUV, he stroked a finger over her cheek, where she could feel lines caused by sleep “In sleep, I reainst her cheek, had a disorienting sense of déjà vu “Goodout of existence as quickly as it had awakened

Thick black lashes coood memories aren’t welcohts cut across the garage behind the the intimacy of the momentand yet neither of them moved “Come upstairs” It wasn’t an invitation she would have even considered o But she’d been another woman then

D his hand, but she didn’t need words to read the dark heat in his expression, his lips suddenly softer, erotically teot out of the car and led hi fine tendrils of exotic scent around her Not susceptible enough to be coerced by it, she allowed herself to luxuriate in the sensation

He got a call just before they entered the apart to his half of the conversation, but he told her the details after he hung up “Venom’s confir the third” Putting his cell phone on her coffee table, he said, “It ”