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“Go ahead”

“My paper is going to need some revisions before I send it in They want the manuscript the first week of Deceestions?”

Her expression telegraphed her trepidation They’d had a fight about that paper a few ain

“Of course It would be ive you rinned wryly “I’d appreciate that”

“Now, can we have desk sex or do you want to chat all afternoon?”

“Desk sex, please”

“Your wish isthem aside He closed his laptop and placed it on a nearby shelf before carefully reine Then with one sweep of his arm, he sent all the books and papers to the floor before placing Julia on top of the desk

Then they spent the next hour engaged in a new kind of ood, but it’s ian packing for their trip to To, while Gabriel re to write He found it difficult to concentrate on Guido da Montefeltro at the site of his most recent (and very passionate) encounter with Julianne

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Frustrated, he closed the docu on and pulled up his email He typed a short note to Carson Brown, his lawyer, asking that he begin ical parents and their families

Then he lifted his cell phone and dialed a nu revising her conference paper Her eyes hurt She had decided that Paul was right—she was suffering from some kind of eyestrain and needed to see an optometrist She resolved to rove

“What’s the matter?” Gabriel’s voice reached her from the bed

She pulled her hands away frolasses, and reading

She gave hi and now et back”

“Good Your eyes are so beautiful, it would be shaer in the book that he was reading and extended his other hand to pat the area beside hi that he’d been reading his mother’s diary

“Whatht I shouldn’t put it off”

“Is ityou sad?”

He put the diary aside and rubbed his eyes behind his glasses

“It’s tragic h school and irlfriend Her first job orking for my father’s company One of his secretaries went on maternity leave and she filled in te” Julia clasped her hand in his