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He brushed his lips over hers, and she felt the velvety-soft touch all the way to the tips of her curled toes Then his ht, waiting for her response With her heart in her throat, she placed her hands on his shoulders and leaned in

A shudder rolled through Dawson, and he cupped her cheek Her skin hummed as the kiss deepened So the front of his sweater, pulling him closer, because there was still some space between them and that space was tooher down so that she was under hie And he kept kissing her, changing the angle, causing her pulse to thrus Then he pressed down, fitted against her fro in raw emotions and heat

A very real, intense heat that beat at her, lapped at her in waves

There was soical in the way he kissed, because she swore she was seeing stars behind her lids It was taking the air right out of her lungs Slow, heady war buzzed, like a timer in her ears, but boy oh boy, she didn’t care Not when Daas kissing her Not when a hand fell to her shoulder, slid down her arm, over the curve of her waist, to her hip

Not even when the white light behind her lids grew to be so intense she had to open her eyes

Chapter 10

The Aru him so Nasty SOB was bold, too, because the sun ay up in the sky for the Aruoing to fly

Dee stopped twirling her straw in her soda as her features pinched For afroer of the Shtened around the poker

“One of them is near?” Dee whispered

Jocelyn ca over her rounded belly “Do you feel that?” Her voice was low as her eyes searched the s “A darkness has colanced down at his half-eaten meatloaf sandwich More like a pain in his ass had coo to wasteto die

Grabbing a napkin, he cleaned his hands off as he stood He only saw his sister “Call Adaet you”

A flush covered her cheeks “But I can help you,” she said in a low voice “I can fight”

“Over my dead body” He turned to Jocelyn “If she tries to leave here with the Thoive you perlanced down at her belly as if she were trying to figure out how she was supposed to that when Dee groaned “Fine Just coht?”