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“Sure”

She sat down on the couch He popped in the DVD, then turned around to sit down and hesitated What was the matter with him?

She patted the seat beside her “The popcorn is over here”

After another short hesitation, and an unreadable look, he sat down, leaving a few inches between theainst his side and rest her head against his shoulder It was how they alatched DVDs Grant sighed and put his ar to stuff chocolate candies into her already full cheeks faded as Zoe became intensely aware of Grant’s ar had been happening with increasing regularity over the past year, and Zoe had always forced herself to ignore it She’d thought The Night had well and truly cured her of any lingering ros toward Grant, , as the past year had too frequently shown…at least about the lust part

She couldn’t believe that she still wanted him after the painful rejection he’d dealt her when she was nineteen

She’d been hoe for the suether, like always Only there had been so different about that summer It had been as if Grant had finally woken up to the fact she was a woman He’d taken her places he’d previously only taken dates, and she’d caught hi at her, his blue eyes darkened hat she’d been sure was desire, on more than one occasion

She’d realized he was the embodiment of every romantic fantasy she’d ever had or would have when she was sixteen Only he’d been engaged and living the one to college near his real et to know that side of his family It hadn’t worked out the way either he or his dad had hoped Grant’s grandfather had died his sophorandson the ry and driving another wedge between“the witch” that saeon to run the ranch, after his dad had told him he intended to move with Lottie to Portland and oversee his business interests there

To give Roy Cortez credit, he had offered Grant three options: hire a fore authority, sell the ranch that had been in their faenerations, or co the fact that Grant had planned to live and work on the east coast, it had coreed to move home Everyone except Zoe She’d known he wouldn’t leave the ranch’s running to a foreman, and that he would never sell it He was a business tycoon through and through, but he was also connected to the land in the sarandfather had been

His fiancée hadn’t liked it, and had given Grant back his ring He’d started dating lots of different sophisticated women then There were always plenty to choose from, both in the winter, when ski bunnies showed up, and the su pools in barely-there bikinis

Zoe had been sure he would never look at her that way She was too smalltown, and not exactly centerfold material, with her petite fra, at least for a little while, and it had all coht that suu match

She’d found herself pinned beneath his hard body and his even harder erection She could still remember the shock she’d felt as his hips had settled into hers,her intimately aware for the first time of the effect she had on a male body And not just any ed to Grant

He’d kissed her and it had been incredible So incredible that she hadn’t noticed hi clothes until they’d both been naked from the waist up and his mouth had settled on one of her nipples The pleasure had been so intense it had shocked her right out of her passionate haze and she’d panicked

She’d never even been French kissed before She hadn’t wanted to experiment with anyone but Grant, and he hadn’t been available She had pleaded with hio She’d thrown her shirt on and run fros he’d evoked in her Later, she’d wanted to kick herself for being such an idiot She could have trusted Grant not to hurt her

She’d loved him all her life, and if it wasn’t hiive hiinity He’d been supposed to escort her to a town dance, and she’d planned to offer hiht Her plans had ended in her private humiliation when a model from New York had convinced Grant to drop Zoe off at hoht in his private plane