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Dark brown eyes so large they only just fit into the arc of his eyebrows stared down at her and she shivered His eyelashes were indecently long and dark for atheir lost little boy char her insides turn to jelly And then he kissed her, long and slow, and there was nothing she could do to resist hi as he ran his hands up the sleek silk of her jacket, and shewanted by aat his feet on a minute-by-minute basis

She broke the kiss, but didn’t pull away—she wanted to savor his rance that clung to his skin “You have scarlet lipstick on your face now”

“And you think that bothers ain “See? Don’t care one little bit”

“We’ll never allery at this rate” She reluctantly eased out of his e that every time his kissed her, another piece of her heart and soul became his to keep forever She couldn’t let him take too much and still expect to survive when all this was over “I’ll need a couple of o”

Matt looked around the apartment and fiddled with the buttons on his jacket cuff “I like it here Can I stay here tonight?”

His bald request rendered her speechless for a second before saying, “In et to feed Princess and I promise to clean up both our poop”

“I really don’t think my place will cut it with you It’s a whole lotyou’re used to Except for that place over the fried chicken joint in Sanibel, of course”

“Exactly I liked it there, too And it was also where you lost your panties for the first time”

“It was a complete dump”

“So is that a no? Get lost, Matt? Your sister clearly isn’t here right now, it’s way too clean from what you’ve told me about her, so you can’t use that as an excuse”

“Well spotted, Sherlock My sister’s had a remarkable reunion with the baby’s father It won’t last two minutes of course, but I don’t have to worry about her for now”

“Yet, you’ll be here with open arms when she decides she needs to treat this place like a hotel again?”

That was harsh, even if he did have a point “She’s my sister What else am I supposed to do? You can’t choose your family”

“You can’t choose your family, but you can choose how you deal with thee of your sweet nature”

“Sweet nature,at a pile of unopened h to notice that they were“Anyway, my relatives are none of your business, and I don’t think you staying here would be a good idea The neighbors gossip like crazy”