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“If that’s true, why don’t you still live in Wyo?”

“I did for a while In a junky old trailer between my folks’ place and Quinn’s house PBR events are spread out across the country, and I started flying ot a private jet at your disposal”

“You’ll never let me live that doill you?”

“Nope Anyway, since Denver is a hub, uys rent a three-bedroouys bull riders?”

Chase shook his head “Dylan is a pilot He’s all over the place Lance is a troubleshooter for a computer software company None of us are ever there at the same time It works well because we’re all at the same point in our careers We basically needed a place to crash, store our stuff and park our cars e’re on the road”

“How’d you raduated froh a friend” When Ava remained quiet, he said, “What?”

She reached for his hand and threaded her fingers through his “Is that where you were before you decided to hide out at Ginger and Kane’s?”

Yeah And I felt like a fking loser the entire ti alone in a place as io ho like I didn’t have one Didn’t have anyone I could really talk to either Not like I’ve learned to talk to you

Rather that share that eht her hand to his mouth and kissed her knuckles “Shed “And wily, because you’re avoiding the question, cowboy”

“Oh, I ain’t the only one who avoids questions”

“Meaning what?”

“Meaning…on’t you tell ently? Since you spend hours on it”

She gazed out the“I’ I’ve never atte the paranoid type, I’, with a little superstition—talking about a project while it’s in incubation stage—thrown in to lance “Plus it wouldn’t do to expose all hly unlikely that’ll ever happen” Chase slowed and took the exit ra to the shoulder past the stop sign Then he scooted fro Ava onto his lap

“Chase! What are you doing?”

“Getting ht heron her lips, he let his thu, sexy line of her jaw When she expelled that sweet sigh of surrender, he swept his tongue into herlicks, shared breath and the wet glide of firm lips on soft This unhurried kiss wasn’t a prelude to anything else Too often when the sexual heat exploded between the this deep connection Which was a shame, because while the sex rocked his world, this stirred his soul

He slipped his lips down to smooch her chin, then placed a very soft kiss on the side of her throat