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"Right" He wanted to touch her, to stroke her cheek, and to pull her close enough to breathe in the scent of her skin But he felt dirty, and he didn’t want to put his hands on her until he was clean

"Well, she’s not the one I’ht choice"

He heaved out a relieved little laugh, the tension draining fro convenient since we’re not going to ained her composure, her chin lifted and her shoulders went back "Should I get out the supplies?"

They’d been cautious and brought along a erous one and neither of theot that

"Not here," he said His injury recovery time was rapid compared to humans, but he’d discovered that a stitch here and there could cut several hours of healing down to one or two "Let’s head back toward the border We’ll stop somewhere private"

There was an Army-issue shovel in the trunk, part of a kit he’d picked up at the localof it, too

"What about the statue for McDougal?"

"I’ll tell hiot injured, which cut our trip short"

Lyssa raised a brow "You, big guy?"

Aidan shrugged "He can’t prove ht" She stepped back and opened the front passenger door for hi the battle to keep his distance, he pressed a kiss to her cheek before he gingerly atteet in the car

"I love you," she said

"Thank you" His gaze met hers "I needed to hear that"

She blew him a kiss "I know"

Withinnorth

Stacey watched Connor spoonPao chicken onto his plate There were several mostly empty boxes of Chinese food scattered all across the coffee table She set her chopsticks down and picked up a cream cheese wonton "I have never seen anyone eat so rinned that broad boyish sood eater, too,"

he said "I dig it"

"My hips don’t"

"Your hips don’t knohat’s good for thelare and expertly wielded chopsticks to convey a piece of chicken to his aze dropped to his bared stomach and she admired the sheerenough food to feed her and Justin for a week, he still looked taut, lean, and hard

Gorgeous

She was still having trouble processing the fact that they’d had sex, although her body still tingled froed on the living roo The Mummy, one of her favorite movies She was a sucker for a blow ’em up action flick with a hot hero and a touch of romance Connor said he liked it, too, but he spenther than he did the television She’d have thought his interest would wane after the sex, at least a little

Instead he seemed more interested than before

She had to adued by hi her elbow on the table and her chin in her palm

"I have some information for Aidan"

"You couldn’t call?"

He shook his head with a s I tell him"

"How like a man," she teased

"Watch it, sweetheart"

Stacey liked it when he called her that There was soue that lent sincerity to the common endearment "Are you ex-Special Forces like Aidan?"

"Yeah" There was a e to his response

"You sound as if you miss it"

"I do" He reached over and snatched the half-eaten wonton from her plate and popped it into his"There are fresh ones in the box"

"They don’t taste as good"

Her eyes narrowed and he stuck a playful tongue out at her On the screen, Rick O’Connell was battling against a ue

She watched the scene for a moment, then asked Connor, "So what do you do now that you’re out of the ar as Cross"

She’d tried to get Aidan to name an actual branch of the ht-lipped Lyssa said it was super-secret covert stuff

So, what? Stacey had said If he tells hed Of course not ’Cuz seriously, Stacey ht as well tell o