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Pleased with that answer, Royce headed to the kitchen to snag her aHe returned to find her seated at the table in the chair across from the one he’d occupied Her head rested on one of her hands, elbow on the table, the otherthat he’d found in her cabinet in front of her, and sat down next to her, rather than in his prior seat He shook the bottle of pills in his hand and drew her attention "I dug around and found these in your spare bathroom cabinet" He dumped two aspirins in his palm and held them out for her to take

Surprise etched her features as she searched his face and then reached for the aze to the vanilla creae She poured some in her cup and downed the pills with the hot, sweet aze jerked to his "No No My head hurts and… " She stopped and stared into her cup, pal around it "And I… you know" Her lashes lifted and she see he was sure the well known dynaled with

"Tell me," he prompted

"Oh well, heck I’ll just say it I’ht I wasn’t exactly proper"

Still honest, uarded, expected ht, that she wouldn’t be near as enticing as he’d thought the night before But she was just as refreshingly different from what he’d expected from her today, as she had been yesterday And he knew that part of whatto hi to touch his life in a very long time He didn’t want her to feel embarrassed Hell, he’d wanted her just asher so excited had made hi on that desire

"Come here" He turned his chair and held out his hand in invitation She looked at hied gently, and softly added, "Please"

For a ht she would refuse but satisfaction warmed him as she pushed from her chair and came to him It took so little for her to esture of her willingly sliding into his lap wasn’t so sih The effort he knew it took for her to reach beyond her inhibitionsa hundred tie her mind, he wrapped his arms around her waist "You have no reason to be eht"

"But we didn’t"

"I loved last night," he repeated "And since its the weekend, I would love it if you would spend the day with me"

Her eyes ide "You want to spend the day with ers behind her neck and pulled her lips to his in a quick but hungry kiss "What do you say?"

She hesitated "This isn’t exactly how I had this planned"

"Thought you could use ht of hot sex and be done with me, huh?"

Her cheeks flushed "No," she said "I hed "Spend the day with me, Lauren"

"Royce" Her voice hinted at uneasiness "I’ave a delicate little laugh "See what you do to me? It’s not normal for me to not finish sentences You’re very"