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"Thanks, Tessa That feels much better Got another towel?"

"Uh, you’re welco bun, da down her turtleneck "I’ me a dry towel"

How could he sound so sexy when he co? If it had been anyone else, she would have stood her ground Her hair wasn’t that wet; she was fine But she headed for the bathroorabbed a dry one

On the way back to the living rooet the rolls, first"

"I can warain

"So… how do you think you ended up taking a swim in the Pacific in the middle of winter?" she asked froe of rolls in hand, she returned to the fire and handed them to him

"Haven’t a clue"

"Without any clothes?" Her cheeks heated, just thinking about how he’d looked in the raw-- down his chest, tantalizingly seductive, his stomach flat and his butt--which she would die to have--toned and provocative

His h he said he didn’t re, she had the distinct iain, what did she know about a, except about so your brother’s girlfriend?" He turned the rolls

"Michael didn’t know And the police couldn’t locate hiave her a skeptical look and served up her steak and the rolls

"My brother couldn’t catch her with hi sous"

After she returned and served up the asparagus, but before he began to eat his ed in front of the fireplace, as if they had known each other forever His legs stretched out beyond hers way too inti her in, and yet to be able to keep her ar pinned, she rested her elbows on his knees She had never known anyone she could get this close to so quickly and feel just right

He reently, careful not to pull it

"Your dinner will get cold," she ad out of her element No man had ever let her hair down and the experience was just as beguiling as the rest of his ood hotpretty hot" His deep baritone voice penetrated her defenses, offering protection and silky seduction Warainst her back "How about you?"

Sizzling, as in having one of those hot flashes herto do with the fire, and all to do with the Greek god war her backside

He stroked Tessa’s hair with tender caresses, and she suddenly wasn’t hungry Instead, she wanted to turn around and kiss him She was pretty sure his kisses could melt the polar ice caps the way he looked at her and touched her, heating her from the top of her damp head to her boot-covered toes The way his first kiss had done

Despite the circuether, she felt a sense of relief that he was here Well,in the chilly house alone, without any electricity, still trying to get a fire going, worried that whoever broke into the house was lurking outside She would never have ih Michael had done so outside a number of times while she’d watched If she’d been on her own, she probably would have fixed a tuna fish sandwich and sat in the cold, eating it while a flashlight illuht, the rest in shadows Worrying that the intruder would return

Hunter stroked her hair some more with the towel, then leaned over and kissed the back of her head, his groin pressed hard against her backside He was totally aroused and she was getting herself into hot water What if the guy wasabout his past He wasn’t wearing a ring, but maybe in his occupation, he couldn’t Or , because it stifled his sex life Like her father

"Thanks soher distance

"A natural redhead" He co it as if he had never seen anything quite like it, caressing, awed

And for a minute in time, she felt adored, when no one had ever treated her that way But then she shuttered her heart, reht be a wouile wos and rose