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She raised her brows just a hair, undoubtedly aood at this surreptitious stuff Really good, he had to adallery across the street, looking vexed because it was closed I would guess you were on a schedule--self-imposed--and didn’t like the proverbial wrench in your plans You were trying to figure out what to do with your spare tiallery opened, saw the restaurant, and came in here"

"Saw you and came in here," he corrected

If she was so observant, and he suspected from her analysis of the situation that she hich reminded him of a wolf--he wondered why she’d left out the most important part And he wondered why she’d taken such a keen interest in hiued by her Or she uys were and had just been keeping an eye on hi a picture of the Mercedes’s license plate in a covert way And that made me curious," he said

She s sed froh to believe his interest had everything to do with her taking a picture of a license plate instead of having ht not be a wolf, but she sure seeain "This isn’t the kind of place you usually frequent, I iain that she seemed so astute He couldn’t help but admire that quality in her--particularly when she could read hi so

"You’re too…" she said, her gaze sweeping over hiertips down his leather vest--and his body reacted, tightening with raw need Her gaze slid lower to his stonewashed jeans, and then she lifted her eyes to ed, in a casual, cool sort of way" She brushed her fingers lightly over his cheek, tickling the short hairs of the couple of days’ beard growth, her eyes considering his face "Yep, too rugged for the likes of this place"

When she dropped her hand fro for you?" His voice was a whole lot huskier than he’d intended He wondered if after he’d kissed her and pretended a deeper friendship, she had played the role for Mario, the criame to deepen the role

"Sure That’s hen you first came in, you couldn’t find me I ducked inside and found a spot to observe you, while looking for where Constantino had perched, and then when I thought you looked fairly harmless…"

He couldn’t believe it She’d ditched him when she entered the restaurant so she could observe him, and he hadn’t even been privy to the fact? The woman was a marvel And definitely a wolf at heart

But then her coht--handsoerous but more in an innocuous way More of a lady-killer type, if anything"

"Innocuous?" He chuckled at that He could be quite dangerous, and it didn’t take much of a push to shove him in that direction But the other part? "Lady-killer?" He really didn’t see himself that way

"The way the hostess and then the waitress were sizing you up…" She let the thought trail off and shrugged

He wondered about the waitress If she knew this woman so well, hoell did his bounty hunter know her? He was h, by her response that he was a lady-killer He couldn’t believe that, as close as she’d coears like this so co about her was timorous, and he liked that about her--to an extent He still thought she should be a lot less confrontational with the bad guys

"Do you know the waitress? She seeet to the heart of the h, but her response was slightly bitter in tone "Oh, yeah, we go way back Taether I’s to say about me" With a refilled cup of tea, she said, "I’m Alicia Greiston, by the way I’d offer e since we’re supposed to know each other already Rather intio for another kiss" He was only half-joking Except this tiar-sweetened lips of hers

She chuckled "Yeah, like I said, a real lady-killer"

Not in the least bit reluctant to feed into her fantasies of the kind of man he was, he reached over, took her hand, and brushed his lips against the back with a soft caress He swore she melted a little on the seat next to him "Jake Silver, completely at your disposal"

She raised her brows, her lips still iently pulled her hand free of his "Have a gun?"

"Nope" At least not on hierated and said, "That means I’ll have to protect us both now"

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