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Under her voice, she said, "Whatever - I juan soleht" Flustered, she stepped over an ant line, studiously regarding the leaves they carried

"It's true, Mariketa Though it is a shaet a chance to pay more attention to your pretty arse"

"Shh!" she hissed in a whisper "They'll hear you!"

Chapter 16

"Hearso lustily? Do you always make so much noise?"

Her face flalanced over his shoulder with raised brows She slowed to let the others take ain

Fine, she could play She turned to him, and in a monotone voice, she said, "Oh, baby Oh, Bowen It was you Only you"

He grinned, and the sightriver, and the sun was shining, and she'd just had two orgaset caught up in his palpable excitement, because she kneasn't due only to what they'd just done, but what he expected them to do

Yet every tier toward hi as he asked Rydstrole pop was Somehow, she knew MacRieve hadn't asked out ofto learn, for her

And the si around him Even when she'd despised him, she'd somehow been buoyed by his presence Now that she didn't despise hiladdened her

Fro, do you always coave a half laugh "De I ithout But I'rabbed her hand andto e a beat, she said, "Why, Bowen, I do believe you're flirting with iving it a heft that made him rock his hips to her hand, she released hih, he said, "Iif you doona know for certain" In a dry tone, he added, "Maybe I should be more direct?"

She couldn't help it - she chuckled, but covered it with a cough She was supposed to be the one who could charainst her will

Was she so easy that aattraction to hiive their past? As she inwardly answered herself, she thought, Then why fight it? Mari had never been one to fight battles,ones

He leaned over her and murmured at her ear, "Show me those bonny brsts"

"You just saw theh she was secretly pleased by how much he see, you'd never wear a top again"

She was biting the inside of her cheek to keep fro but didn't want him to see, so she quickened her pace "Shouldn't you be concerned with getting le?"

"Come, then, remind me what I' And Mari realized this was kind of fun She half-expected hi at her ears And she suspected she'd love it