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"No" She jammed tomatoes into a plastic sack

"Careful, they'll bruise"

"I want to bruise you," she hissed over the stack of red fruits

Chase's grin widened

"Will you quit s!"

He didn't "Bothers you, doesn't it?"

"Everything about you bothers me" She dropped her selection into the cart and moved on

Chase rounded the bin and dogged her heels "What bothers you the most? That I'm the father of our baby or that you're attracted to me?"

"Is your ego always so overblown, Mr Madison?"

He caught the cart, keeping her near, and Tessa felt her insides shift and twist And it had nothing, absolutely nothing to do with her baby Those disgustingly sculptured shoulders of his looked bigger and more muscular than when he was in her shop on Saturday, his eyes a darker blue and unspeakably inti it without touching As if they weren't in theattention, for heaven's sake

"Adh clenched teeth, his gaze si "—this assault on the senses, the blood, every tiet close"

"Sexual attraction is hardly the basis for a relationship—" Oh, what made her admit that?

"Aha So you have thought about it"

He was grinning again, the rat "No" Her reddening cheeks contradicted her

"Liar"

"I' Now, leave ht beside her, nodding to the eavesdroppers and interested customers

"I'm here, Tessa, to stay Get used to it" Half threat, half coaxing

"Not a chance" She wouldn't look at hi item after item into her cart