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But then she hastily resisted the urge What’s done is done, was her veheet drunk on a lot of tequila and then knock herself out with sleeping pills just to get through tonight, but she’d do whatever necessary to keep her froht back to Dean

Sheri was afraid she ht not really kno to do without him

That night was as bad as she’d feared She knew it that mo his lips close to hers Her lids fluttered closed and she couldn’t stop her soft hs and lifted thes

“Look into ers under her chin lifted her head up and she opened her eyes only to lose herself in the vast grays of his stare

“You’re mine Your body, heart and soul are ainst her lips

Her eyes were tear-stained as she woke up from the vivid dream, her arms clutched around her pillow and not Dean’s warm, muscular frame His husky words echoed all around her emptiness and she knew he’d spoken the truth: she was his and she was never going to be able to forget it – or him

She already guessed Dean would be sohi would be a blow to his ego, but Sheri didn’t flatter herself that Dean would come after her

She’d been his assistant long enough to kno his mind worked Women didn’t leave hiht be cross that she’dhiain, but that would be it He’d brush further thought of her aside and in a ould possibly forget she ever existed Men like Dean Cooper never felt or suffered any sense of loss when it caer to take the vacant spot

The fact that they’d even been lovers wouldn’t really ht even feel a sense of relief that she’d spared hiot too attached Oh, Sheri thought of all possible ways her leaving would not change one single iota of Dean’s existence

Her suspicions were confir Dean on TV and in azines, alith different women on his arlitch in his existence And with Dean being so high profile, it was never hard finding out which country or city he happened to be in at any given tili the finals live at the Australian Open, his name and face were never far from her notice

She could simply switch it all off, but she didn’t She already kno deeply engrained she was over Dean She ed her nury for any kind of news about him

Which was pathetic really, considering she’d been the one to leave