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All she kneas that when she opened her eyes, Do hers and his face totally relaxed

Yeah She was in love

But she felt too good to care

DOMINIC LAY ON his back, breathing as though he’d just hiked ten h the desert with a twenty-pound pack on his back—on water rations

Damn

First the balcony, now the bed Two hot sessions in less than an hour Hell of abreak

Every tiet any hotter, Lara took it up a notch A few ht kill him

But what a way to go

He couldn’t re this fascinated, this hooked, on a woman before

Hell, he couldn’t re three weeks with the same woman before, either What was it about Lara?

He sure wished he could figure it out

The sooner he did, the sooner he could get his fill and move on

The trouble was, it didn’t see

At this rate, it et his fill

He reached over, his hand rubbing the soft flesh of her back where it dipped

Then, with a deep breath, he s position

“Darab a shower, then head back to base I’ll pick you up around seven for dinner, okay?”

Lara opened her ain

“What?”

She frowned before sliding frorab her robe off the floor Do that no le, she simply didn’t have a bad view

“Is Phillip back yet? Safe?” she asked as she belted the flimsy silk

Dominic debated She’d asked that same question daily since they’d arrived in Coronado It wasn’t as if it was classified infor her

Except that the one She had no reason to think he was protecting her if her brother was safe

Despite the fact that it flew in the face of his plan to give her that family connection, he’d been able to justify it for the first hile the tea But now? Keeping it from her simply made him a creep A desperate creep, at that

Do his hand over the short stubble of his freshly buzzed hair

All of a sudden, he felt very naked

Re in the nude, he offered Lara a char smile

“He’s safe Back on base, even”

He waited for her to ask to see Banks