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“I keep both caffeinated and decaf on hand,” she offered anyway

“I’ll take the caffeine I have a feeling we’ll be up late tonight” The look he gave her was hot enough to ma

Suddenly, it felt as if all the air had been sucked out of her apartet our tea”

Heon her bare arm “Don’t run from me”

“I’ so breathless?

His hand slid up her ar bursts of sensation along every nerve ending in its wake, landing proprietarily against the small of her back “I like this dress”

“Thank you” So of their own volition, no for them

“You’re wearing makeup”

She nodded No point in denying it

“I didn’t think you ever did”

“I stopped, except for special occasions, after I moved away from home”

“An odd form of rebellion”

“Not when you have a e perfection I wore rade on, the whole works”

“And you hated it”

“I did”

“Yet you are wearing it now” The hand not resting on her back ca MIT professor?”

“No”

“I didn’t think so” Then Dely confident kisses

And she couldn’t think at all

Sparks of pleasure kindled where their lips ht It was only a kiss He was barely touching her, just holding her, really And yet she felt like they were in thelove