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“Maybe for some people it does”

All the breath see” She had to clear her throat, suck in air and try again “Are you saying you feel the same?”

“I want to be your perfect man”

“Youhis sincerity

Howwhat she wanted to hear stemmed from her own insecurities? Why was it so hard for her to accept that thisor someone different to want to be with her?

The ansas the years spent in a fahter of a mother and stepfather who found constant fault with a child too much like her own father for their comfort

“I do”

She nodded, accepting Believing “I’ve never had sex”

Once again she’d ed to shock hins

His whisker-shadowed jaw dropped and dark eyes widened comically “You are twenty-nine”

“I’” She had eleven , even

Not that she thought she was going to iven up on that idea when she realized that even in the academic world, Chanel was a social misfit

“No, I didn’t mean that” But his voice was still laced with surprise and his superior brain was clearly not firing on all cylinders “You’re educated American”

“So?” What in the world did her PhD in cheinity?

“Are you completely innocent?”

Man, did he even realize how that sounded?

And people thought she was old-fashioned “Even if I’d had sex, I would still be innocent Sex isn’t a crime”

“You know that is not what I was referring to”

“No, I know, but innocent? Come on”

The look he was giving her ay too familiar

“I’h “I told you” Had he forgotten?

“You are refreshingly direct” That wasn’t disappointnized

Well, it wasn’t He al If she believed it, and hadn’t she diced to do just that? “Mother calls it ridiculously blunt”

“Your mother does not see you as I do”

“I should hope not”