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How could she still hate hiood when he touched her? How could her mind reject him and yet her body came up with a totally different assessment?

“You are bad,” she whispered, voice thick, deep, tinged with a longing she couldn’t reconcile herself to

“Youone cheek as his lips brushed the other

“No”

“Mmmm”

She squeezed her eyes shut as silver streaks of sensation raced up and down her spine “I’ood,” she insisted

She felt rather than heard hih softly, felt the rise and fall of his chest, the ”

She was just about to protest when his handsher face up to him

The air caught in Tally’s throat and she stared up at him wide-eyed This was as fantastic as it ful and like a deer caught in headlights, she waited, waited, spellbound for disaster to hit

And it did

His head dropped, his lips covered hers and in that instant hisas she gave in to his warmth and scent and skin

His kiss was again right, absolutely right, and maybe she couldn’t marry him, and maybe she wouldn’t live with hi She’d hoped it was just the first kiss that she responded to, hoped that having kissed him once, she would have beco it was even better

Tally felt his arainst hi

It ine, that soht now, like this, she’d found the only place she needed to be

And like that, cold reality intruded, and Tally pulled abruptly away

She stared at hih hazy eyes“No”

“No what?”