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Even the friends she’d made at the hospital, she’d always kept the anyone close But nowone of them had to take that first step One of them had to clean the slate and start over

“Can we try to be friends, Zafir? For the sake of our child?”

Silence beat in tune with the thud of her heart

Slow a her system into stunned shock One tip of that sensuousa crease in his cheek “Brood horse, Lauren?”

A strange sound—a coasp fell froet out of the whole speech I just gave you?”

“So do we have a breeding program in place after you deliver this one?”

“You did not just callyou’ve gone erated patience, his ram? Really?”

His jaas rough with stubble, there was tiredness in the lines of his face All she wanted to do rap her arms around him, to tell him that she understood him a little better now, that she understood the pain he hid so very well But he wouldn’t welcoesture of affection

All he’d ever wanted, could ever want, fro

“If you’re the brood horse, that makes me what? Your stud?”

The twitch of his ht in his eyes irresistible “My very own Arabian stallion?” she said He raised a brow in that infuriating way that he did

Hisse in his dery even, but noas joking

No, he was flirting with her How? Why? Was he seducing her with that smile and those awful puns?

“I asked for that, yes?”

She exhaled long “I seem to cause you—”