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She eyed the duvet, then rolled her eyes Ridiculous, to sit here with her teeth chattering A blanket was a blanket, nothing more, and she reached for it, yanked it over herself and all but moaned as she wrapped up in its voluminous folds

But it wasn’t enough Fivein

So what?

Was she a wuss or a woman?

Not a wuss, she thought determinedly She’d practically raised herself, her father a bullying drunk who barked orders, her mother a pathetic creature who followed those orders blindly Soh school so low on the educational toteraduated from it with a scholarship to Columbia University, not even she’d believed it And when her major in Business had turned out to be a e to talk the Powers That Be into letting her keep the scholarship despite switching her major to Anthro?

“Me,” she said into the silence

Spending the night in a chair? A piece of cake So what if it was a little chilly? She just had to stop thinking soto her…

About Jesse Jesse, the enigma

Good looking Well spoken And heroic He had a spit-and-polish unifor roo hell-bent for leather without a saddle

She’d never seen hinificent Whatever he wore, whoever he was, Special Forces officer or Native-Aeous And sexy And spectacularly sexy…

Sienna moaned and shut her eyes Sleep She needed sleep Maybe if she turned off the lantern…

“Woman or wuss?” she said briskly, and she reached for the Coleed the room into darkness

Jesse ake, pacing the living roo fire

He hadn’t noticed it was dying How could he when his brain was focused on what had just happened? On what he’d done, da himself on a woman who didn’t want him…

Except she did

Oh, yes She’d wanted him as much as he’d wanted her