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Their eyes tangled and hers dipped involuntarily to his mouth She heard and felt the sharp intake of his breath and pulled back, heart beating fast

For a second there

If he touched her she didn’t knohat she would do She suspected the worst She dreamt of his hands on her body and hiswas different now, and she refused to let herself slip back into letting her body rule her head

‘I love all the stuff, Sergio,’ she said, regaining her co to admire one of the table lamps ‘The colours are perfect Very warm Just my kind of style’

Sergio, as busy trying to subdue the sort of erection that ached to be touched, barely heard her

‘Upstairs’ His voice was harsher than he’d intended ‘A quick look round and then we can leave I have the keys and the house is ready for you to move in whenever you are’

Susie took the hint Whatever charge had sprung up between thehly as she did Thinking that did so to her,down to take in all the bedrooms Four of them And at the very end

She stopped dead in her tracks and gazed in wonder at the studio which overlooked the back garden and through which streaht from s that covered the expanse of nearly one wall

‘Will it do?’

She turned to him and smiled shyly ‘I have a studio’

She explored every glorious inch of it while he stood by the door, his dark eyes following her every small movement She loved the house but here, in this studio, she was like a kid in a candy shop

‘The light’s absolutely perfect,’ she enthused, pausing to ad out of the‘And the workbenchthe double sink’ She admired both for a while ‘I can put my easel just thereI won’t have to sit at that awful table with a light next to ht’

‘Bad for a pregnant woruffly

They’d been politely circling one another for so long now that he hadn’t realised howher truly relaxed He’d never wanted to kiss her as much as he did just at that uy He knehat the outcoet there involved depths of patience he had never known he possessed