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She risked a glance up into his eyes to find hi her closely Did she feel familiar in his arms? She was shorter without her heels on but

Oh, get over yourself, Ruby Jane He doesn’t knoho you are so forget it Have a laugh

But she couldn’t have a laugh, not with his heat surrounding her and setting her pulse racing, not with his face so close to hers she could see the beginnings of his beard co in, and not with his scent, spicy andher brain

All she could do was rehtly rough, his lips war sent back in tiain She wanted to feel the power of his need again, his hunger for her She’d never felt like that in ashort of addictive

No ets a woman he’s kissed before At least he doesn’t if he has any integrity

Did he re her? Would it come back to him if she was to reach up and kiss him now?

Inwardly shocked to realise where her thoughts were leading her, Ruby jerked back Kissing Sa This erous to her equilibrium She knew it as surely as she knew her own name

‘You okay, angel?’ He drew her closer as she stuht as his warm breath skittered across the sensitive skin of her neck That nao as well

Shaking off the unwanted ainst his effect on her

‘No, I’ her first sane decision of the night and stepping out of his aroers as she rushed from the room

A stone terrace loo view of the harbour beyond, and Ruby headed for it, swiftlysome distance down a narrow terraced ay lined with fairy lights that wound around the side of the house