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He remained perfectly still while every male cell in his body jerked to attention From where he stood he could see the soles of her feet and a band of creamy skin above the pyjama’s waistband What the hell was she up to?

Then he heard her croon softly, her voicein his groin as the co out, herthe elastic lower…

‘Problem?’

The wiggling stopped, then resumed at a frantic pace acco sound of fabric tearing ‘Ouch!’

Didi appeared clutching an angry armful of spiked fur, dae for her elfin face, reain of that pixie

‘I didn’t hear you,’ she said with a breathy catch to her voice that hts, hotter bodies

‘Obviously’

‘Charlie escaped Um…there’s a tiny claw hole—a couple actually…in the back of your sofa’ She closed her teeth over her bottom lip, then smiled up at him ‘Lucky for us they’re not where you can see them, isn’t it?’

The way she did that…artfully innocent or cunningly cute? He shook his head ‘Lucky for Charlie’

Her sainst her, she rose ‘If you have a pair of nail triht now’

The shapeless flannelette swa but it had the opposite effect A sliver of protectiveness—or lust—snaked through his veins and coiled low in his body

It had to be lust