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He grabbed a tissue, moistened it under the tap and dabbed at the wound ‘I’ or tetanus but don’t let that spoil your evening’

‘Let’s have a look’ She slid off the bench but he was scraping meat from the bottom of his shoe and she couldn’t see ‘Where’s your first-aid box?’

‘I don’t need first aid Or htened and met her eyes ‘What just happened here—’

‘Was a kiss, Cameron’

At least that hat she’d thought it was But she’d never thought a simple kiss by the kind of s and leave you in need of an oxygen mask Burn you from the inside out until you were cinders Send your heart spinning in a thousand different directions until you didn’t knohich as up The answer: it wasn’t a simple kiss Which only led to another question: as it?

But she was hardly going to tell hin nonchalance As if she exchanged saliva with aled ‘It was fun, Cameron’

‘Fun’ His toneher i away clothes, flesh and façade until she understood theof naked to the core

It took all her strength to drag her eyes away ‘My guess would be you thought so too,’ sheopen cupboards ‘About that first-aid box…’

But she could feel his gaze tracking herheat down her spine, her bottohs

Suddenly he was behind her She felt his shirt brush her sleeve, his breath against her bare arm as she reached for the next cupboard Her heart rate, barely back to so normal, picked up pace once more

Then he leaned closer, the hard planes of his chest abrading her spine, her nape, the back of her head as he reached to the top shelf She could s, and, beneath that, the scent of soap and ht, and a few nights hts more