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“And you’ll teach ood’ Tell me, Dante, what else will you teach enerous breasts—and a rush of heat assailed hinore

The desire to lean in and trace her lips with his fingertip, with his tongue, was nearly too strong for him to overcome But he would He would keep control, as he always did

He took one last, lingering look, at her pink lips “That’s a very dangerous question, Paige,” he said “Very dangerous”

CHAPTER FOUR

THAT’S a very dangerous question

Yes, it had been a dangerous question Only Paige hadn’t realized just how dangerous until it had come out of her mouth And she was certain that Dante didn’t realize howshe would need

Oh, dear

Just thinking about it again made her feel hot, all over And that was exactly why she wasn’t going to think about her futile, one-sided attraction anymore

She looked at the clock and shifted in her chair Genevieve was already here, and Ana had been happily passed off to her It hadn’t taken the little girl iver and the tere happily playing on the rug in the living room

Paige sighed and realized that she was jiggling her leg She stopped herself Her little nervous habit wasn’t a good look with the long, silky gown she earing

Yes, she earing a dress, to go on a date Which was soirl that men went after She was the screwup, the funny one The one with a pink stripe in her hair, although Dante was putting the kibosh on that

She didn’t get dressed up in slinky gowns to go to fancy charity dinners with billionaires She also didn’t get engaged to billionaires Oh, yeah, she didn’t really h that was now in her future All because her stupid, impulsive brain had spit out the most ridiculous lie at the worst time

Desperation wasn’t her best state Shethese days When she’d been a kid, all the way up into high school, it had been really bad She was always saying stupid things and e herself, which was one reason she’d opted for class clown rather than trying to be sexy or cool or anything like that Letting it go, instead of wishing she could be so she wasn’t, had been much easier

Or rather, as the case had been, she’d had one incredibly defining, huet that there were certain guys, who liked certain kinds of girls And she was not one of them

There was a heavy knock at her door and she scra and wrap She scurried into the living roo a kiss onto Ana’s soft, fuzzy head