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But while she was co put anywhere, there was clearly one area that e to push at her, just a little

“You’re the first wo with me she had to remark on it every couple of days”

He was rewarded by the flood of color that bled into her cheeks “That’s not…I’…”

“Onea step closer to her, “that you protest too much”

She pulled Ana in tighter to her chest, a tiny, living shield “Hey now, that is not true I protest just enough for a wo with a playboy”

“Playboy,” he said “Such a strange label, and not one I’ve ever felt applied to me”

“You change lovers often enough”

“The dates I go to events with are not my lovers I am very discreet with my lovers And selective”

She cleared her throat “Well, then, I doubt I have anything to worry about If you’re as selective as you say, I mean”

Paige felt like aze She didn’t knohat had possessed her to bait hiatory about her appeal She are of how far short she fell when it came to sexual allure

The problem was, it wasn’t looks, not specifically It wasn’t the way she dressed She’d actually o; it was just that…when they got that serious look, like theyagain, with so so her…she hadn’t been willing to take the risk

Which hy she really hadn’t bothered with dates for a long ti herself sorted out was her top priority after all Finding her way And anyway, she didn’t need a hundred guys She only needed the one right guy And she was certain that one right guy would look nothing like Dante Romani

Which was fine Looks weren’t everything after all The guy didn’t have to have a square jaw, and golden skin Or a broad chest with incredible muscles that could not be hidden by the dress shirts he wore He didn’t have to look like the essence of temptation wrapped in a custos than that

Like…way more

She was sure of it

“Is that what you think?” he asked

Sory, wild almost, as far from cool, caline

“I…obviously,” she said, her throat suddenly dry