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‘Iyes’

‘Do you always blush like that?’

She shook her head She felt as though she was being backed off a cliff by a stalking wolf It is only Edge, stop acting like a green girl who’s never seen a e was any man He was by far the most attractive man she’d ever known, even er

And she was married to him

‘A you uncomfortable?’ It was the hesitant note that reached her

‘Not uncomfortable uncomfortable I’m rubby, aggravating girl’

‘Not so one and her heat escalated, like the desert approaching midday He hesitated and added, ‘And not the last tio either’

‘Nobut that was my fault You were kinder than I deserved’

‘Kind I don’t re kind’

‘No You were angry with ht to be’

His hands fisted and his ht She wished she’d kept her own mouth shut She hadn’t wanted to chase away his smile and the ever-so-faint hint of flirtatiousness

A coil of hair fell over her ear and she tucked it back, his gaze following her motion

‘How do those pins ers touched her hair briefly and she tried to smile

‘Badly And sometimes painfully I prefer it dressed simply, but Janet insisted this occasion deserved rather ement, but he moved her hand away

‘Let me’

Edge proceeded with meticulous care, as if there was a written treatise on how to undress hair in the least painful but ht her hair slid down, settling on her shoulders and then rushing down her back

‘You s Beautiful’ He breathed in the word, his fingers fanning through her hair and letting it fall over her shoulder The scent of the bath oils hich she’d washed away the desert joined the jase that was as foreign and faether, stirred by his hands as they ently in her hair

‘It doesn’t have to be tonight, Salory spread on my pillow On me’