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There’s a lot le into place than there was six years ago I’ve gained twenty-five pounds and gone up a cup size since then, and the top of the suit is downright scandalous I also have a pooch below my belly button that wasn’t there before—a testimony to my love of cheese in all its wondrous forms—but Mason doesn’t seem to mind that there’s more of me to love

Quite the opposite, in fact

The look in his eyes is enough to make my heart race

He’s not looking atathe wants to taste, to savor, and, eventually, to devour His eyes ski every inch of me on fire I swear I can feel that look, like soft, hot lips trailing overmore

It’s that darned almost-kiss that’s done this tobut how much I want to pounce on Mason I’m sure his kisses can’t be nearly as wonderful as I remember

But then…what if they are?

Stop thinking about kissing, psycho!

I shiftbetween them; Mason makes a pained sound low in his throat and jerks his attention back to the water

“So?” he asks, his voice rougher than it was a fewall this “not touching” as torturous as I a else you’d like to ask me?”

I take a long, cold drink of le it will clear irls he dated in New York while he was in med school If he’s to be believed, there were three total, all of whom he only dated for a few months each, and none of the relationships evolved beyond the friends-with-benefits stage

Learning Mason has been intimate with other women wasn’t easy to hear, but it wasn’t a surprise either He wasn’t a virgin e met He never pressurede dated, but I kne ress to the next level I wanted the sa e had left theirwith sex beforeto anyone, let alone someone I love and respect as much as my sweet mama

Still, there were nights, back when Mason and I were dating, when it wasn’t easy to tell hihts when I wanted to pull hi until ere as close as two people could get

I alht he proposed, in fact

Instead, I went hoh dealing with Mason’s abandonht before, it would have been even