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He put his hands in his pockets, rocked back on his heels, lifted expressive dark brows and with a grin he said, "Well, not all over"
"Oh, that’s disgusting," she returned, disapproval sounding loud
"Well, it’s not nice to talk irlfriends"
"I bet she looked great in a string bikini," Annie said with a snort
"Just unbelievable," he said, clearly taunting her "Noould you be so jealous? You don’t even know poor, thin Susanna For all you know, she’s a sweet, caring, genuine person and I was horrible to her" And he said all this with a sly smile
"I am certainly not jealous! Curious, but not jealous!"
"Green as a bullfrog," he accused
"Oh, bloody hell Listen, I’rabbed her purse and jacket and whirled out of the kitchen And got lost She found herself in the wide hall that led to the bedrooreat room, then to the kitchen "Where the hell is the door?"
He swept an ar that superior s for the door
When she got to her car, she thought, well, that was perfectly awful What’s h her She was attracted to him, and because she knew there had probably been oad her into sorotesque and envious remarks about the only one she knew of, Susanna The child-woman who obviously had a little butt and nice rack Why in the world would she do that? What did she care?
It probably had so a four-thousand-square-foot custom home, beautifully furnished, across the compound from a spacious stable with a couple of horse trailers her dad would have killed for Well, as one to expect from a veterinary practice that served so many, over such a wide area? And not a new practice, either, but a mature one--probably forty years old Established Lucrative
She’d grown up in a three-bedroom, hundred-year-old farmhouse Her three brothers shared a bedrooet it for a second They all shared one very srown up and had never been jealous a day in her life--ould she be now? Could it be that in addition to all that, she’d never gone to special, private schools, never worn custo lessons orfeet and a less-than-memorable bustline "Oh, for God’s sake, Annie," she said to herself "Since when have you even thought about those things!"
How long had she been sitting here in her car? Long enough to get cold, that was how long Well, it was tio back in there and just tell hiirls ns exactly one pair of high heels she can barely walk in, it just rubbed her the wrong way hearing about the kind of woet the attention of one of the county’s few bachelors Not that she wanted his attention, but just the saain She wasn’t usually emotional Or irrational
She walked back into the still-open garage, up to the back door and gave a short tap It flew open He reached out and grabbed her wrist, pulled her roughly into the house, put his arainst the kitchen wall just inside the door, and kissed her! His mouth came down on hers so fiercely, with such dominance and confidence, her eyes flew open in shock Then he began to ainst the ith his wide, hard chest, his big hands running up and down her rib cage, over her hips
She couldn’t move She couldn’t raise her arms or let her eyes drift closed or even kiss back She held her breath What the hell…?
He finally lifted his lips off hers and said, "You like me I knew it"