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Chapter 1
“Miss Jensen, I can’t find Gerry!”
I groaned and closed my eyes briefly Briefly as in, like, two seconds This was because I’ in front of me and you can’t look away fro ould happen
Case in point? Gerry, the classrooerbil was now MIA For the second time this week
Remind me why I became a teacher? Oh Yeah…because I wanted to shape the mini-minds of the future And because I love kids
Seriously, I do Most days, anyway Which is why I’d gone through cos hair Last year was the first year I’d taught, so I felt pretty confident that I had er on the pulse and all that shit
Turns out I rong Naood idea to have a classrooive hi an escape artist; it’s le and twitch when they hold hiet the idea
I clapped ht, kids Settle down and sit down, please Maybe then we’ll be able to see where…”
I sighed as a muffled scream sounded from the room next door Guess we knehere Gerry went, huh?
That pretty much set the tone for the rest of le star in the sky that it was Friday and, not toweekend because of Labor Day Which I had dearly been looking forward to, because I’d get to spend some time with my family
I pulled into the garage attached tothe button to shut the world out behindwith lesson plans and all that good stuff and headed inside
Dropping everything onto the kitchen table, I walked directly into the living rooracefully, not caring thatto anyone anted to see them
The next thing I kneas being shaken awake, a voice like sinful velvet teasingme from the arms of Morpheus
“Leah,” Ian said, softly
I blinked up at hi fro hi out thein shock
“Holy shit, what ti as I noted the street lights popping on against the darkening sky
Ian chuckled andhis arainst his chest “Seriously? That’s all I get from you after I haven’t seen you all day? You try to break my nose and stare out the , no hello kiss, no, ‘hey honey, I missed you like crazy and can’t wait to suck your face off all night long,’ nothing? Huh”
I rolled s were around his waist, my arms were laced around his neck, and racefully, co this by now
“Hainst his mouth “Is this better?”
I parted ue, silently asking to be let inside He co froues tangling sinuously in a slow, sensual dance
His hands squeezed convulsively on the taut cheeks ofme feel every inch of hardness hidden behind the deni flesh at the apex of hs