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prologue

it wasn’t a party she wanted to go to, but Raven had pro there meant she would, of course, run into Reno Reno, with the softest gray eyes she had ever seen, the iven a man As she left the bathroom, her body washed, scrubbed, lotioned, and perfumed, she assured herself it wasn’t for Reno

But she knew better

Her body knew better

She wanted to come up with an excuse to stay home, but she knew she wouldn’t It had been weeks since she had seen him and she missed him

They were friends, she told herself She was allowed toJust because her heart ha hiht, it didn’texcept he could turn her on

That was all it meant

She threw herself on the bed, turning on her back to stare at the ceiling overhead It wasn’t the ceiling she saw, though She closed her eyes and it was Reno she saw His head lowering, his lips so full and sensual, taking hers

She was shocked at the moan that passed her lips, the heaviness that filled her body, the liquid warhs His hands were broad, callused Hoould they feel ers, then his tongue, rasped over her nipples?

She licked her finger and thuht he would do, and had to bite her lip to keep fro out at the pleasure

“Yes,” she whispered instead “That’s what I want, only better”

And it would be better His fingers would be hotter, rougher,

Her legs shifted on the bed as her hand moved down her midriff

Pathetic, her mind jeered

She could fantasize, she told herself fiercely That’s all it was, just a fantasy

She touched the bare flesh between her thighs and a broken sigh fell from her lips

God, she wanted him

And she could have hi her for nearly two years now Every ti in the storaze And that didn’t count the stolen kisses, the knowledge that one day soon, he was going to start chasing her in earnest She kneas co

If she fought him at all

He liding along the silken juices that eased their way until they rasped against her swollen clit

“Reno,” she whispered his nary as her body felt

But it was Reno she saw His touch, his fingers that stroked the sensitive little bud that kept her on the edge of pleasure, her release a strangled breath away as she i, probing She gasped, her fingers ainst her clit as she felt her release peaking