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“It’s not about you” She twirled her hair in her finger “It’s got nothing to do with nothing Please hear ritted teeth, “there is no problem I am perfectly happy and ready to have Master Aidan rock my world”

Porter shook his head in htened “Let ed?”

She sighed with exaggeration “No, it’s all peachy” At the narrowing of his eyes, she added, to put a dead stop to the conversation, “Only happy ether But whatever I feel is mine to feel I don’t need—or want—you or Aidan to worry about a problem that doesn’t exist” She inhaled a sharp breath and s”

Aidan needs fixing!

Porter gave her a long look before his chin lifted “All right, Cora, I hear you That’s all I needed to hear”

Cora’ssense was good Yes, she hid her feelings about Aidan, but she was okay with that It was not a problem

Porter lifted his feet onto the coffee table, spreading his arms out over the back of the couch “When do you plan to tell Aidan that you’re in love with him?”

Cora’s mouth dropped open

Porter chuckled “I suspected when Aidan toldon” He tapped her mouth shut “One look at you and I see it written all over your face”

She gulped “I …”

“Cora”

The breath she held left her in a rush She turned to Master Aidan, who loo that he hadn’t heard what Porter had said Though she was relieved, his heated gaze stormed like fire across her flesh

In one second, the reason her relationship had ended with Porter appeared He’d never stirred desire with si look She loved her friends, but this—her connection to Master Aidan—held no beginning and no end

Aidan’s shadowy eyes blazed, alert and focused “You’re with me now”

Now that she had tasted passion with every sense of the word, there was no turning back “Yes, sir”