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Do button on thehappened In another ten seconds, his vision was going to turn as red as his bloodshot eyes after a night spent staring unblinkingly at his ceiling The coffeepot had toowith a plain old ordinary coffeepot that didn’t need little single-serve cups and eighty billion buttons?

“You need to add water,” Elle said from behind him

His rip on his coffee cup That the rasp was a testa That voice He hadn’t stopped hearing both her sweet moans and her subsequent disht

“Here, let s work in the real world where people have to make their own coffee” She slid into the narrow space between him and the wall and removed the clear plastic container from the side of the infernalto her “Excuse me”

Still not looking in her direction, he took a step back and gave her access to the sink Short of closing his eyes like a dog shoving its head under a pillow to avoid soet hi he could do to stop fro her as she stepped in front of hi fro hair spilled down her back in wavy, still daaze followed her as sheto take in the way her jeans hugged her round ass and ulped and stopped wondering about the Hulk-like sturdiness of hishis zipper had been th

“So you put this here, pop in the coffee pod, hit the cup button, and…” Thefallen under her spell,as she turned to face hiods”

The brilliance of her smile activated every oh-shit alarm he had This was not the sa leap off the tallest peak last night He narrowed his eyes, trying to see past the lust and sleep deprivationwith his vision “What’s with the happy helper attitude all of the sudden?”

A flush surged above the V of her sweater, and she nibbled her juicy bottom lip—the one that tasted better than cherries waries”

“As royalty, I doubt you’ve had to offer e in attitude toward him

She shrugged and took her now fulla plu time, and stylists make them all the time, especially for shoppers who don’t do casual”

The reminder of his words to her in the Dylan’s showroo upward before he could stop himself

“Last night was…” She paused, giving hiile smile that looked about to tremble “A shock Really, the whole day was, and I reacted, and acted, badly I’vesecrets I didn’t think about to fro close to anyone was the , including sex, helped me do that, and to hts, no connections”

Fuck He’d acted like she was only a means to an end and not a person He’d kidnapped her—for her own good, of course—and now she was one all horny caveuilt slithered down his spine “You don’t have to tell me this”

“I do” And this tih to h and stilled the quiver “I was a bitch last night, and I’m sorry”

He stiffened, the fore of the royal circle locking his joints into place “It’s not necessary to apologize for not wanting to have sex with me”