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“But you will”

I couldn’t help the smile “Okay You win”

“I had every intention of winning” The dark tinge around those words made me fear them even more than before “Now, tell ”

I gasped Not so much at his demand, but at the way he so deeply aroused me

Still, I hedged, fighting for at least a tiny patch of safe ground “You’re not seriously asking a new employee about her underwear”

“No I’ you”

“Why?”

“Because I want the visual, damn it”

I sighed He had lust flashing through my body with such little effort on his part I was so out ofas he pulled me slowly to his side Even ht

“I meant, why me?”

He was quiet again I wondered if I exasperated him, but then he said, “I can’t really explain it You cah the door of the bar at the resort and rabbing my attention when it was so set on business I watched you cross to your wedding party, every single thing about you instantly registering indeep into my mind”

He let out a sexy, irritable sound—like he couldn’t quite figure out his own reaction tomy skin

Continuing, he said, “Your hair, the sway of your hips, the way you carried yourself, those seriously gorgeous legs … I didn’t even get a good look at your face until you glanced over your shoulder, and yet I was hooked And when you finally turned toward me … Christ You stole my breath”

The air rushed fro at ”

“I didn’t like hiain “I could see you were uncomfortable You flinched—I didn’t like that he’d done that to you The tat guy, either”