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She laughed, pulling his arate to the patio “Come on, it’ll be fun”

He gave her a wicked glance as she locked the gate behind the suit”

“What a coincidence Neither did I” Lauren tried to

sound playful and confident, but her voice quivered She’d laid everything on the line, co back to Texas and Sky—and she’d just handed him an open invitation to break her heart

He was like a wildpenned Even if she could rope hie to be free draw him away?

He undressed without a trace of self-consciousness, tossing his boots and clothes onto one of the poolside chairs His splendid body gleamed like a blade as he cut the water in a clean dive

Seconds later his head broke the surface He was grinning, water drops strea like liquid diamonds off his ebony hair “Not bad,” he said “I hope you’re co in”

Lauren had stripped down to her underclothes His expression changed subtly as she undid the front clasp of her bra Letting it fall away, she slid her panties off her hips to drop around her ankles He lay back in the water, watching her

“Don’t move an inch,” he said “Let me look at you”

Lauren felt the heat rise in her body, flooding her face with color She are of the way a lock of her long hair curled to frairls she kneere getting breast implants, she’d become overly aware of her aze was fixed

Shying away, shedive into the pool and cah to touch with her toes She held out her arms “Come here,” she said

Kicking into the shallows, he gathered her close The feel of his cool, bare skin against hers was heaven They kissed hungrily, Lauren nibbling his lower lip and thrusting with her tongue Their bodies pressed, legs tangling deliciously as his sex rose and hardened against her She wiggled closer, her blood racing

“Lauren” There was an edge to his voice He disentangled hi on her shoulders

She stared at him “What—?”

“Listen toto ht”