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"I've been trying to call for over an hour, but the storht"

"Yes, I know," she murmured

"I was calling to find out if you knohat ti, I was supposed to meet him at nine and he isn't here yet," Kurt said

Her gaze slid to the clock on the bedstand It was a quarter past ten She sed, unable to tell Kurt that Rolt was still sleeping, with her

"No No, I don't know He ht have overslept" Alanna allowed a portion of the truth to slip out

"There were quite a few trees downed by the stor soested

"Yes If I hear from him before he sees you, Kurt, I'll have him call," she promised quietly

"Thanks, I—"

Alanna never heard the rest of Kurt's sentence A coolness bathed her stoers fir in sharply, she turned partially on her back todark blue of eyes His weight shifted so that he was pressing her shoulders on to the mattress

"Kurt, this is Rolt" Even as he spoke into the telephone, histhe corner of her eyes, the curve of her cheek and jaw,Alanna beyond words Kurt must have been as stunned as she was "Are you there, Kurt?" Rolt inquired with faint ainst her skin

Teasingly he traced the outline of her lips They parted tre caress Alanna moved weakly in protest, e love to her while talking to Kurt and that she should be letting hiht wouldn't release her She twisted her face into the pillow and he shifted his attention to the vulnerable curve of her throat

Distantly she heard the hollow sound of Kurt's voice coh the wires, but she was too swa sensations to hear his words above her quickened breathing Gooseflesh shivered deliciously over her skin as Rolt found a particularly sensitive spot on her neck

"Sorry about breaking our appointht and Alanna was trying to be the considerate wife by letting hed softly against her throat, sendingdown her spine

"Rolt, don't," she whispered achingly

"Let's change it to one-thirty Will that work out for you?" The fiery trail of histhe shadowy holloeen her breasts, then choosing the rounded curve of one for closer inspection An uncontrollable shudder of desire quaked through her, and her fingers curled into the muscled bronze of his naked shoulders "And you'd better tell Mrs Blake I'll be unavoidably detained until noon"