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Her lashes fluttered shut as his mouth moved over her lips, war need

Thrilling to it, Dallaswithin

Her hands slid over the tapered fir the co of muscle and sinew Then, and only then, did she feel the circling of his arainst him

The kiss deepened seereedy Everything swirled together, arching and straining, striving for sorily over her cheeks, eyes, and brow, Dallas pulled in a tree somewhere in her throat

“This is so I’ve wanted to do

,” Quint admitted, “almost from the moment I laid eyes on you”

“What stopped you?” But Dallas knew she had, at least in the beginning A eh the attraction had been there from the start

Quint raised his head, his fingers tunneling into her hair as his gaze wandered over her face in a kind of visual caress “It didn’t seee” He smiled crookedly “Then you went and involved yourself anyway I’ll never forget how you stormed out here that day”

She reuish—but for an entirely different reason “Why did you kissto renew contact with him and shut out the fear, Dallas rubbed her lips over his chin, ignoring the scrape of his whiskers

“I don’t know,” Quint er was all I ever seemed to arouse in you, and I wanted exactly the opposite”

“You definitely got yourout of nowhere like that, it scared me a little”

It still did when she tried to think beyond this h to consider what toh to savor the here and now

“I knew I’d scared you with that kiss I—”

“Shhh” She pressed two fingers to his lips “None of that matters Not now”

Her lips were quick to take the place of her silencing fingers His arhtened around her as histhem whole