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A thousand stars shone down on him and the full ars He’d just located them when a splash turned his head toward the water There was a shadon there

Someone was at the boathouse

More intrigued than anything, Teague tossed his cigars back into the compartment where he’d stowed them and on silent feet, moved across the deck and down the stairs

It was so bright that it didn’t take much for his eyes to adjust and even before he hit the dock, he kneho it was out there

Sabrina

She was sitting at the end of the dock, dangling her feet in the water as the soft breeze of the lake lifted her hair into a cloud around her shoulders She turned slightly and dragged some of that hair off her face She was so damn small So delicate

A powerful need erupted inside him, and yet wasn’t it was a need that had been there for days? A need he’d been trying to push back

Silently he ue didn’t stop until he

was inches from her, and hell, that honeysuckle scent surrounded Sabrina It rode the wind and he inhaled a heady shot of it

For several long e of the dock and it was the only noise in his ears He couldn’t take his eyes off her and when she pushed back a tangle of hair, his eyes fell to the exposed skin at her neck

He wanted to taste her there

He took another step forward—not even thinking—and then stopped hierous Why in hell was he conte ho had two kids?

He couldn’t be good for the time Even before Syria

“Are you going to join ht?”

Her voice was soft and she spoke haltingly, as if unsure of herself Her shoulders were hunched a bit and she looked so da inside him