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It was in the way he knew she needed to be held and cuddled after sex, with his body still inside her, his ar in tandem with hers

“Give me five minutes”

She whirled around and ran upstairs, pushing the voice of reason out of her head as she tuht sight of herself in the mirror over her dresser and paused

Holy hell Was that really her?

Bobbi crossed the roo over the flushed cheeks, excited eyes and messy hair Her stomach rolled with nervous tension and every cell in her body felt as if it was on fire

She touched her mouth and for one brief moes of her eyes It had been so long since she’d felt this way This alive

This out of control

At twenty-five, there was so bittersweet about that

“Oh Bobbi, don’t be so dra up

It was closer to ten minutes later that she made her way back down the stairs Shane here she’d left hiainst the door, his dark eyes settled on her There was no light grin on his face—there was nothing light or easy about him There was only an intensity that she felt like a physical touch

“Ready?” His voice was low, hitting that timbre that always screith her body It rolled over her skin, hot and teasing, and she knew as she gazed up at him, that their ‘deal’ was in full effect There was no way she was not getting soht

For a ers halted as she laced up her boots She just had to be a grownup about it and not let the white noise get in the way The noise that begged for o away She would take what Shane offered and nothing more

A slight s up her snow boots

“I am,” she said airily “Are you?”

She pushed past Shane, yelled goodbye to her father and Gra to ease the heat inside of her