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“There is no but, Caleb I’ with this—what did you call it? This ‘situation’”

“While I was oblivious to it” He could feel a little curl of anger fors me to a question Why didn’t you contact nant?”

“For starters, I didn’t know your last na about you, except that you lived in Texas What we did … what I did …” Color striped her cheeks “I still can’t believe it And believe me, I’m not proud of that”

I in the nore what he felt and then the realization that she wanted him as much as he wanted her, and then her in his arms, hot and wild in his arms …

“I don’t regret that night,” he said, his voice husky “Neither should you”

She stared at him Then she shot to her feet

“I don’t want to talk about it”

Caleb rose, too He stood beside her, too close, too et

“That’s e’re here,” he said “To talk about it”

“About—about the baby Not about—”

“I never stopped thinking about you,” he said “I couldn’t get you out of my mind”

“Stop!” Sage closed her eyes, as if that o away “I don’t want to—to—”

“Hell, no! Neither do I” He put his hand in her hair, turned her face up to his; hair fell in a silk swirl over his fingers “But I can’t stop it Memories of you How you tasted How you felt Hoas, to be inside you …”

She slapped at his hand

He clasped her face Raised it to his