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Not giving her breath but stealing hers away

“You think threateningto convincedirectly at him

He stared into her eyes for long moments, that intensity back, then he nodded “I know it is”

Her eyes widened at his confidence

“You want me as much as I want you, McKenzie I’m not sure why you feel you need to say no or not date me, but I’m one hundred percent positive that it’s not because you don’t want to be with me or that you didn’t enjoy that kiss as much as I did”

“That’s cocky of you”

“Honesty isn’t cockiness”

“Why should I want to be with you?”

He frowned “We get along well at the clinic and hospital You make me s that neither of us is looking for a long-teruy”

“Who I ith,” she reminded

“That’s really your hang-up? That ork together?”

Sinking her teeth into her lower lip again, McKenzie nodded It asn’t it? It wasn’t because he scared her emotionally, that the way she reacted to hiet too attached to hi mother?

Was fear as really holding her back?

His gaze bored into her “If we didn’t work together, you’d go out withbetween us?”

“We do work together so it’s a moot point,” she said, as much to herself as to him, because she wasn’t chicken She wasn’t afraid to beco she really was like her mother