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“Okay,” she said slowly, not sounding sure of her voice “I’ll go to an animal park with you, and I’ve alanted to check out Little India, so that would be good, too” Her lower lip pouted just a tad “Maybe you won’t put ain”
Did she have any idea how beautiful she was? How much he wanted tobetween theile to cloud the issues with sex What issues he didn’t want to cloud he wasn’t sure, just that he’dtheir ratification
It was simply a delay
“If you go to sleep again,” he threatened in his ers and return to the ship alone”
“Hey” She reached out and punched his arm, then re-crossed her arms over her chest
“Of course,” he continued, unfazed, “that snore of yours ht scare the stripes off them”
“I thought you saidfro quality that he could quite easily get addicted to
He leaned over, but made no play to touch her, justthe way her hair lay about her head in tangles, how her ed beneath her eyes, how her lips pouted with the need to be kissed A thousand sunsets couldn’t coht have exaggerated”
“You think?” She giggled and so shifted inside him and he wondered if he was too late, if perhaps issues were already so cloudy that eventually a storm would hit no matter how carefully he proceeded
“I don’t even want to think of all the ways I huht,” she continued
“Then don’t Last night doesn’t matter Today’s a new day”
“You’re right It is a new day Let’s get started” With that, she darted fro him with the most delectable view of her bottom in tiny royal blue silk panties as she disappeared into the bathroom
Later that day and for the dozenth ti and, just as she’d done each tiht aside
She had the right to be with Cole He was single She was single They were healthy, consenting adults going into this with their eyes wide open The past didn’t matter
She didn’t really buy her mental pep talk, but she deceived herself that she did Otherwise she wouldn’t be able to justify how her hand rested in Cole’s as it had done most of the day Neither would she be able to justify how they’d talked, laughed, enjoyed each other’s company Like lover