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I wasn't going to take off her shirt Not with the door half-open, disguised as ere by the shadows cast in the fading sun This wasn't high school, and I wouldn't run the risk of anyone catching us Especially August

It should have been a warning sign that even the thought of her kid didn't sidetrack me

Pullingone perfect breast Only a few freckles here, ginger spots against the creah on the inner curve of her breast Another on the fullest curve, another just beside her hard, pink nipple She sed a gasp at the nip of my teeth, couldn't silence herher deep

It should have been enough It wasn't I rolled, ertips nudging her shorts—

Scarlett's body froze, one hand flying up to coverQuiet

Quiet? What did she hear? I caught it a second later The shuffle of a footstep in the dark hallway outside the half-open door The low thu? Other than us, as sneaking around the guest wing in the dark?

Chapter Nineteen

SCARLETT

I don't kno I heard him in the hallway I was lost in Tenn, in the feel of hi me That man could kiss All my resolve went out the hen his mouth met mine I could kiss him forever

And the worst thing was I felt like I had been kissing him forever There wasn't any of that first-ti how he liked to be touched or worrying that I wasn't doing it for hiht there with him

It was perfect So perfect I shouldn't have heard the sound from the hall, but I did

Furtive footsteps A door creaking open Closing It took almost a minute for my brain to make sense of the subtle sounds I was a lot more focused on Tenn, the rumble in his chest as he kissed ues, the rustle of fabric as his hand slipped under my shirt