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“Why wouldn’t you be able to leave?”

My breathing stalled for a few heartbeats She could not be that du up on one elbow, her svelte body just begging for another touch

I drankto look at her “Because I can’t exactly have sex with the intern in the dorht, that’s why”

“Who said I’d let you?” she fired back

“Oh, it’s like that?” I nodded “All right, see if I ever kiss you again”

“I wonder who could hold off longer…” She tapped her chin

“Me!” we said in unison

“A wager?” she offered next

“Naood

She sat up “No kissing until after the coonna need two creative dates beforeof any kind”

“Hmmmm…” I settled my hands on o outside and date during our coht?”

“You’ll figure it out” She got up and walked toward her bathroo about that? So…”

I glared “Fine But you have to say yes”

“Like I would say no”

“Well…” I shrugged “You could”

“I wouldn’t” Her face was anything but teasing now

I shookvulnerable and yet oddly okay with being that way as long as it ith her “How the hell did this happen?”

Her expression coe her, reject her, who knows, so “Are you mad it did?”

“No,” I said quickly “I just wasn’t ready”

She leaned against the door fra out, showing her dark roots I’d noticed the darker roots before, but I’d ht out her eyes and complexion It was hard to look away, so damn hard

“Neither was I,” she whispered in a stricken voice “Neither was I…”