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“Of course”

“I’d like that”

“I’ll get what I need froht away It won’t take long to do” Not like there wasn’t already lots of work, but it was a small job He could bump it up the priority list

Silence fell between the else seemed to fill the space that their words had occupied Too…” And yet he made no move to leave

She shook her head,a wave of hair slide across her shoulder “Yes, you have an early start tomorrow”

“Yeah” The word caaze fixated on the way a solitary curl kissed the hollow of her neck

“Tom?”

“Hmm?”

She ran her tongue over her lips “You really have to stop looking at me like that now”

“Like what?” How had she gotten so close to him? All he’d have to do is reach out and his hand would be on the soft curve of her waist His gaze dropped to her lips, her lipstick long gone, but the natural color didn’t need it They looked soft and pink and as he stared at theht her bottom lip between her teeth

She was nervous

She was artless

He took one step closer, so close he was enveloped in that citrusy-floral scent again, close enough he felt the silky whisper of her blouse against his fingers When had he reached for her? When had she tilted her face up to his, her chest rising and falling as her breath quickened? Soan to burn inside him Not just curiosity Not just desire But satisfaction A longing for it, a taste of it, as her pupils widened and the air around the

Abby Foster turned him on in a way he hadn’t been turned on inexactly He wanted to be in the one wrong and siain A woe of Erin or his past Someone who took him at face value, rather than the way the wo up on a dead woman …

He shoved the thought out of his brain as Abby’s top teeth released her lip,the soft flesh slide into fullness once ap between theled and her lips were only a fraction of an inch away from his