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He started to give her one of those wicked smiles that melted her insides but it quickly turned into a frown as he raked a concerned gaze over her “Were you next door? It’s freezing outside”

“Hoas I supposed to know that? It’s not even cold in here” Which eird She hadn’t felt the cold because Jay was so warht

“I turned the heater on around ht when you shivered in your sleep” He set his coffee cup down on the counter and started to head for her

Her throat tightened at those siht she’d have a htfulness touched her in ways she hadn’t i carton frolint in his piercing green eyes And it wasn’t breakfast Turning from her, he set the carton down and before he’d looked back, she stripped off her shirt, shorts and panties and tossed them to the floor in a messy heap

When he turned to face her, she was just stepping out of her slippers His big body went still as he drank in the sight of her standing there naked An undeniable shudder rolled through hiot that reaction out of him Over a year later and the chemistry was still as powerful as ever

Sliding her hands up his hard chest, she pressed her body to his as she linked her hands behind his neck Her breasts rubbed against his chest, now tingling from the feel of his body instead of the cold

“You’re going toher up so that she had to wrap her legs around his waist Through his boxers, his erection pressed insistently against her abdo her body flare to life in the way only he could

“I can head upstairs instead and—”

He cut her off with a scorching kiss thathands cupped her behind as he walked theed her shorts off and knelt between her legs, burying his face in her heat, she arched into hi to be incredibly late

And control freak that she was, she still didn’t care

Thirty ainst the kitchen floor and set her chin on Jay’s bare chest “That was a that they had to g

et up soon and head to work

Looking suprerinned at her as he stroked a hand up and down her bare spine The tile of the kitchen floor was cool beneath the could dilute her pleasure

When he groaned and started to sit she pushed off hiht old man, let me help you up”

For a moment, he betrayed such a vulnerable expression she wanted to smack herself He was in his late thirties whereas she’d just turned twenty-five—though she felt a hundred some days—and recently he’d e difference bothered hi deal to her Thanks to an apathetic rown up with no real childhood to speak of and she’d always felt light years older than she was With the exception of her deceased sister’s help, Ellie had always taken care of herself “Jay—”

That brief sense of vulnerability she’d seen disappeared as he s ar whatever she’d been about to say “I’ve gotta head out soon and I’ll have to turn my cell to silent for a few hours once I reach the casino”

“Okay I don’t have anything big today Just joining in twoso if you want let’s meet for lunch At the Cloud?” What most employees called Cloud 9