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She laughed "No I didn’t look But there was instant chemistry between us You can’t deny that"

"No, I definitely can’t deny that" Ian was about to say so a future, and probably scare the coressiveness, when the waitress saved his and hash browns down in front of him

Bree had a chicken salad, which she didn’t look all that interested in While he shoveled eggs into his mouth to appease his completely empty stomach, she just played with her fork

"Ian, why do you think we’ve been sharing the same dream?"

That was the million-dollar question to which he had no answer "I don’t know I don’t understand things like this, Bree I’ve never beenspiritual" It was sonored, frankly, in the need to pay the bills and achieve corporate success

"But you’re not close-ht about that "No No, not really I have a hard ti s we can’t really explain They just are"

Like his rapidly growing feelings for her

Bree studied Ian’s face He looked sincere, and he had been a a witch He was definitely different fro his company It was odd how they weren’t the polar opposites she had assumed based on each of their appearances In fact, they had a lot in coot down to the basics, and she liked hi crazy that ured she acted out of e to be with her in any way, he would have to accept that facet of her personality So shetrue to herself, and he could take it or leave it

So she opened heraround in her head "I think that the reason we’ve been sharing this drea a dream in our daytime lives"

His forehead furrowed "What do you oals, essentially

We both want to hit the pause button, enjoy family and a house and a relationship We’re both lonely and looking for so with someone With each other"

There it was All laid out on tire table in the Busy Bee Everything she’d been thinking If he thought she was a flake noell, she’d save herself soreed, thenwonderful

Ian did look like he’d taken a two-by-four in the face, but he wasn’t running out of the restaurant screaht, Bree After today, I’"

"Really? You don’t think I’ his fork down

"No I think you’re a her hand as they walked up her driveway It was new and strange, but in a giddy, exciting sort of way It was her house, and they were going to it, aover his shoulder It was easy and comfortable, like they were a couple, and he did this every weekend

Her elderly neighbor Edith waved to her, myopic eyes ith curiosity as she checked out Ian, studying their linked hands Wonderful The gossip that Bree Murphy was hooking up would be all over town byNot that Bree cared, exactly, but it would mean a phone call from her mother, and unlike most mothers, there would be no censure Instead, hersome, and she would press for details Bree loved her mother, but she did not want to discuss her sex life with her She didn’t want to discuss her sex life with anyone except the lanced up at Ian and said, "You’re ossip"

He looked amused and even had the nerve to wave to Edith "Do you care?"

"Yes," she lied "So you had better make it worth my character defa thoroughly debauched, I really should thoroughly debauch you?"

"You have to adic to that," she told him as she fished in her purse for her house key

"I’ic" Ian held his hand out for the keys she had retrieved "So I’ll have to debauch you"

"Daers slide across his bare skin She wanted hi to start now, right here, on your porch"

"Don’t do it," she warned him, in a voice that clearly conveyed she absolutely did want hiainst him "Can’t stop me"

Bree reached inside his coat and wrapped her arhed softly "In pleasure, maybe"

"Puh-leeze"