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Restraints fell away His Hers Until everything beca breaths and demands

His mouth closed over her breast, pulled, drew The rock of waves beneath theainst skin until she wasn’t in control anys pressed, almost cut into her slick skin Not that she could think or care, her mind focused totally on Daniel and co that end and the afterward that would accompany it when they would have to face each other Deal with the line they’d crossed that couldn’t be retraced Had she won or lost in de his surrender?

And then she couldn’t think any of his pace, his heart, his heated breath against her flesh

Her meotten this Knew she never would forget

"Danny"

His name rode her screaainst her neck as he buried his face in her shoulder

And echoing in her head with a resonation that soothed and excited and scared the hell out of her all at once, she heard…

Welco the expanse of ocean in the fading light, his booted foot on the dirt nudging a lulling sway Mary Elise lounged with her head at the opposite end, keeping watch over the other stretch of ocean He drew lazy circles along her ankles and wondered when he’d developed a foot fetish Of course, the woman did have pretty toes in those sandals

Toes? He was in big trouble hereAs much as he’d enjoyed the hell out of Mary Elise when they’d been younger, this woman flattened him There was an intensity about her now that demanded more from him than before

And he didn’t just mean in bed

"I asked you a question, Daniel"

Man she had that schoolteacher tone down pat, and damned if he could re over her feet

"Danny?" She scooped up a pinecone and pelted him on the chest, dead center on his survival vest "I’ with your life since finishing the Acadeood, keep hisher back into the cabin

But once the sun set… He cleared his throat andsquadron--then became a test pilot with C-17s out at Edwards Air Force Base in California for a few years Fleith all the newest cutting-edge gizured out which ones worked, which ones didn’t and why"

"You enjoyed that" Her soft affir waves

"Oh, yeah" Al those copper-colored shorts froerous"

"So terrain Would she run screa? Even a crash landing in the middle of the California desert?

"So you have connections"

Her question yanked hi with a bone you’re not letting go of"

She toed hi? First washed-out hag and now dog?"

He grabbed her foot in a fire a kidney "You have the prettiest feet"

She snorted

Still, he couldn’t unwrap his brain from the notion that his job bothered her, a problem he should have considered before The stresses of es in the squadron

Whoa Marriage?

Wasn’t he thinking about trying the dating thing as grown-ups? Not that they’d ever really dated in the first place, just shot straight fro things slow, spending ti froageht suit pocket, his permanent reminder not to repeat pastwhat it had once looked like planted on Mary Elise’s finger

She scrunched her toes, drawing him from his haze "Ouch," she squawked

His hand jerked away from her foot "Damn, ’Lise, I’aze unrelenting "I told you already I’ to break"