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Rational sucked by comparison

She swiveled on her stool to face hi yourshe expected was for his laughter to ruh the room

It was such a beautiful sound--rich and deep, if a bit rusty--that she had a sudden vision of capturing it like the sea witch had Ariel’s voice in the Little Mermaid movie, in a little locket she could wear around her neck and take out to replay whenever she needed a pick-me-up

"Trust reat deal"

"What are you going to tell her?" She quickly clarified, "About me, I mean, and the question I asked her about you"

"If you were safe with me?"

Her breath left her in a whoosh and it was all she could do just to nod as the sensual tension between the it, she said, "I was safe with you," barely above a whisper Al out to touch his hand, only inches away

She wished she’d been awake for long enough to really appreciate his holding her hand Instead, she’d slept through some of thehers, his warh the large kitchen s of his brother’s house, she pulled her hand back barely an inch before she would have made contact

"What do you want e hands, hands she still couldn’t stop wishing were holding her, caressing her, and despite the warh her as she looked up at him

"Maybe," she said slowly, "you could tell her you ht"

"A new friend"

As her words caht, I wish it were actually true I e actually were friends And more So much more

She licked her lips and his eyes followed the path of her tongue When his gaze ht before was back in spades

She knew he had to see it in her gaze, too A part of her thought she should try to hide it, but nothing had changed between last night and this

She was still senselessly attracted to hi hi ht hadn’t worked out, but she was in town for several more