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Nicola looked at Marcus over the small round table by the here they’d just devoured pancakes and sausages and a huge bowl of fruit Hoas it, she wondered, that eating breakfast together could feel as inti love?

Probably, she told herself, it was si-after like this with aKenny had always been too hung over to wake up h Marcus worked in the wine industry, she couldn’t picture hi about hi him to knotheir stolen, secret hours together, she said, "I kno much you must have to do at your winery" She reached for his hand across the table, thrill buh hers "Thank you for spending this time with me"

"There’s nowhere else I’d rather be," he said, and then, "What do you normally do on your days off?"

She bit her lip "I don’t know I haven’t had " Especially this past six months after her heart--well, her pride, actually--had been broken, it had been easier to focus all her attention on her music and her career

"It’s the same with me Like you said, the vines demand a lot of attention"

For all the obvious ways that they were different, Nicola was surprised to realize they weren’t at opposite poles on all fronts

She grinned at hiure out what to do with a beautiful day off?"

He pulled her onto his lap "I can think of a good half-dozen things"

She giggled as he nibbled on her neck, ridiculously tempted to spend the entire day in bed with hi playful like this She turned her face to meet his as he lifted his mouth to hers and sank into the sweetest kiss anyone had ever given her

"How about I take you to one of my favorite places?"

Marcus had struck her, from the first, as a very private person His offer meant even more to her because of that

"I’d love that" She hated having to reet pretty crazy"

"Don’t worry, I think the spot I have in er across her lower lip, sending shivers through her "It’s very remote"

Her voice was barely es of those half-dozen things they could do to each other so even hotter than it already was

She was about to press her lips against his when he ht never leave the hotel"