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"I apologize--"

"Don’t you dare," she said, pulling back to look at his startled eyes "I started that"

"You were just thanking me I shouldn’t have taken it where it went"

"If I hadn’t wanted it to go there, I would’ve stopped you"

He stared at her, noticeably sing hard again, his jaw stretching "Why didn’t you?"

She shook her head and touched his face "I didn’t want to"

He closed his eyes at the touch of her hand to his face "You don’t know anything about irlfriend?" she asked, dreading the answer "The girl you left the bar with Friday night?"

Shaking his head, he opened his eyes, but he didn’t look at her "I don’t have a girlfriend"

The relief was instant, but she refrained fro in too obviously "My not knowing anything about you is not for lack of interest onto know me, but that’s not what I felt with that kiss or the way you look atthe hell out of the new Regina The insecurities she’d never felt before last year, before her life had taken such a turn, were still also very much alive and well What if she was coht up in a moment of passion? What if what he’d been so brutally honest about before still stood--he had no interest in her

"Trust et to knowher brow as their eyes met "I do"

At a stalemate for a ain "It’s late, and we’ve both had a long night You should get some sleep"