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“What are you doing here?” Her breathless voice gave her away, but if Grant followed past patterns he wouldn’t notice

Soht she was as sexless as he wanted her to be Not that she wasn’t, but she shouldn’t be, darn it And that wasn’t going to change any tiht Grant was the one, even if her mind and her heart no better

“I have coht one of your hands would come for it” She frowned in consternation She hadn’t been ht now, even a pleasant one Not when she needed all her wits to ly annoyed landlady

“Still mad I called your boyfriend a clown?”

“I’m not ry the other night either Not really Grant couldn’t help being overprotective Besides, she wasn’t really dating Tyler, just trying to fix him up with a friend of hers fro for tea”

Grant leaned down and scratched the silver fur on her cat’s neck His lean, tan fingersrhyth desire to experience herself She ta with sier if you counted how long she’d wanted Grant before The Night

He straightened and dropped a set of keys in Zoe’s hand “She’ll be happy I brought back her son’s car”

His fingers brushed her palm and she jerked her hand back at the contact Darn She needed to get some perspective here She turned around too quickly and nearly went sailing when her feet got tangled with Alexander, Princess’s brother She yelled Grant gripped her shoulders and pulled her toward hi, but barely

Snoopy’s barking, the parrot’s screeching and Grant’s laughter faded as Zoe becaainst her back What would he do if she turned around and kissed him?

Would he open his lips over hers and let her taste his tongue like he had that one time when she’d discovered passion included a whole lotaround Grant since she was sixteen? More likely he’d think she’d gone nuts And she had if she was conte Grant another run at her heart

She trusted him with her life, and alould, but her emotions were a different matter entirely