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’t have to see the because she could visualize the scene, too, and the sensation of his handsstarted in the pit of her stomach and swirled outward
“But I knew if I touched you”—his gaze flicked to her eyes and looked deeply inside their black orifices—“I wouldn’t be able to stop Instead I had to lie there and pretend it didn’t faze me to watch you spread oil all over your skin”
She dropped her gaze, unwilling to co to look back on the scene yesterday on the beach and knohat he was thinking and feeling at the time
“And I’ve ,” Gard continued on a firmer note “I never claimed to be without flaws, but damnit, I want to spend the day with you Do you want to spend the day with me? And answer me honestly”
When sheshe was a hostile witness being cross-examined by a ruthless attorney and sworn to an oath of truth Discounting all her petty resentments, Rachel knehat her ansas
“Yes” She reluctantly forced it out “Do you always ask such leading questions?”
So of an inner tension There was even the glint of a smile around his eyes
“A good laill always lead the conversation in the direction he wants it to go, whether in contract negotiations or court testimony,” he ad”
“But my objection was eventually overruled,” Rachelnow that the outco of why it had happened
“And you aren’t going to appeal the decision?” His mouth quirked
“Would you listen?” Her voice was falling to a whisper She wasn’t even sure if she knehat they were talking about as his mouth came closer and closer
It brushed over her tender lips, gently at first, then with increasing warue traced their swollen outline and licked away the soreness Rachel twisted in the seat and arched closer to hiers into his hair
The quarters of the car were too restricting, forcing positions that were too aard Breathing heavily, Gard pulled away from her to sit back in the seat He sent her a dryly amused look
“It’s iet into this with you, the surroundings go from bad to worse,” he declared “Last tile bed Now it’s a car seat”
Her laughter was soft; the fire he had ignited was still gloarm inside her As he started the car’s motor she settled into her own seat