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- Page 21 and 22: One“Almost enough to make you bel
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- Page 69 and 70: “Over my dead body,” she snarle
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ack into bed.After a long silence,
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Drawing up her shoulders, she turne
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You’re to rest. Stay off your fee
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when he saw her. “Uh…hi, Kelly.
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together like old times.”Ryan sig
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Kelly had accused him of trying to
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een shoving at him ever since Kelly
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supposed to fly back to New York wi
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“God, stop with the snark. You’
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I’d do it.”“Well, yeah, but a
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FiveKelly sat cross-legged on her b
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your burden.”She opened her mouth
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would consider taking you on this t
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father. Instead of making her feel
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The next morning Ryan gently shook
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arm around her as they exited the p
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and felt an eagerness to explore th
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stuck. Ryan reached down to help he
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elationship with Ryan to ever quest
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“Don’t play dumb. You’re a sm
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for the door.But Jarrod had been ri
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like. Take it easy while I’m gone
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So warm and soft. She sighed in con
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sarong she wore. Her feet were bare
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crazy about. The one who always had
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“I’m here on business. The ques
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my regards to my mother, and while
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She was too angry to give a damn th
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She turned away from him, trying to
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left? He didn’t believe her. She
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with me. Not a thousand miles away
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her mouth away. Her pulse raced and
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Her head dropped down and exhaustio
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I’d like that to be where we end
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permanent break and move on, whatev
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would have a comfortable seat, he h
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“I don’t know yet. I’m not in
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scattered like fairy dust across th
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NineKelly pulled the nightgown over
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Then he stood and pulled her to her
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of his neck.It was the way she’d
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ack of his head, holding him in pla
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lids, and she swallowed against the
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once more as her body flew in about
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Wanting that closeness to him—esp
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down into her eyes.The stark emotio
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steadying breaths. He’d already l
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Her breaths grew more rapid and err
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himself—and her—that he’d put
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saying we have to take a huge leap,
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Eleven“She doesn’t give up, doe
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challenge—in Kelly’s direction,
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caressing hers. “Yeah, it was.”
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“Yet another thing that’s off-l
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sake, Kelly, I’d just found out y
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She had to acknowledge that they ha
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But it was Ryan who seemed to grow
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the doctor tomorrow. I want to be s
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apron strings, but he respected his
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She adjusted her position so that s
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supported his decision to return ho
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“I think as long as you don’t o
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hurry, okay? I’ll send out for so
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“Amazing what men in love will do
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“Do you have doubts?”“I’d b
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know that. Maybe it’ll help. Mayb
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FourteenKelly woke to find Ryan gon
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ut he wanted to forget and move on.
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heartstrings.Every morning when she
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was too sexy or revealing. If it lo
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couldn’t possibly imagine how muc
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FifteenKelly swallowed her mounting
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didn’t miss the looks they cast i
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tonight. But she refused to look ba
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for her.She was barely able to get
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coat still hanging. Then he hurried
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were okay again. I did myself a hug
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could think about was getting to yo
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wanted to make sure that when I ran
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her, completely frozen. He had no d
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that be for me? I deserve more than
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He lifted her limp hand, the one th
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gestation, the child has a very goo
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was creased, whether in worry or pa
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“Have you eaten?”Ryan shook his
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person she counted on, and I turned
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her again.“Will you do it?” Rya
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won’t mean much, but I’m sorry.
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Jarrod’s face flushed a dull red
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you’d see it too.”“You’re n
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every one of her sixty years. If sh
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“How is she?” Kelly asked, a kn
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Her expression must have reflected
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Eighteen“I’m reluctant to relea
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the severity and the complexity of
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inside stirred, though, as though s
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“I’m tired,” she said honestl
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walked away, he stroked a hand over
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She was at a complete loss for word
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He rose from his perch beside her a
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“We make quite a pair, don’t we
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They sat until the sun sank below t
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