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“I…”
His throat moved as he swallowed. “I didn’t feel worthy, I
guess.”

“Rex—”

“It’s
okay.
It’s
done
and
it
was
a
long
time
ago.
I’m
past
all
that,
seriously,
except
you… Yeah,
I don’t think I ever got past
you.”

She
swallowed,
her
throat
thick,
her
heart
thundering
so
hard
she
figured
he’d probably be able to hear it.
“And now?
I mean, you’ve kissed me plenty
now.”

“Not
nearly
enough.”

Oh
God.

“I
had the biggest crush on you back then,”
Lanie
blurted.
“All through high
school.
A heart-pounding, sweaty-palm,
mega-secret
crush.”

“No.
Fucking.
Way.” He frowned. “I
thought maybe you were just looking for
some
action last night and I just happened to be the lucky bastard you picked. Is
that
why—”

“I
came on to you?
Um…yeah.”

The
left
side
of
his
mouth
kicked
up.
He
leaned
forward
and
laid
his
forearm
against the door by her head. He didn’t just invade her personal
space,
he claimed it
for
his
own.

“
Lanie
,”
he
drawled,
his
voice
deepening.
“Coming
on
to
me
would
have
been
a sexy
smile,
some
heavy
flirting,
maybe
a
sexually
suggestive
comment
or
two.
What
you did? Yeah, that was a straight-up, no-questions-asked, point-blank
proposition.”

His
smile
widened
when
she
felt
the
warmth
flood
her
cheeks.
She
still
hadn’t
a clue where she’d managed to find the courage to do it. He was looking
at her as if
he’d been more than glad
she
had.

“And I loved it. Although…” He traced her bottom lip with his
thumb in an
uneven glide. Heat curled
low in her abdomen at the slight touch. “I had it all figured out. I
was going
to
be
so
smooth,
use
every
ounce
of
experience
and
finesse
I
had
to
get
you
into
my bed but that all went out the window. You beat me to
it.”

He
closed his eyes briefly and drew in a shuddering
breath.

“
Lanie
, last night we had sex,
incredible, mind-blowing sex, by far the best I’ve
ever had—”

“Really?”

“Oh
yeah, fuck yeah
and…”

She
smiled.

He frowned.
“What?”

“You
haven’t cleaned up your language much. You still have a dirty
mouth.”

His eyes went molten and the jolt to her stomach was like a
physical blow. “I’d
love to show you
just how dirty my mouth can get.
Again and
again.”

Heat punched through her body and speared between her legs in
a sharp ache.
She
could
remember
in
vivid
detail
how
his
mouth
had
felt
there,
his
tongue,
his
teeth against her, and
then his heavy body driving into her, urgently,
relentlessly.

“Rex…”

He groaned.
“Just like that.
The
sound of you saying my name is almost enough
to get me
off.”

She glanced down. He was thick and hard against the front of
the low-slung
jeans.
She hadn’t had nearly enough time to look
at him and he still hadn’t let her touch
him,
not the way she wanted to, in all the ways she ached
to.

Lanie
took a deep breath.
If they were
being honest…
“Rex, I— I was
married.”

“Was.
You’re
divorced.
Right?”
The
smile
vanished
and
his
voice
hardened
as
if
he’d had to force the words
out.

“It
was a mistake, a big, fat, mistake
and—”

“And you don’t want to make another one. I get it. I just
want a chance,
Lanie
,
I
just want a
chance with
you.”

Oh
God.

“I
don’t want to hurt anyone, you. I wouldn’t want to hurt you.
I’m—”

“I’m
a big boy,
Lanie
.”

She
felt
the
wash
of
heat
surge
up
her
neck
this
time
and
into
her
cheeks.
She’d always hated how easily she blushed. His quick, wicked smile
didn’t help
either.

“I
wasn’t thinking past…one
night.”

“I know, but you liked it.” His voice dropped. “I know you
did.”

She swallowed as the heat that was never far below the
surface rose up inside her.
It
wasn’t
just
it
she
liked—although
that
was
in
a
class
all
its
own—it
was
him
,
just
him.
Maybe it always had
been.

“We
don’t know each other, not
really.”

One
corner of his mouth lifted and her stomach jolted.
“Only one
way to fix
that.”

Lanie
thought of all the things she
didn’t get to do last night, the ways she
wanted
to
touch
him,
explore
him,
get
to
know
his
body.
That
wasn’t
what
she’d
meant.
Not
exactly.

He
used
a
single
finger
under
her
chin
to
raise
her
eyes
to
his.
His
gray
gaze
was direct.

“Stay,
Lanie
.”

Stay?

“I’m
flying out later
today.”

“Me too.”

“Where?
I mean, where do you live? I don’t even know where
you
live.”

He
smiled. “See, that’s the good part. I live in San
Diego.”

Her
heart thundered in her
chest. “That’s
where I live,” she
whispered.

His thumb brushed against her cheek, lingered. “Yeah, I know.
I moved down
from
LA a couple years
ago.”

He’d
been in her backyard all that time and she’d never
known.

His
hand
curled
around
the
back
of
her
neck.
“I
want
you,
Lanie
.
I
always
have. Christ,
it
used
to
eat
me
alive
knowing
there
was
no
chance
in
hell
you’d
ever
look
at
me, want me like
that.”

“Rex—”

“It
wasn’t
the
right
time.
Although.”
His
gaze
locked
onto
hers.
“Now
I
know
you
had the
hots
for me all
along.”

She
breathed out in a ragged sigh. “I
did.”

“I want to see you, I want to know how you like to spend your
time, what gets
you mad, what you
love.” His voice lowered. “And I want to learn what gives you the
most pleasure. I want to be… Well, we’ll
just take it one day at a time,
okay?”

She
took a deep breath. “Dating? You want us
to—date?”

He shrugged. It was a casual movement, but the look in his
eyes was anything
but. “If that’s
what you want to call
it.”

She stepped into him until her body was flush against his and
gloried in the
sharply
indrawn breath, the flash in his eyes,
the
clench of his fingers in her
hair.

“
Lanie
,” he groaned, hot and hard
against her. “This isn’t just about sex. I’m not
just after the sex. I want you, to really know
you.”

She felt the curl of warmth deep down inside her. She ran an
unsteady hand up
his hard,
smooth
chest
to
his
lips,
drunk
with
the
right
to
be
able
to
touch
him,
with
the
power that she could affect him like that
just with her touch, her
nearness.

“So,
while we do this dating thing,” she whispered. “We still get to have sex,
right? Because we never did even things up, you
know.”

He laughed then, warm and wicked. His hand moved down to
clasp her hip,
urging her more
fully against him,
the
hand at her nape angling her
head.

“Fuck yeah,” he groaned as he lowered his mouth to
hers.

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