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Оглавление“I mean it, Daphne. Don’t kiss me.”
She widened her eyes. Blinked innocently. “I hadn’t planned on it.”
“I know what you’re doing,” Oakes said, his voice harsh. “You’re trying to lure me in, messing with my head. Trying to get me to break.”
“Oh, Oakes.” She cupped his face with her gloved hand. “I would never want to break you.”
“I’m not going to kiss you,” he told her gruffly. But he was pulling her toward him slowly. So slowly she could stop him at any time.
“If you say so.”
“But if I do kiss you,” he said, a desperate man fighting a losing battle, looking for a way to justify his actions, “it’s only to prove, again, that there’s nothing there.”
But his words were weak. How could they be anything, but when he was drawing her nearer, his arms wrapped around her waist.
“If that’s what you need to tell yourself,” she whispered.
It was. He wished he could believe it, too. Eyes on hers, he lowered his head and pressed his mouth to hers.
