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Оглавление“Eli, I’ve been in the coast guard for ten years. This is a difficult and demanding profession we’re in.”
Aubrey leaned back and stretched her long, shapely legs in front of her.
He could so easily entangle his feet with hers.
“Rewarding, too, of course,” she added. “But hard.”
“That it is.”
He reached out and slowly removed the paper from her hands. His sole purpose in doing so was to feel her soft, warm skin against his. He had to touch her even as he knew he needed to quit stealing these moments. He needed to find a place where they could peacefully coexist, one that didn’t include touching her and wanting to kiss her.
She watched him, her green eyes all soft and bright and full of questions, and...and he knew he wasn’t imagining the desire swimming in their mossy green depths. Twelve years may have passed, but that was a look a man could never forget.
