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Sexual tension hung in the air around them.

Thick and hungry.

The lights had gone out in their hotel room; a killer might be making his move against them any minute. But all he could think about was the woman beside him.

She stilled, and he stared down at the shadows wreathing her face, trying and failing to penetrate the dark to see her eyes.

She made a sound of distress.

“Are you okay?” he asked. He knew she was afraid of the dark, ever since the crash when she was young.

“No.” A pause. “I want to kiss you, but I think it would be a mistake.”

His entire being stilled, holding its breath. All of a sudden, he wanted nothing more in the world than for her to kiss him. Even if she was right that it would be a terrible mistake.

They weren’t meant to be. He sucked at relationships, and she was too damned vulnerable to protect herself from him and his baggage.

“Don’t kiss me if you’re afraid of the dark,” he said. “That’s all you’ll find inside me.”

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