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“You had some wild reaction to a picture of me, so…you came back as some sort of personal test?”

His gaze dropped to her mouth, and it was all she could do not to wet her lips.

“Maybe that’s part of it. I don’t know. I do know one thing, though.” He pressed his fingers beneath her chin, tilted her head slightly. And she did absolutely nothing to stop him. “I no longer seem to have any restraint around you. Or maybe it’s just I see no reason to any longer. I’m not the insecure teenager I was back then, desperate for approval, terrified of rejection.”

“You were hardly that,” she murmured, surprised she could form words at all.

“I was exactly that, with those who mattered. It was a very short list. But you were on it.”

He leaned closer. She swallowed hard.

“Donovan—”

“Kick me out of the truck now, Kate.”

“I—”

“On second thought, don’t. Not yet.” He tipped her chin up farther and leaned closer. “At least not until I give you a better reason to.”