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Words were forming before Dermott thought them through. If the truth be told, he’d waited just as many years to speak them as he’d waited to have her beneath him in bed. “You’re not going to play with my emotions, Bridge. Not now. Not at this stage of the game.”

She looked crushed, her face falling. “Game?” she managed to say. “Its just sex….”

He couldn’t believe how hot she looked for it, either, as she offered the half lift of a bare shoulder that seemed so silky, smooth and delicious that his mouth watered. “Aren’t you even curious?” she asked.

That was the problem. He had been for years. He’d dropped plenty of hints about them winding up between the sheets. Now he tried to look unaffected, even though he was painfully aroused. “You’re the one who always said no.”

“That was then.”

He leaned closer. Her breath was on his cheek, his lips and in his hair. “And this is now?”

Nodding, she whispered, “Just sex.”

But they both knew it was more than that.