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She realized that it was more a question than a statement.

Nika made her choice—as if she could say anything else. “I’d like that.”

Damn? what was he doing, Cole silently demanded, bewildered. He was asking for trouble, for complications, for things he had no time for and didn’t want. Complications that inevitably aroused feelings.

And yet…

And yet there was something about her, something that made him feel alive, that connected him to a world he’d long since walked away from.

He’d forgotten he could actually feel anything.

He’d voluntarily been on the outside for so long, he’d come to believe that was where he belonged. Beyond that, he lived and breathed in a rarified zone that allowed his heart to function, to beat and oversee blood being directed to all his vital organs. But feel? His heart wasn’t capable of doing that.

At least, it couldn’t before.

Now, he wasn’t so sure.

And a large part of him resisted things changing, resisted finding out that his heart could do anything beyond beat.

But the temptation of Nika’s mouth drove his resolutions out of his head, propelling them into a zone that was packed away out of the light of day, a darkened no-man’s-land.

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