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They parted just slightly before she could leave them, and breath heated her finger-pads for half a heartbeat.

‘So there you go,’ Elliott rumbled, then cleared his throat. ‘Now you’ve really seen me. You know how I sound, how I smell and how I feel. That’s pretty much all your available senses taken care of.’

‘Well,’ she began, ‘I haven’t—’

Stop!

‘You haven’t what?’

His voice, his breath, seemed impossibly closer, yet he hadn’t moved the rest of his body one inch.

‘Nothing. Never mind.’

‘Were you going to say tasted?’

‘No.’ The denial sounded false even to her.

‘Really?’ His soft voice was full of a smile. ‘Because it sounded like you were.’

‘No. That would be an inappropriate comment to make in the workplace.’

‘I agree,’ Elliott murmured. ‘Then again, that ship sailed when I asked you to touch my face, so what else do I have to lose?’

His lips—the ones she’d gone to so much trouble to avoid touching—pressed lightly onto Laney’s, half open, soft and damp and warm, before moulding more snugly against her. Sealing up the gaps.

Elliott Garvey was kissing her.