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THE PERFECT KISS
Оглавление“He would take you in his arms and kiss you long and hard in spite of your protests,” Harrison said. “The way he has wanted to do from the moment he met you!”
“That’s what you think a man like Ellsworth would do?”
“That’s what I know a man like Ellsworth would do.”
“And what about you, Harrison?” She stared up at him, knowing even as she said the words, these were dangerous waters. “What would a man like you do?”
“Me?” His gaze slipped from her eyes to her lips. “I would never take advantage of a beautiful woman on a darkened terrace.”
“Why not?”
“It would be … dishonorable.”
“And you are an honorable man?”
“Most certainly.”
“And you would never take advantage?”
“Never.”
“Not even if you thought that because of her ancestry she wouldn’t protest?”
“Not even then.” He paused. “And I would never think that.”
“But what if she wanted you to kiss her?”
Their gazes locked for a long moment. He turned and her heart sank. He took a step. Then paused. “Damnation, Julia!”
He swiveled back and without warning pulled her into his arms and kissed her hard and long and quite thoroughly until her knees weakened and she thought she might swoon in his arms …
