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the one he figured was on her mind: “But what about that kiss?” It was certainly on his mind.
    Kane shrugged. “I doubt she’ll sell them to anyone else before the wedding day. After that, you and I can split.” And then he could dodge Charlene’s advances.
    Eliza looked up at him, did a few more moments of lip nibbling. “What if we do give this romance thing a whirl?”
    Since the heat was still zinging between them, it was certainly timely. And hard to answer. In some ways, she was still forbidden fruit.
    Which didn’t help the mental argument he was having with himself.
    Because forbidden fruit suddenly seemed like the exact kind of thing that he wanted. Especially right now. At this very moment.
    Kane didn’t think he could explain away another kiss by calling it a test. After all, there were only so many tests a man needed before he got an erection. Which he was working on just by looking at Eliza.
    His silence must have dragged on too long because Eliza did some dragging of her own. She caught onto the front of his shirt, gathering up the fabric in her fist, and she yanked him to her.
    And she kissed him.
    There it was again. That kick of pleasure. That taste. Yeah, this whole forbidden-fruit thing was making him nuts.
    Blindly groping behind him, Kane located the window ledge, where he put his coffee so that it would free up his hands to get her closer to him. Unfortunately, her cup was still in the way, and since he wanted to save his groping skills for Eliza, he tossed her cup into the backyard. She took full advantage of that and used her free hands to make that whole getting-closer thing happen.
    Her breasts against his chest.
    Her other parts against his. And they were the right parts, too.
    The kiss went on and on, just the way he liked his kisses, especially when paired with all that body-to-body contact. It went on so long that Kane was ready to drag her back into the kitchen. But he held on to the small thread of reason that was trying to fight through the lust and the haze.
    The thread that told him he really needed to rethink this.
    And that’s why he stepped back.
    She stared at him, her face flushed, her breathing way too fast, and even though Kane didn’t say a word, Eliza seemed to understand what was going on in his head.
    â€œYou think if we have sex, it’ll mean something,” she said. “Something more than just sex.”
    Bingo. Sex with Eliza would come with strings. Whopping big ones. They’d have to live in this small town, just a few miles from each other, and even casual sex might not stay so casual. Not in her mind anyway. He’d managed a relationship like that with Violet, but Kane didn’t think he could pull it off with Eliza.
    â€œMaybe you’re right,” she admitted.
    That didn’t help. He was hoping she would come up with an argument that would convince Kane that they could do this. Of course, his erection was cheering for that particular option.
    â€œBut maybe you’re wrong,” Eliza added.
    Yeah. There it was. The argument he’d been waiting for. It was a weak one. No doubt about it, but it was something his erection wanted to hear. It was his brain that was having some trouble with it.
    â€œThe limo’s here,” she said.
    Kane hadn’t heard a thing, but then his heartbeat was pounding in his ears. He went to the side of the porch so he could see the front yard and sure enough, the limo was sitting there with the engine running. And the limo driver wasn’t the only person out there. He saw Lucky McCord riding up on a horse. Lucky had another saddled horse that he was leading by the reins.
    Eliza stared at him, and Kane was pretty sure she was waiting for him to respond to the “maybe you’re wrong.” He didn’t, because he wasn’t sure what to say. But then Eliza didn’t say anything, either. She gave him a sneaky little smile and hauled him back