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talking and laughing like that with a girl.”
    Amanda didn’t miss the fact that he had added “with a girl” to his sentence. Despite all of her lectures to herself about not doing anything further with Sawyer, she felt her heart beginning to pound. She noticed his eyes dropping to her lips, and she wanted nothing more than for him to sweep her into his arms and kiss her.
    The room filled with electricity, and the air around Amanda seemed to almost crackle with the charge. She couldn’t concentrate on anything except Sawyer’s face, and the invisible connection between them that seemed to be growing stronger by the second. Sawyer slowly took a step toward her. When he was standing right in front of her, he seemed impossibly tall. Impossibly strong. He raised one hand and slowly traced his index finger down the right side of Amanda’s face. The simple, sweet gesture set her face on fire. A trail of heat followed his finger, and then radiated out to the rest of her body. Her breathing grew rapid and ragged as he slowly leaned in, his lips stopping mere centimeters from hers.
    Their eyes met, and the look of passion and desire that filled his fierce, dark eyes took Amanda’s breath away. She held his gaze, full of wonder and wanting nothing more than for Sawyer to throw her down on the pristine couch in the middle of the suite and tear her clothes off. Feelings like this were a new experience for her. She had never been filled with desires this strong before. The force took her breath away, and she closed her eyes to try to regain her sense of gravity.
    The moment her eyes closed, his mouth was on hers. Fiery heat and electricity flowed from his lips to hers, and Amanda felt herself being swept away by the feeling. In that instant, she finally understood what people meant when they said they “had chemistry” with someone. She lost herself in the feeling, wanting the kiss to last forever. But after a few glorious moments, Sawyer broke away. His eyes were blazing, but they looked sorrowful, too.
    “I’m sorry,” he said, his voice husky and deep. “I shouldn’t have done that.”
    “Why not?” Amanda asked. “That was pretty much the most incredible kiss of my life.”
    Sawyer ran his fingers through his dark hair and took a step backward. “Mine too,” he said. “In fact, you’re the most incredible woman I’ve met in my life. But…”
    Amanda waited patiently as he trailed off, but he didn’t continue. He stared up at the ceiling with a pained look in his eyes. “But?” she finally prompted.
    “But I was born into responsibilities that I can’t abandon. Responsibilities that make a relationship hard. I can’t drag you into my life. You want to be free. To find yourself. I don’t want to get in your way.”
    Amanda started to protest, but then stopped. She had promised herself that she would never compromise for a relationship. And if she had to beg Sawyer to take a chance on this, then she felt like she was compromising. As hard as it was, she stepped away from him and walked to the large desk in the corner of the suite. She picked up a pen, and wrote her email address and mobile number on one of the sheets of paper with the hotel’s letterhead printed on it. She folded the paper into a small square, then walked back to where Sawyer was standing, still watching her.
    “Here,” she said, grabbing his hand and putting the piece of paper into it. “If you ever feel differently, you have my contact information.”
    She folded Sawyer’s fingers over the paper, doing her best to ignore the feeling of electric heat that shot through her body when her hands came in contact with his. Sawyer looked down at the paper, then back at Amanda. He put the paper in his pocket, and then, without another word, he turned and walked out the door of the hotel suite.
    Amanda watched him go, and watched the door swing shut behind him. Then she turned and leaned against the door, staring out at the room that now felt