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boots.”
    “Sounds like a plan. And I’ll feed you the best barbecue and
Tex-Mex you’ve ever eaten. Your taste buds will sit up and shout olé .”
    Lindy laughed as Chloe zipped her luggage and pulled it from
the bed. “The size of my butt expands just thinking about it.”
    Together they’d made it about halfway down the stairs when
the doorbell rang. Lindy sprinted the last half-dozen steps and opened the
door. Ace stood framed there looking like something out of Chloe’s hottest,
wettest dream and she froze. She had no idea why he was here but he didn’t look
happy. When her heart started to beat again, she headed down the stairs. Before
she could take a step, however, he was there taking the bag from her hands.
    “I’ve got it.”
    She laughed, slightly embarrassed by the shaky tone. “My
hero.”
    Lindy beat a hasty retreat while Chloe followed Ace into the
foyer and watched him set the bag down. Straightening, he looked at her. The
intensity in his gaze sent a shiver racing over her skin and her heart thumped
as memories whipped through her system. The whole avalanche of emotion was
topped off with a dollop of pain that curled low in her belly. “Why are you
here, Ace?”
    He shook his head. “I hated saying goodbye to you last
night.”
    “Me too but you still haven’t answered my question.”
    Ace moved in on her and sent his arms around her to pull her
close. “I couldn’t sleep last night. You?”
    She shook her head. “Not much but, Ace, you are a bona fide
globetrotter and I’m a homebody with a little girl waiting for me back in
Texas.”
    “Fuck.”
    “Precisely. We did a lot of that and it was wonderful but
sadly, the reunion is over and the real world beckons.”
    Ace pressed his lips to her hair then bent low to kiss her
mouth. His tongue swept the surface until it dipped deep to taste her fully. It
was a hungry kiss, a kiss of possession and need and Chloe responded to it like
a woman starved for the touch of a man. And not just any man…Ace. Unable to
prevent it, she actually whimpered as sensation coalesced in her body and the
power of her feelings invaded her mind. He pressed his body against hers,
letting her know in no uncertain terms that he wasn’t done with her. Not now,
at least.
    Thank God.
    He broke the kiss. “The real world doesn’t have to crash
down on us yet, does it?”
    “What do you mean?”
    “Recall that little town about twenty miles from here? We
used to drive out to the lake to make out.”
    “Like bunnies.”
    He laughed. “Figured you’d know the place.” He moved his
dark brows up and down. “If memory serves, you lost your virginity out there to
a really sexy tennis dude.”
    Oh my.
    Yeah, did she ever remember the spot. Memories took
her back to a hot, frantic initiation to sex and a first love so strong it was
a miracle that anything could have replaced it.
    Shaking her head, struggling to think clearly, she stared at
him. “What are you suggesting?”
    “Can you spare a few more days for a man you once loved? I
promise to make it worth your while. There’s a little cabin out there. I
impulsively booked it for a couple of days. Yeah, I jumped the gun, so sue me.”
    Joy bounced around in her brain for a second or two. Finally
she smiled. “I don’t think that’ll be necessary.” She leaned into his rock-hard
body and pressed her breasts to all that firm muscle. Her nipples ached
deliciously at the contact. “I shouldn’t but you have such awesome ideas. I’m
not ready for this time to be over yet either. Let me make a few calls.”
    * * * * *
    “Are you sure there’s really a lake here?” Chloe stretched
naked over his body and settled her lips on his jaw. She sucked, licked and
nibbled his flesh and how in God’s name was a man supposed to tease with a
woman while so fucking turned-on? She lounged as though she were a goddess and
his body was her own personal chaise. “I mean, really,” she whispered. “We’ve
been here for two