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him. “I thought you might need this.”
    With her heart in her throat she watched as he opened up the paper, quickly scanning it before looking up at her. “Cat?”
    “It's my phone number, my personal one,” she said. “It would be nice to keep in contact with you while you're away, you can keep me up to date on what's happening at the wedding.”
    As she watched a flush made its way up his throat and onto his cheeks. “That would be nice. Thank you.”
    “You're blushing.” She couldn't hold in her laughter. “A big tough warrior like you blushing! I didn't think it was possible.”
    “You have this effect on me,” he said.
    Suddenly a rush of heat went through her, and she was feeling bold in a way that she hadn't since the night she had seduced Alex. “Stand up.”
    Valto dropped his fork as he stared at her. “What?”
    “Stand up.” She wiped the corner of her mouth with her napkin, and then pushed back her chair and got to her feet. “Come on.”
    He did as she asked, a small smile coming to his lips. “You're still bossy.”
    Cat laughed again and shook her hair out of her face. “Are you saying that you don't want to kiss me?”
    “What?” His eyes widened in shock. “Of course I want to kiss you.”
    That was all the consent that she needed. Slipping on her heels, which she had taken off before breakfast, Cat moved over to him. “Might as well make sure we still have chemistry.”
    Running her fingers up the button line of his shirt, she slid her arms around his neck and got onto tip-toes so that she could brush their lips together. Immediately his hands came up to cradle her hips.
    “Chemistry?” His breathing was coming in quick bursts against her lips. “What kind of chemistry?”
    She moved even closer, letting her breasts press into his chest and finding herself pleasantly surprised at how good he felt in her arms. “Sexual. We're going to need to provide an heir or two Valto, plus if you think I'm going celibate for you think again.”
    “Sex?” His voice was hoarse, and a shudder went through his body.
    “You do know what that is right?” She drew back from him slightly. “Valto?”
    “I know what it is,” he said, fingers caressing the curve of her arse in a way that made her gasp. “I just haven't had the pleasure.”
    Of the many things that she had expected from it wasn't that he would still be a virgin; after all he had been in the military for three years, and with Eilidh for the two years before that. She had thought that he would have got naked and sweaty at least once before now.
    “What on Earth were you waiting for?” The look on his face suddenly went sad, and his big grey eyes were almost piercing as they looked at her. It didn't take a genius to work out what he was trying to tell her. “Me? Valto you've hated me for the last five years.”
    He pulled her closer then. “I tried, like really tried, Cat. With about four different women. All I could see was you. I just couldn't do it.”
    She had no verbal response to that, though her body had a shot of lust the moment she heard those words. Instead she wound her fingers through the light blonde hair at the back of his neck, pulling his head down and gently pressing their lips together. He released a low moan at that, hands letting go of her hips so as to wrap tightly around her waist and drag her against him. Almost as one their lips parted, and the kiss deepened immediately. A high whine rose from her at the pure taste of him, a deep masculine hit which was addictive. For several long moments they remained intertwined in the conservatory, trading long deep kisses as their breathing became ragged and their bodies heated.
    “Holy shit.” Their kiss broke, and he rested his forehead heavily against hers.
    “I think we have chemistry.” Which was an underwhelming way to put the throbbing in her groin and the way her underwear was sticking damply to her bare flesh. Then again he was in a similar situation if