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heart.”
    Erin snorted. “That’s not all I followed.” For a long moment, she pressed her cheek into his chest, her arms locked around his waist.
    Caesar cupped her ass. “I wish we were in a soft bed where I could hold you the rest of the night, and make love to you into the light of the morning, mi amor .”
    “You know that can’t happen,” she whispered, her breath warm on his skin.
    “Not here. But when we get back to the States.”
    “Not even then.” She shook her head. “What just happened…should not have.” She pushed away until his hands dropped to his sides.
    Standing in the shadows, her naked body tinted indigo blue, she’d never been more beautiful or desirable. But the hard set of her jaw and the tears welling in her eyes made his stomach knot. He pulled his shorts up over his still-stiff erection, afraid she was about to break his heart.
    “We can never let this happen again,” she stated, her voice wobbling at the end.
    “Erin—” Unable to stop himself, he reached toward her.
    But she backed away. “No. Don’t touch me. It only makes it harder for me to say this.” She bent to gather her clothes, slipping the shorts up her legs and the T-shirt over her head. “What happened here was wrong.”
    “No, it wasn’t.” He stepped closer, careful to keep his hands at his sides. “I have no regrets. What we did was true, honest and beautiful.”
    Her hands dropped to her sides and her shoulders sagged. “And against every rule in the books.”
    Caesar tilted his head, his eyes stinging, his chest aching with his growing admiration for this woman. If he wasn’t mistaken, he was falling for her and that would make their situation so much more difficult. “After what we just shared…you could walk away and never look back?”
    “Don’t you see?” Her chin jerked up and her eyes flashed. “I have to. You don’t really love me. We had sex. Nothing more, nothing less.”
    He’d had sex with women before. But none had captured his heart like Erin. She was warm, caring and dedicated to her work. “We didn’t just have sex. You’re wrong.”
    “Am I?” Her lips twisted. “As soon as you redeploy, you’ll forget I exist.”
    How can she say this? “You don’t know what’s in my heart.” He gripped her arms. “I’m not that kind of guy. I don’t want any other woman. I want you.”
    “I’m sorry.” She straightened and stepped free of his hold. “Maybe I don’t want you.”
    Her words stabbed him in the heart. “Do you really mean that?”
    She bit her bottom lip and looked away. “Yes.”
    He didn’t believe her for a moment, but he’d let her go this time. She was scared. He could tell by the way she held her hands together to keep them from shaking. This brave nurse, who saved lives and risked coming to a war-torn country to help others, was afraid. Afraid to give her love only to have it thrown away or stomped on. Somehow, he had to convince her he wasn’t a player and that he was worth the risk. He wouldn’t betray her trust.
    Erin wadded her bra and panties in her fist, turned and ran back to her quarters as if the devil himself were chasing her. Blood pounded in her ears. How could she have let the SEAL make love to her? Was she stupid? Did she want to lose her commission?
    Back in her RLB, she threw herself onto her bed and cried. Her breasts stung with beard burn and her nipples remained puckered from his tongue teasing and flicking across the tips. Her thighs ached from riding the SEAL and her sex still throbbed from his wide girth stretching her so incredibly tight. She pressed a hand to her throbbing mons her fingers curling around herself and she missed him already. Why did being an officer in the military have to be so hard? Why couldn’t she fall for another officer, instead of a SEAL who would probably never be stationed anywhere near her again?
    On the other side of that coin, the man was everything a woman could want: brave, strong, romantic.