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glanced up and saw he was watching her , and she felt like he could read her every thought. She felt her face heat with her blush. Look away!
    She felt a low chuckle rumble through his chest more than she heard it. She looked back up and asked, innocently enough, “What?”
    “I love to see you blush. It’s sexy.”
    Well, hell, so much for playing it off.
    She started to say something witty back, but couldn’t think of a single comeback. Damn!
    “ Hmmm…I must make you nervous. Nothing to say to that?”
    “I’m not nervous. Just not giving in to your mind games!” OK, that was a little better than just blurting out, “I want you. Now!”
    “We’ll see about that.” 
    He’s smirking now!
    Shadow appeared out of nowhere, as usual, and tried to cut in on their dance. Reaper shot him a look that was quickly masked , and Shadow moved around them to dance with another girl. Brianna realized she just got her first glance at how this team was so effective. She knew they used hand signals to keep from speaking and giving away their location, but they also had facial signals down to a science.
    “What was that look?” she asked Reaper.
    “What look?” He didn’t even have the decency to look like he’d been busted in the act.
    “Yeah. Exactly.”
    Reaper chuckled easily, and that was the end of that line of questioning.
    After several more dances, beer , and ribbing between the soldiers, Brianna thanked everyone for including her, and said she was heading back to her tent. Reaper threw his empty beer bottle in the garbage and said he’d walk her back to her tent. She knew that, technically, she wasn’t allowed to move around the base after dark without a military escort, but the fact that it was Reaper walking her made her as giddy as a middle school girl with her first boyfriend.
    As they walked along the sand road to her tent, she found it so easy to talk to him about anything. He was asking all the questions now – about her life back home, her family, her….boyfriend?
    “No boyfriend…not anymore anyway.“ He could tell by her tone of voice that it ended badly, and he guessed, correctly, that the ex-boyfriend had cheated and was caught red-handed. 
    She told him ab out her sisters and her parents.  Then she talked about how she got into journalism, but didn’t want to be a TV anchor, because it was too stuffy and boring for her. Out in the field, with the excitement, is where she saw herself. He also correctly guessed that her parents were not thrilled with her decision to avoid the hotel management career. 
    It occurred to her he could garner any information he wanted from her , in just the phrasing and timing of his questions. She wondered if he learned that from his advanced training, or if it just came naturally to him. She knew there was no point in asking that. Any questions about specific training courses wouldn’t be answered anyway.
    Just as they reached the entrance of her tent, he stopped her. As she turned to ask him what was wrong, he wrapped his arms around her waist. He pulled her close and bent to brush his lips against hers.  He pulled back for just a second to look into her eyes and saw the same desire there that burned in his, then covered her mouth with his. This time with a deeper, more demanding kiss. 
    His tongue ran across her lips, teasing and tempting her to open her mouth to him. When she did, he dipped his tongue in, allowing it to caress and dance with hers. Her hands locked behind his neck, pulling her whole body up closer to his. She felt his massive hand run up the back of her neck, fisting into her hair, and tilting her head slightly for him to deepen the kiss even more.
    Breathing heavy, they tentatively pulled back from their embrace. He looked around, checking to make sure they were still alone and unseen, then turned back to Brianna.
    “Reaper, I need to tell you something. As badly as I want this to happen, and believe me when I say I do, I don’t do