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around? Or I could get us a glass of wine…” Bradley walks toward his kitchen with me hot on his heels.
     
    “I would like a tour, please. Of your bedroom.” Leaning into him, I breathe him in as he looks down at my lips. He wraps his arm around my back and tilts my chin up to him with his other hand, so we’re paused in an almost kiss. The electric sparks are snapping like the buzz of a lightning storm in the air on a hot summer evening.
     
    “I think that can be arranged,” he murmurs and kisses me slowly. Truthfully, I’m a little disarmed. When I go home with a guy, I’m used to the urgent passion of fumbling to get our clothes off as quickly as possible. After what we started in the coat room, I expected more of the same from him, not the sensual, unhurried kisses he’s covering me in now. Despite my initial confusion, I find myself fluttering my eyes closed and dissolving into his tender lips. When he steps back, my flesh cries out for more of his touch as the air between us feels like the eroding space of the Grand Canyon. His hazel, deeply set eyes hold me in place tighter than his brawny arms could. “I’ve missed those eyes.” He smiles faintly.
     
    “My eyes? What do you mean?”
     
    “When I met you at the art show. When was that?”
     
    “Almost two years ago.” I can’t believe how quickly that time has evaporated from my life.
     
    “That’s right.” A smile flickers on his lips as he remembers. “When I saw you that night, I knew I had to meet you. You were, I mean you are, just so stunning.”
     
    I remember how he persisted in talking to me that night, derailing my attempts to help Kendra find Matthew. “Thank you,” I whisper. Something about his confession makes me want to tone down my normally boisterous voice.
     
    “For the longest time, I could close my eyes and still see your face in my mind. Your full lips.” He runs his thumb over my bottom lip and stirs a deep desire to kiss him inside me. “Your flawless face,” his fingertips graze my cheek like a warm ocean breeze, “and those eyes.” I watch how his twinkle with recognition as he looks over my features.
     
    He kisses me, and I press my body against his solid frame, wishing away our clothes. His words seep into my mind, as his lips linger on mine. I need to know, pulling away from him I tilt my head in curiosity. “Why didn’t you ever call me? If we hadn’t met tonight, I don’t think we would have ever crossed paths again.”
     
    Holding the side of my face in his palm, he pauses. “Trust me, I thought about it many times. But I wasn’t in a place where dating was an option for me then. Taking over Zervion and balancing life was… more hectic than I expected.” Clouds flash quickly over his eyes, I’m not sure if they are sadness, regret or something else. They roll over too quickly for me to read properly. “You’re wrong though,” a sparkle of sunlight outshines the clouds as he smiles down at me, “I knew we would cross paths again.”
     
    “Oh? How’s that?”
     
    “Well, at the risk of sounding like a stalker,” he drops his chin, “I went to Kendra and Matthew’s wedding today because I knew you’d be there. I mean, I also wanted to wish them well and all that.” He waves his hand in a small circle like he’s spinning the sentiment around his fingers. “The bigger reason, the real reason I couldn’t miss it, was to see you again.”
     
    There are two types of women in this world. The ones you take home for a night, and the ones you take home to your Mama. Now, I haven’t ever been sipping tea and eating biscuits with anyone’s mother, but the way Bradley is talking to me allows me picture it just for a second. The thought is fleeting as he leans into me, kissing me again, but this time with the familiar urgency I was expecting earlier. His hands wrap around my shoulders, making quick work of unzipping my gown until my back is completely exposed. He kisses a hot trail over