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giggle. “Okay, what if we find out we like each other, what then? You still live in New York, I still live in Seattle, we
both have jobs we plan to keep, we can’t—”
    He kissed her, long enough and thoroughly enough to make it
plain he didn’t care who saw. Judging by the murmur from the nearby troupe
members when Aidan pulled away, Lily suspected that quite a few of them saw.
She knew anyone who hadn’t seen it would hear about it by the end of the show,
if not by the end of this intermission.
    He hadn’t just been kissing her, he’d been staking a claim.
    “I’m staying,” Aidan said again, lifting Lily’s hand with
the rose in it, “but I do have to go right now, I’m due down front.” He tapped
her nose with the silky-soft petals again then dropped another swift kiss on
her lips.
    Lily wanted to wrap herself around him, but instead she let
him go…at least as far as the orchestra pit.
    “Better hurry,” she urged him breathlessly. “The second act
is about to start.”

About Delphine Dryden
     
    After earning two graduate degrees, practicing law awhile
and then working for the public school system for over ten years, Delphine
finally got a clue. She tossed all that aside and started doing what she should
have been doing all along, writing novels! In hindsight she could see the
decision was a no-brainer. Because which sounds like more fun? Being a
lawyer/special educator/reading specialist/educational diagnostician…or writing
spicy romances?
    When not writing or doing “mommy stuff”, Delphine reads
voraciously, watches home improvement shows, noodles around with html and css
coding, and plays computer games with her darling (and very romantic) husband.
She is fortunate enough to have two absurdly precocious children and two rotten
but endearing rescued mutts.
    Delphine and her family are all Texas natives, and reside in
unapologetic suburban bliss near Houston.
     
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    Intermezzo
     
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