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to have him come back at me with a kiss to the tip of my nose.
    "Two things you'd take with you to a deserted island?" I continued my barrage of silly questions.
    "Another easy one. I'd take one sexy Emily Marcus, of course, and a life supply of Twizzlers."
    I was laughing so hard that I started hiccupping. Once my hiccups subsided I needed to know, "Why Twizzlers?"
    We finally decided to sit on a nearby empty bench. Louis pulled my legs over his thighs so he could run his finger up and down my exposed skin while we lounged in the sun. All his answers thus far were making me giddy with laughter. He was looking down at his hand caressing my skin, and causing goose pumps to form up and down my body. He then lifted his yearning gaze to meet my eyes before answering me.
    "I can't live without them. My dad got me hooked on Twizzlers when I was probably like three years old. I don't think I'd survive more than a day without them. Don't you laugh at me! I don't smoke or drink as much as I use to, so I need me a little Twizzler. Cut me some slack, woman."
    I just added cute to his long list of attributes. I asked about his longest relationship, and all I got was, "Pass, next question please." His response made me happy for some unexplained reason.
    "If you had to lose one of your five senses, which one would it be and why?"
    He took a minute to think about his answer. "Okay, Miss Twenty Questions. Let's start with the process of elimination. If I couldn't see your beautiful face again that would be awful. If I couldn't touch every inch of you, that would be a calamity. If I couldn't hear you cry out my name like you did last night while you were coming deliciously in my lap that would be a fucking travesty. If those lips and tits are any indication of how sweet you'll taste everywhere else, I have to be able to taste you. So, although your scent is intoxicating, Miss Marcus, I'd have to give up my sense of smell."
    WOW , that was not the kind of reply I was expecting. I bravely gave him a light kiss on his lips.
    "That was a very sweet answer Louis, a little R-rated, but still sweet."
    He kissed me on the lips softly for the first time since last night and I almost had a full-on seizure on that park bench. Since I've established that I'm a glutton for punishment, I had to ask him the next question.
    "Why didn't you try and talk to me a few weeks ago at that first party? I thought you didn't like me." That question made him drop the permanent smile he'd had since picking me up that morning. For the first time he looked at a loss for words. I was starting to regret asking him that question. If he told me about his ménage à trois, I'd start crying and die.
    "Emily, you know I couldn't keep my eyes off you that whole night. I just didn't have enough balls to bring myself over to talk to you." He stopped, ran his hand through his thick hair and continued, "I kept waiting for the right moment to get you alone somewhere in a corner away from my clients and colleagues. I had all these people I needed to schmooze. But you kept going in and out of that damn kitchen. I kept losing my nerve. You looked so young. I was worried I'd scare the shit out of you. When the party started winding down, I was coerced into going to see a penthouse in the building next door. One of our new clients was thinking of having us put it on the market for her." He took another deep breath and looked into my eyes. "I thought for sure I'd be back in time to still catch another glimpse of you. I was hoping to get you alone. When I came back the party was over and you were long gone. Only the florist staff was still there taking apart the arrangements."
    His rendition of what really happened that night was so much better than my twisted imagination. I ran my fingers through his thick wavy hair. Louis leaned into my hand and ran his lips along my inner arm.
    He continued his explanation, "The next morning I called Mike and booked Crown Affairs for four more events that