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    Talon shrugged her touch away. That was one mark he would never talk about to an uninitiated human. "It's nothing."
    It was then her gaze fell to his erection. Her face turned as pink as the towel. "Sorry," she said quickly. "I tend to not think before I act."
    "I noticed." But what made it so bad was that she continued to stare at his erection. She had yet to look anywhere else.
    "You really are a
big
man."
    For the first time in over a thousand years, he felt his cheeks warm. Grabbing the towel, Talon covered himself.
    Only then did she look away. "Here, let me get you a razor." She dropped to her knees, giving him a nice view of her bottom as she rummaged around in a makeshift pink wicker cabinet next to the pedestal sink. Her hips moved provocatively as she searched, only adding to his desire.
    He clenched his teeth. That woman had the sexiest bottom he'd ever seen. One that made his groin burn even more as he thought about lifting that gauzy skirt and burying himself deep inside her. Of sliding himself in and out of her moist heat until they were both sweaty and spent.
    Oh yeah, she was definitely a woman who could satisfy a man. He'd always been partial to women with lush curves and…
    She emerged with a pink razor and toothbrush.
    Talon curled his lip at the thought of using such girly items. "Do you own anything not pink?"
    "I have a purple razor if you'd rather."
    "Please."
    She pulled out a darker pink one.
    "That's not purple," Talon said. "It's pink too."
    She rolled her eyes at him. "Well, that's all I have unless you want my X-Acto blade."
    Extremely tempted, he took the razor from her.
    Sunshine didn't move until he got into the claw-footed tub and pulled the shower curtain closed. Only then did she allow herself to bite her knuckles at the luscious view of his naked backside. She was definitely going to have to sketch him.
    That man was
hot
. Burning. And every time he spoke with that wildly exotic accent of his, she melted. It sounded like some unique combination of English and Scottish.
    Fanning her face, she forced herself to leave the bathroom and head back to her kitchen. But what she really wanted to do was peel her clothes off, climb into the shower behind him, and lather that lush, tall, lean body of his until he begged her for mercy.
    The feel of all that supple, hard skin under her hands… Heaven. Pure heaven.
    And he hadn't even gotten mad about his pants! She still couldn't believe how well he took it all. Normally, guys would be shouting at her by now and she'd be giving them the heave-ho out the door.
    But he had merely shrugged it off. Oooo, she liked that.
    Now that she thought about it, he really didn't have a whole range of emotions that he showed. He was patience incarnate, which was a very nice change of pace.
    "Hey, Steve?" she called.
    "My name isn't Steve," he said from the shower. "It's Talon."
    "Talon what?"
    "Just Talon."
    She smiled. Talon. It suited him.
    "What did you want?" he called.
    "What?" she asked.
    "You called me like you had a question. What do you need?"
    Sunshine bit her lip as she tried to remember. Oops. "I forgot."
    She actually heard him laugh. Wow. That was a first. By now most guys would be flaming mad at her.
    Sunshine spent the next five minutes trying to find her sketchbook, which she had somehow placed in the refrigerator. Again. She took a seat at her breakfast counter and started sketching her newest find.
    Talon.
    She took her time drawing the well-sculpted planes of his face, the intricate tattoo on his body. She'd never seen any man with proportions more perfect. And before she knew it, she was lost in those lines. Lost in her mind as she let her creativity flow and reproduce the things she found so incredibly fascinating about the man in her shower.
    Before she realized how much time had passed, he turned the shower off and came out from behind the curtain with a damp towel draped around his lean hips.
    Oh, mama.
    Sunshine once again felt the