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good-looking, but what made my hands clench was the little indentations on each side of his hips… you know that hollow indent that really in-shape guys got that led all the way to… well, to you know where.
     
    I had this incredible urge to reach out and run my fingers over that part of him, to follow it to the very spot where it ended.
     
    “Earth to Harlow,” Cam called, leaning down and looking in the window.
     
    I jumped like I was just caught robbing a bank and hurried to open the door. It swung open a lot easier than I thought and it smacked into Cam, making him grunt and double over.
     
    “Cam!” I gasped, shutting the door and rushing to his side. “I’m such a klutz! Did I hurt you?”
     
    I placed a hand on his shoulder and leaned down just as he was standing up, and his head caught my cheek.
     
    When we smacked together, I shrieked and stumbled backward as searing pain cracked across my cheekbone.
     
    A string of curse words fell from his lips and he grabbed my head, angling it back and turning my face so he could see me under the dim lights of the parking lot.
     
    “How old are you?”
     
    “Why, do I have wrinkles?” I asked, watching him study my face.
     
    He rolled his eyes. “No, you do not have wrinkles.”
     
    “I’m twenty-one.”
     
    “How in the hell have you managed to keep yourself alive for twenty-one years?” he wondered as he smoothed the pad of his thumb across the tender flesh on my face.
     
    It hurt, but I barely noticed. Every time he got close to me, it’s like my brain went into some other universe, and in that universe everything consisted of only him.
     
    His words followed my brain into that universe and I bristled. “I beg your pardon?”
     
    He snorted. “Please. Like you don’t know what I’m talking about.”
     
    “I’ve managed just fine!”
     
    He dropped his hands—clearly deciding I wasn’t that hurt—and smirked. “Since I’ve met you, you have tripped and fallen over a pair of flip-flops, fell onto a table, spilled beer all over two guys, managed to murder the battery on your car, fallen over while getting off my bike, hit me with the car door, and then slammed your face into my head.”
     
    “You hit me!” I growled, but in the back of my mind, I was thinking about that impressive list. Wow, I was practically a walking apocalypse. I reached up and brushed the still-stinging area and prayed I wasn’t going to get a black eye. That would not be good for tips.
     
    He palmed my face again, tilting my head back and studying it again. “Still hurt?” he asked low.
     
    I nodded.
     
    He bent, his breath brushing across my face before he pressed his lips not once, not twice, but three times over the area. They were feather-light kisses, but they mowed me over like a Mack truck.
     
    “I’m sorry I hit you, baby. I’ll make it better.” Then he kissed me again.
     
    I reached up and wrapped my fingers around his wrists. My heart thudded so unevenly it was hard to breathe. I felt lightheaded from his kisses, and all I could think about was getting just one more.
     
    “Feel better?” he murmured as I clutched him to me. My eyes fluttered open and met his, which were so dark they looked like glittering black pearls.
     
    I nodded just slightly. I did feel better… I couldn’t even remember what hurt in the first place.
     
    His lips quirked up in a half smile and then he kissed me again.
     
    On the lips.
     
    It was another one of those feather-light brushes, but oh my God, every single place inside me felt it. Something deep within me opened, something I hadn’t even realized was closed… like there was this secret place and the combination to enter was his lips.
     
    I made a soft sound as he lifted his head, so he came back, giving me just one more short taste.
     
    His hands fell away from me and he stepped back, but I couldn’t move. I couldn’t even breathe. The only thing I could do was stand there and let the sensation