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It was her. He knew it was her.The
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Dear Reader,I love when a story gra
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Books by Maya BanksHarlequin Desire
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To the kidlets for being so helpful
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Chapter OneChapter TwoChapter Three
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One“Almost enough to make you bel
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Devon winced in sympathy. “Still
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on to relax around his friends.The
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to their bantering as Ryan hurried
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to work for quite some time. He fig
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over the rim. With an apologetic sm
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If she was pregnant, seven months
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and turned anxiously back to Nina.
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and she snatched it away.“Go away
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anger emanating from him. “You’
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envelope containing the check. A re
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One thing was for certain. He wasn
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served him coffee to their rush eng
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to go away. She was tired, worn thi
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he whirled around.“Where the hell
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he demanded. “You look like hell,
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What the hell did you expect? And n
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her on a daily basis and a shabby a
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He sighed. It wasn’t that he’d
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done to him. “We have a hell of a
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maneuvered through traffic. She was
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“Or he,” she said quickly.“Wo
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all the necessary precautions to pr
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“Over my dead body,” she snarle
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panic.Behind her Ryan was silent. D
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feet.”Her mother sighed. “I can
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slipping from his chair and going t
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FourWhen Kelly woke the next mornin
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ack into bed.After a long silence,
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Drawing up her shoulders, she turne
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You’re to rest. Stay off your fee
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when he saw her. “Uh…hi, Kelly.
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together like old times.”Ryan sig
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Kelly had accused him of trying to
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een shoving at him ever since Kelly
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supposed to fly back to New York wi
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“God, stop with the snark. You’
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I’d do it.”“Well, yeah, but a
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FiveKelly sat cross-legged on her b
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your burden.”She opened her mouth
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would consider taking you on this t
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father. Instead of making her feel
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The next morning Ryan gently shook
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arm around her as they exited the p
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and felt an eagerness to explore th
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stuck. Ryan reached down to help he
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elationship with Ryan to ever quest
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“Don’t play dumb. You’re a sm
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for the door.But Jarrod had been ri
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like. Take it easy while I’m gone
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So warm and soft. She sighed in con
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sarong she wore. Her feet were bare
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crazy about. The one who always had
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“I’m here on business. The ques
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my regards to my mother, and while
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She was too angry to give a damn th
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She turned away from him, trying to
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left? He didn’t believe her. She
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with me. Not a thousand miles away
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her mouth away. Her pulse raced and
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Her head dropped down and exhaustio
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I’d like that to be where we end
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permanent break and move on, whatev
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would have a comfortable seat, he h
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“I don’t know yet. I’m not in
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scattered like fairy dust across th
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NineKelly pulled the nightgown over
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Then he stood and pulled her to her
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of his neck.It was the way she’d
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ack of his head, holding him in pla
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lids, and she swallowed against the
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once more as her body flew in about
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Wanting that closeness to him—esp
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down into her eyes.The stark emotio
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steadying breaths. He’d already l
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Her breaths grew more rapid and err
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himself—and her—that he’d put
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saying we have to take a huge leap,
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Eleven“She doesn’t give up, doe
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challenge—in Kelly’s direction,
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caressing hers. “Yeah, it was.”
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“Yet another thing that’s off-l
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sake, Kelly, I’d just found out y
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She had to acknowledge that they ha
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But it was Ryan who seemed to grow
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