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Chapter Thirty Three
Katherine felt her heart sink. She couldn't believe it. She had made a fool of herself again. She had given herself to him and he had turned her down... again. She really needed to get her brains checked. How she managed to get turned down twice by the same guy, she couldn't understand.
Panic gripped her and pumped her heart faster. She fought to get a grip on the emotion pushing and pulling inside her. She found her dress and hastily fixed her clothes.
But it was fine. She thought. There would be no falling apart, no moping around, no feeling her heart shatter into a million pieces because her heart was not —repeat not —involved. She was going to handle the situation like a mature adult. Get herself together.
When she was reasonably decent, she exhaled. No need to embarrass herself any further. She started for her bedroom door door, but he moved so swiftly that she didn't even manage to take more than a step towards freedom.
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"Oh, hello. Claire" Katherine replied. "Your sons dragged you here too, huh""Oh, yes" Claire replied. "Oliver has been so excited about this. If I missed it, he would be so upset""Same with Tim. But it's good to be out for something else apart from work" Katherine said.Claire nodded in agreement. "So what's new, Katherine?" she asked after a moment.Katherine grinned at her. "Absolutely nothing, Claire, except the heat" she replied.Claire squinted over her first puff of a cigarette. "I know good and well that something is new. I heard you have a store at Crimson bay. A friend of mine mine saw you with Jensen at the party. So how is it being reunited with your 'best friend' from high school?" she asked.Katherine sighed. She knew Claire. She would pick at facts until she arranged them to her satisfaction."Why are you saying best frien
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Katherine sucked in a deep breath.He studied a batter's stance. "Your legs look sexier in shorts. Long and smooth and tan. Warm, creamy, silk, inviting..... And from where I sit, I can just see down...."Katherine's hands flew to her chest and held the gaping knit top to her breasts.He smiled."Someday, Kitty Kat" he said. "Someday""There won't be a someday, Jensen" she snapped. "Not anymore.""Oh Yes there will be" he stated quietly. His confidence annoyed her. "And we are going to put the past where it belongs." he added.Katherine stared at him. But the words would not come. The rugged face and intense eyes obliterated everything right out of her mind.Jensen curved his fingers about her upper arm just enough to touch her breasts."You are fighting yourself, Kat". His smoldering gaze slid mockingly over her rigid body.
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Thrusting his hand into her hair, he tilted back her head and covered her mouth with his. He didn't ease into the kiss, didn't bother with preliminaries, but stamped his ownership in the most primitive way possible.She instantly yielded, offering sweet surrender in the face of his determined assault. It was that unexpected capitulation that almost sent him over the edge.With an incoherent murmur, her lips softened, parted, encouraging him to plunder within. He didn't need a second invitation. He forged a union between them, mating his tongue with hers. She trembled in his arms, clinging to him as though he alone sustained her. And he, heaven help him, worshiped her with both hands and mouth.Not now. He reminded himself. No matter how much he wanted to.Ultimately, it was that thought that restored his sanity.With a muttered curse, he dragged his mouth from hers. He had made a mistake touching he
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Suddenly, the afternoon had become more torpid than before. Even the insects had ceased their droning buzz. The air was too muggy to inhale. Katherine became aware of her clothing, and every place that it clung damply to her skin. Her hair felt heavy and hot against her neck.A butter colored sun beat down on the earth, which released it's heat in rising shimmers. It was like being in a perfumed sauna—only they weren't naked.She became very conscious of how close to her Jensen was standing, how near her shoulders were to his hips. Mere inches separated their hands on the rope.His scent mingled with myriad others, but she could distinguish it."I shouldn't have said that" she said."It's fine" he said. He lowered his hands and moved away from the swing, keeping his broad back to her."I have to go now. I will go say goodbye to Tim".------------------------"Mom" Tim said as Katherine tucked him into bed that night after his birthday party."Yes, sweetie" Katherine replied as she cove
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Which he did, with a speed that almost swept her off her feet. Pressed to another male body—a very different male body— Katherine struggled against the flood of excitement it stirred, a rebellious sense of pride insisting that she shouldn't surrender to it willy nilly."You didn't ask my permission," she tired at him, her eyes defying his arrogance in assuming he could keep her waiting for hours and still do whatever he wanted with her."No, I didn't." He returned her challenge with blistering mockery. "You can reject me if you want to."Katherine burned. From head to toe she burned with the need to be with him. But she was also very angry with him."How have you been?" she asked, moving to less contentious ground and being deliberately bland so he wouldn't know her whole body was a quiver from being in contact with his again."Very good. Work has been good" he answered, his chin tilting belligerent
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