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taste of her kisses. The way she’d moaned his name. How her breath caught as he slid deep inside her. The fact that her hunger for him had matched his need for her.
    â€œSebastian?”
    He wrenched his attention back to her face. “Yes?”
    â€œI said, if you’ve come to drag me back to work, I’m not going without a fight.”
    For a second, the notion of tossing her over his shoulder and carrying her back to his suite blocked every sane thought in his head. “I’m not paying you to sit by the pool.”
    â€œThen consider this a vacation day. I have plenty to burn.”
    â€œYou picked a hell of a time to go AWOL.”
    She sighed. “Everything is organized. The summit doesn’t start until the cocktail party tonight. There’s plenty of time for me to have a little fun. You should, too.”
    â€œI’m not here to have fun,” he reminded her.
    She wrinkled her nose. “Yes, I know. But you’re so prepared you could probably do the entire summit in your sleep. Why don’t you relax a little today?”
    â€œHow do you suggest I do that?”
    She stopped in the act of spreading lotion on her arm and brought her gaze to bear on him. The unbridled hope in her eyes twisted his gut. Was he that much of a tyrant?
    â€œYou could start by buying me a drink.”
    â€œIt’s ten o’clock in the morning.”
    She snapped the lid of the suntan lotion closed and picked up a beige sun hat, adorned with blue forget-me-nots. Once she set it on her head, the wide brim hid her expression from him.
    â€œMake it an orange juice.”
    Sebastian held his hand out to Missy and braced himself for the contact with her skin. She wiped lotion from her palms before giving Sebastian her hand. As expected, a pulse of fire sped up his arm and struck below his belt. He released her before the temptation to pull her close gave him away. Instead, he set his palm at the small of her back and nudged her toward the tiki-style bar.
    From beneath her ruddy lashes, she peered his way. “I’m sorry I ran off without telling you this morning.”
    â€œI’m sorry you felt you had to.”
    â€œAm I hearing things or did the never-wrong Sebastian Case just apologize to his lowly assistant?” Laughter brightened the green in her eyes.
    â€œI’m wrong on occasion and am not such an ass that I can’t admit it.” Driven by compulsions too strong to fight, he grazed his fingertips upward until he encountered bare skin. “And you are far from lowly.”
    A faint tremor beneath his hand told him she found the skin-to-skin contact as disturbing as he did. This attraction between them was a distraction he couldn’t afford.
    He directed her on top of the only empty stool and stoodbehind her. Her sun-warmed shoulder brushed his chest as he leaned forward to order her a drink, increasing his temperature even further. With a dismayed sound, she scooted away.
    â€œYou’re going to ruin your suit if you get suntan lotion on it.”
    â€œI don’t care.”
    â€œHow can you not care?” she countered. “You spend a fortune on your clothes.”
    He lifted a shoulder. He’d ruin a hundred suits if it meant being close to her. The scent of suntan lotion rising off her skin aroused the craving to strip that boring bathing suit off her body and determine if the sun had marked her gorgeous pale flesh.
    She gasped as he hooked a finger beneath her bathing suit strap and tugged it out of place. “What are you doing?”
    â€œMaking sure you aren’t getting too much sun.”
    â€œWhen you touch me, I have trouble thinking straight,” she whispered.
    Her admission awakened a rumble of pleasure. “You shouldn’t say things like that.”
    â€œI don’t understand what’s going on between us.”
    Nor did he. “Nothing is going on.”
    â€œWe made love last night.”
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