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held up her left hand. “See, no ring.”
    He shrugged. “That doesn’t mean anything these days.”
    She frowned as she slid his egg from the frying pan onto the plate. “It would mean something to me.”
    “Okay, so you’re not married. Are you involved in a serious relationship?”
    She set the plate in front of him and gave him a pointed look. “Is there a reason for these questions?”
    He smiled. Because she asked he might as well go ahead and tell her. She was mature enough to handle it. “Yes, there’s a reason. When I get around to kissing you I’ll feel better knowing your mouth doesn’t belong to any other man. Legally or otherwise.”
    She didn’t say anything for a moment. Then she opened her mouth, probably to tell him just where he could take his own mouth—legally or otherwise—but instead of saying anything right then, she just tightened her lips together.
    He chuckled. “Tightening those lips shut won’t keep me from prying them apart for a kiss if that’s what I want to do, Chloe.”
    Chloe folded her arms across her chest. “Is there a reason for this madness?”
    “Is that what this is? Madness?” he asked as he began eating.
    She lifted her chin and glared at him. “You got another name for it?”
    “What about hunger?”
    She frowned. “Hunger?”
    “Yes, hunger of a sexual nature. I need to get you out mysystem and I figured I’ll start by kissing you to see if that will work.”
    Chloe dropped her hands by her side. Not believing he’d said such a thing. And not believing her heart was thumping rapidly in her chest at the thought of him making good on his threat. “You’re nothing like Daren.”
    He raised a dark brow. “Who’s Daren?”
    “The last guy I was involved with.”
    Ramsey ignored the twinge of jealousy that invaded his gut. “Is not being like Daren good or bad?”
    She shrugged. “Not sure. Although, I think it would have been nice if he would have had even a fraction of that hunger thing.”
    He immediately caught on to what she’d insinuated. “I can’t imagine any man hanging around you for long without wanting to gobble you alive. He must have been a real idiot.”
    Chloe kept herself from smiling and refused to admit she’d thought the same thing. “He had his own ideas about what down to earth lovemaking was about. He suggested that we participate in a threesome.”
    Ramsey frowned. He could handle the fact that her ex-boyfriend hadn’t had a passionate bone in his body, but the thought that the man had actually wanted to share her with someone else was as demented as it could get. No man in his right mind would share her.
    “Then he wasn’t just an idiot,” Ramsey spoke up to say. “He was a crazy idiot. Any man who could get it into his mind to share you evidently doesn’t have the brain he was born with. There’s no way I would consider doing such a thing. I would want you all to myself.”
    His gaze roamed over her. “It would be me and me alone who would leave a satisfied smile on your lips, Chloe.”
    Chloe felt a tightening in her stomach as his gaze slowly swept over her, lingering in certain places and bestowing a visual caress in others. And his deep seductive voice was stirring all kinds of sensations to life inside her.
    “How long were you with this guy?”
    She wondered why he wanted to know. “A year.”
    “And how long have the two of you been apart?”
    Chloe wasn’t sure why he wanted to know that, either. Why she’d even shared anything with him about Daren in the first place was a mystery to her. But she had and evidently he was curious. “Two years. Now if you will excuse me I’m about to tackle the dishes.”
    Ramsey watched her walk off over to the sink and, since she was doing her best to ignore him, he dug into his meal. Not surprisingly, everything was delicious and for the first time in a long while, he was enjoying his food. He was also enjoying watching Chloe while he ate. If she only knew all the