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composed, Arie swallowed then she
nodded. “Of course,” she said quickly. “Why wouldn’t I be?” But her voice was
hoarse and just a little bit shaky. Far from convincing, she was forced to
admit. She cleared her throat and tried again. “I’m fine,” she said and this
time her voice was firm, even if strained.
    Rome’s eyes narrowed as he regarded her. “You don’t
sound fine and you don’t look fine, either.” He let her hand go but only so he
could shift the loose strands from her face and tuck them behind her ear. Then
his hand covered hers again. “Nervous?”
    That made her give a shaky chuckle. “Can you tell?”
    His smile deepened. “It’s more than obvious,” he said,
his tone soft and totally nonjudgmental, “but that’s okay. You’re going to a
new country to meet your family-to-be. Who wouldn’t be nervous? Heck, if I were
in your place I’d be shaking in my shoes.”
    She couldn’t help rolling her eyes over that one. “Yeah,
right. You? Scared?”
    “Hey, that’s a sexist remark. What? Men can’t get
scared?” He gave her a look that said he was deeply offended, so offended that
she had to laugh.
    “You’d better fix that pout or I’ll have to kiss you
till you’re blue,” she threatened.
    That got rid of the pout, all right, because his face
immediately broke into a wide grin. “Bring it on, babe. You can punish me any
time.”
    It must have been the fact that they were thirty
thousand feet up in the air or maybe it was her taut nerves snapping. Arie
didn’t know what came over her. Before the words were even out of Rome’s mouth
she’d unsnapped her seatbelt and was leaning over to clasp his face in her
hands. Then, like she’d been starving for this all day, she captured his lips
with hers and kissed him like she would never get enough.
    And he answered in kind. Rome unsnapped his seatbelt,
too, and he lifted the armrest between them then he was pulling her over and
onto his lap where he turned the tables on her, taking full control of the kiss
so she was soon gasping and clinging to him.
    It was exactly what Arie needed to take her mind off her
impending troubles. As Rome’s lips molded to hers she melted into him, letting
his tongue slide into her softness, drawing strength from his embrace.
    “Would you like some w...Oops! Sorry, sir. Ma’am.”
    Arie jumped and drew back just in time to see the
navy-blue drapes closing. “Wha…who was that?”
    When she glanced back at Rome he was smiling. “Well, we
gave the kid an eyeful, that’s for sure.”
    “The flight attendant…” She gave Rome a guilty grin. “I
forgot you’ve got an attendant on this flight. Somehow I keep thinking –
private jet, nobody but us and the pilots.” Then she shrugged. “If I’d
remembered I probably wouldn’t have attacked you like that. Sorry.”
    “I’m not. In fact, I don’t mind if you attack me again,
right about…now.” On the last word he dipped his head to nibble on her ear,
sending sparks shooting right down to that now tingling tip between her legs.
    “Oh, no, you don’t.” Before he could turn her on even
more Arie slid off his lap and plopped back into her seat then folded her hands
in her lap like a good little girl. “We’re going to behave like mature adults. No
more hanky-panky on the plane.”
    He heaved an exaggerated sigh of disappointment. “You
certainly know how to kill a man’s flow.” Then he cocked his head to one side. “Seriously,
we’ve got three more hours to go before we get there. Are you telling me that
I’m going to have to sit over here and keep my hands to myself? Where’s the fun
in that?”
    Arie shrugged. “We passed the first part of the flight
watching movies. Now we can talk.”
    “Boring,” he teased but he shut up when she reached over
and punched him on the arm. “All right, all right. I’ll talk. God, the abuse I
have to put up with.”
    “I want to know more about you,” she said. “Fill me in
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