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English. What is the problem?”
    “There isn’t one.”
    “We’ve been friends for a good while, right?” He’d never held her this close before the other day, but he found that he really liked it. He could smell the faint vanilla and wanted to taste the skin behind her ear. He nuzzled it with his nose and placed a soft kiss right below that spot.
    “Right.” The word was breathy and made him think of the noises she made when she was excited.
    “So why don’t you tell me what’s really bothering you.” He moved his mouth lower, to the skin where her neck and shoulder met, with soft pulls and licks. The moan that escaped him made him rethink the tactic he was using to get her to open up to him.
    “I know the women you are usually around are fascinating, exciting, fun… I don’t feel like I’m any of those things. I want to be those things too,” she said, and he had no idea what to say to that. She was all those things plus some. He wanted her to know that.
    He opened his mouth and was cut off with her fingers on his mouth.
    MAYBE PUTTING HER fingers to his lips wasn’t the brightest idea. She was already getting aroused by the soft kisses he was putting on her neck, but touching those full firm lips was too much.
    “It’s all right, Liam. I’m going to get the wine, and we’ll watch the movie.” She went to get off his lap, because any minute she was going to spontaneously combust. Just the other day, she hadn’t thought she could have an orgasm with another party present, but now it seemed like all her body wanted to do was interact with his. Like he was a hose and she was a hydrant or something.
    He pulled her down onto his lap again.
    “Wait a minute, Raina. Damn. Sometimes you say something that throws me for a loop, and it takes a second to search for the answer to a question that makes no sense.”
    “I said never mind.”
    “I know what you said, but that’s not what you meant. I do think you’re fascinating, exciting, and definitely fun. You talk about the other women I was with, and it seems like you think they aren’t like you—and you’re right. They aren’t. But that’s why I’m here with you and not anyone else. I enjoy spending my time with you. We can do anything and it’s interesting. Even sitting around reading the paper together is fun.”
    “How is that fun?”
    “I like having you around. It’s fun to look up and see you sitting there to discuss something or get your opinion or make you laugh.”
    That he was trying to talk her down from this particular ledge was funny because she knew he didn’t stay with women long enough to be familiar with the twists and turns in women’s heads. He was doing a good job, and she was impressed he was trying and not headed for the door.
    “Let’s go take a shower,” he said with a wicked smile on his lips.
    “What?” That suggestion came so far out of left field she had to replay the last few sentences in her mind to find out where that had come from.
    “It’s relaxing, and I don’t think I’ve ever seen your shower. It’ll be my chance to take a look at your private sanctuary.”
    “Ha…really? You could just ask. I’d have given you a tour of the whole place if you wanted.”
    “Let’s go, buttercup.” He gently nudged her to stand up and then prodded her to guide them back to her room.
    “You don’t want to watch the movie?”
    “There’ll be other times to watch. You didn’t seem that interested in it, so let’s find something that does interest you.”
    She was afraid to say anything, lest he know how much she wanted to do this.
    He walked her into the bedroom and let go of her hand. She gathered up the large, fluffy towels she’d never used, feeling they were too decadent to use for just a regular shower.
    She’d thought her shower was so very large, but as she turned on the water and tried to get it to a good temperature, she watched Liam take off his clothes and thought the shower wasn’t going to