In the Line of Fire (2011)
“Andi was still standing by the bed but Colton was very much aware that Burt would be returning soon to deliver the basket. Colton turned on the air conditioner. “Let’s get some air circulating in here.”
It was stuffy with everything closed. Hell, maybe he was warmer than normal, perhaps because he’d lost sight of normal somewhere along the way. His normal was burying his feelings for Andi, keeping the attraction at bay, not acting on it. His normal was remembering she was his best friend’s sister, that he was a soldier who’d be going back into a war situation, that she’d always been off-limits, that they didn’t have a future together.
And somehow, somewhere along the line all of that had shifted. Was it when he’d helped her run away from her wedding? Was it the moment he decided to come with her? Was it unbuttoning her dress or those two potent kisses? Or the yearning that had swirled and wrapped around the two of them all afternoon until he’d wondered if he had lost his last bit of r...ational thought?MoreLess
It was stuffy with everything closed. Hell, maybe he was warmer than normal, perhaps because he’d lost sight of normal somewhere along the way. His normal was burying his feelings for Andi, keeping the attraction at bay, not acting on it. His normal was remembering she was his best friend’s sister, that he was a soldier who’d be going back into a war situation, that she’d always been off-limits, that they didn’t have a future together.
And somehow, somewhere along the line all of that had shifted. Was it when he’d helped her run away from her wedding? Was it the moment he decided to come with her? Was it unbuttoning her dress or those two potent kisses? Or the yearning that had swirled and wrapped around the two of them all afternoon until he’d wondered if he had lost his last bit of r...ational thought?MoreLess
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