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  Kayla’s voice caught. “I would have loved that too.”

  “And then I was going to tell you to pack your things because I was taking you back to Montana with me. I was going to tell you that we were going to get married as soon as possible.”

  He lifted her chin, about to cover her mouth with his in another bone-meltingly delicious kiss, but she stopped him with one hand on his chest and a dangerous glint in her eye. “Tell, not ask?”

  Cal smiled. “You know, you still owe me a steak dinner.”

  “Tell, not ask?”

  He was grinning at her. “I am so damn glad to see you—”

  “Tell, not ask?”

  “Yeah,” he finally answered her. “Tell. Not ask. I figure since it’s the first and last time I’m ever going to be so damned selfish, I might as well go big. Because I figure that from the moment you say that marrying me is okay with you, I’m going to spend every waking moment of the rest of my life giving you everything your heart desires.”

  He bent to kiss her, and this time she didn’t push him away.

  “Marrying you is okay with me,” she whispered, her lips a breath away from his.

  Cal smiled and kissed her.

  About the Author

  Since her explosion onto the publishing scene more than ten years ago, Suzanne Brockmann has written more than forty books, and is now widely recognized as a leading voice in romantic suspense. Her work has earned her repeated appearances on USA Today and New York Times Bestseller lists, as well as numerous awards, including Romance Writers of America’s #1 Favorite Book of the Year—three years running in 2000, 20001, and 2002—two RITA awards, and many Romantic Times Reviewer’s Choice Awards. Suzanne Brockmann lives west of Boston with her husband, author Ed Gaffney. Visit her website at www.suzannebrockmann.com.

  Other Titles by Suzanne Brockmann

  FORBIDDEN

  INTO THE STORM

  LADIES’ MAN

  HEARTTHROB

  BODYGUARD

  THE UNSUNG HERO

  THE DEFIANT HERO

  OVER THE EDGE

  OUT OF CONTROL

  INTO THE NIGHT

  GONE TOO FAR

  FLASHPOINT

  HOT TARGET

  BREAKING POINT

  FORBIDDEN

  A Bantam Book

  PUBLISHING HISTORY

  Bantam Loveswept mass market edition published April 1997

  Bantam mass market edition / October 2007

  Published by

  Bantam Dell

  A Division of Random House, Inc.

  New York, New York

  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

  All rights reserved

  Copyright © 1997 by Suzanne Brockmann

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