Suzanne Brockmann - Team Ten 10 - Taylor's Temptation Read online

  "Ash is very warm."

  "Yeah, well..."

  She narrowed her eyes at him. "Her warmth has nothing to do with it. What you really mean is that she's too skinny. She's not stacked enough for Spaceman, is that what you're trying to say?"

  "Yes. Don't you hate him now? Thank God he's not coming to the wedding."

  She laughed and his chest got even tighter. He wanted to kiss her, but that would mean that he'd have to stop looking at her, and he loved looking at her.

  "Didn't he have that friend who started that camp—you know, mock SEAL training for corporate executives?" she asked. "Kind of an Outward Bound program for business geeks? Someone—Rio, I think—was telling me about it."

  "Yeah," Bobby said, settling on sliding his hand up beneath the edge of her T-shirt and running his fingers across the smooth skin of her back. "Randy Something—former SEAL from Team Two. Down in Florida. He's doing really well—he's constantly understaffed."

  "Ashley wants to do something like that," Colleen told him. "Can you find out Randy's phone number so I can give it to her?"

  Ashley DeWitt, in her designer suits, would last about ten minutes in the kind of program Randy ran. But Bobby kept his mouth shut because, who knows? Maybe he was wrong. Maybe she'd kick butt.

  "Sure," he said. "I'll call Spaceman first thing tomorrow."

  Colleen touched his face. "Thank you," she said. And he knew she wasn't talking about his promise to call Space-

  man. She'd read his mind, and was thanking him for not discounting Ashley. "I love you so much."

  And that feeling in his chest got tighter than ever.

  "I love you, too," he told her. He'd started telling her that whenever he got this feeling. Not that it necessarily made his chest any less tight, but it made her eyes soften, made her smile, made her kiss him.

  She kissed him now, and he closed his eyes as he kissed her back, losing himself in her sweetness, pulling her closer, igniting the fire he knew he'd feel for her until the end of time.

  "We'll be late for the movie," she whispered, but then whooped as he swung her up into his arms and carried her down the hall to the bedroom.

  "What movie?" Bobby asked, and kicked the bedroom door closed.

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