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and slightly embarrassed. She ran
her fingers over her lips, feeling almost uncertain if that heavenly kiss even
happened.
    “Ryan, did I do something wrong?”
    His eyes were filled with desire as he slowly perused her
beautiful face, her long neck, her smooth shoulders, her firm breasts, and her
taught belly while the water from the pool covered the rest of her body from
his easy gaze. But his silence was unnerving. What was he thinking?
    “Ashley,” she hardly recognized the husky sound of his
voice. With his forehead pressed gently to hers he said, “Ash, we need to
talk.” She looked up at him with a confused but hungry gaze.
    “Ok, Ryan, let’s talk.” Ashley wasn’t certain as to what was
going on in this beautiful man’s mind, but by the steamy look in his golden
flecked eyes, she knew, if for some reason she had banged her head when she
dove into the pool earlier and she was drowning…she didn’t ever want to be
rescued.

 

     
     
    I Know You Do
     
    Two
months later…
     
     
    “I’M SO GLAD you came to your senses
and quit your job before school started, Princess,” Ryan murmured in her ear.
The tip of his tongue traced the edges of Ashley’s ear causing chills to run
down her spine. The sensations ran through her body like electricity through
her veins. The goose bumps on her arms were a giveaway and she heard Ryan’s
deep chuckle. He knew exactly the effect that particular action had on her, and
consequently he did it as often as possible.
    “I didn’t quit, I took a leave of absence for the month.
Mmm, Ryan, you know I can’t think straight when you’re doing that to me,”
Ashley purred. Shallow breaths and a racing pulse had her words choppy and
hoarse. Her eyes hooded as her long lashes splayed gently across her skin each
time she blinked. The couple was in her bedroom writing lyrics for the band’s
up and coming album and East coast tour. Ashley loved writing the songs for Storm
Front . While she had no aspirations for stardom, getting her thoughts and
feelings down on paper had always been somewhat therapeutic for her. Ashley
still rolled her eyes every time Leo tried to use his lame excuse as to how
he’d discovered her writing talent.
    When she was fifteen, Leo had “mistakenly” found her
journal. According to him he had then “accidently” dropped it on the floor,
opening to give him access to her secret thoughts. He claimed he couldn’t help
but to read them, citing his captivation as a half-hearted excuse for his
blatant prying. That was when Leo started begging his little sister to write
the songs for his new band.
    The guys in Storm Front thought her lyrics were
fantastic and said her hooks were contagious. But Ashley knew that when she and
Ryan collaborated the songs they created were unbelievable. So, while she still
wrote the majority of the bands lyrics, she and Ryan would get together once or
twice a week to work on new material. Since they’d started dating they’d spent
a whole lot more time writing than they ever had in the past.
    That afternoon, they really had started out writing, but as
the lyrics became more intense, so did their gazes. With each second that
passed, the atmosphere between them became more and more charged until keeping
things professional was no longer an option. One glance reassured her that she
wasn’t the only one having difficulty maintaining concentration.
    She still couldn’t believe that Ryan Baker was hers. She
wanted to lick his smooth tan skin. To graze the tips of her fingers over the
shadow of the dark scruff that covered his jaw line. So that’s what she did.
    At her touch his eyes went molten. “It’s hard enough to
concentrate when you look at me the way you do, Princess, but when you touch
me…” A deep growl sounded at the back of Ryan’s throat and he lifted Ashley’s
face to his, consuming her lips with a deep hungry kiss. The moment he touched
her, time stood still. Once his body pressed against hers