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StrokeofMidnight
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Author: Naima Simone
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whatever. He’d stopped listening after the first
mind-numbing round of local gossip.
    Through the long dinner hour, Rowyn had appeared untouched,
even indifferent. Yet he’d spied the flicker of hurt that had darkened her eyes
at Daniel’s callous rebuff. And he’d detected the minute cracks in her armor as
Pamela delivered well-aimed jabs and cutting remarks.
    For an educated woman, you have nothing relevant to add
to this conversation. I wish you would do something with your hair. No wonder a
man isn’t attracted to you.
    Jesus. It almost seemed as if she disliked her
daughter. He had wanted to jump in and demand the older woman lay the fuck off.
He’d wanted to catch Rowyn’s gaze, assure her she wasn’t alone in this battle
that masqueraded as dinner. But Rowyn had studiously avoided making eye contact
with him, and he’d had to swallow his disappointment along with the Sir Galahad
syndrome that had reared its chivalrous head.
    He could have saved his worry, though. Rowyn had taken her
mother’s verbal stabs in stride. If he hadn’t been studying her so closely, he
would have missed the slight tightening of her lips and the small tilt of her
chin.
    Who was Rowyn Jeong? The contained, aloof
businesswoman? Or the sensual, uninhibited lover who had disappeared without a
hint to her existence except for the lingering scent of sex on his bed sheets
and a beautiful necklace and pendant.
    Determined to find out, Darius stepped forward. Her back
stiffened as he approached, but she didn’t turn to face him. He didn’t pause
until the lapel of his jacket grazed the deep-red satin of her dress.
    He shoved his hands in the pockets of his slacks. It was
either that or grab her arms, turn her around and lick the curve of her plump
bottom lip before sliding his tongue deep into the mouth he’d had wet dreams
about.
    Their eyes met and held for a brief space of time in the
darkened window that reflected their images. Unlike Cindy, the top of Rowyn’s
head grazed his chin and he didn’t feel like a hulking giant next to
Thumbelina. From experience, he knew her sexy curves complimented his body like
the perfect puzzle piece. Again and again her breasts had pressed to his chest,
his hips to that beautiful rounded ass. He inhaled. And like a deer scenting
water, his body reacted to her skin’s perfume.
    His breathing deepened. His skin prickled. His cock hardened
to the point of sweet pain. Fuck, the smell of her was like a hot palm
squeezing his dick.
    “Did you just smell my hair?”
    The husky tone contradicted the sharp words. Her back
remained to him, but Darius glimpsed the narrowing of her eyes in the window.
    “Yes, I think I did.” From her silence, he assumed his
candor surprised her. He could have lied. Probably should have. But considering
the lurid images that had been running through his mind from the moment she’d
walked through that living room door over an hour ago, smelling her hair seemed
pretty low on the you’re-a-sick-fuck list. Hell, every time she’d closed her
lips around her fork, he’d pictured Rowyn as she’d been that night—kneeling
before him, her pretty mouth stretched wide around his cock, her moans
vibrating along his skin, dark eyes gleaming with pleasure…
    His skin was tight as shit—a dry-clean-only suit that had
been washed. His cock throbbed and lust gripped his gut in a headlock. In six
months, no other woman had made his dick twitch much less harden to a full
erection. Shit, if not for the fact it jerked and erupted in his hand every
night to thoughts of this woman, he would’ve believed an emergency regimen of
Viagra was in order.
    Rowyn turned to face him. Without flinching, she tilted her
head back to meet his stare. No fidgeting. No hint of coyness. No flirting. And
damn, wasn’t that hot?
    “At the risk of sounding cliché, it’s a very small world,”
Darius murmured. The understatement of the century.
    “Somehow I don’t believe Walt Disney meant
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