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breast, and moved his other hand to her face, stroking her cheek softly.

    The weight of his body pressed her into the sheets, and she wrapped her legs around him, wanting him as close as she could possibly get him.

    “Well, well, well,” he said, pulling back. “Getting a little aggressive, are you, Princess?” Then he frowned. “What the hell is that?”

    “What the hell is what?” Anna asked. She was breathless, and frustrated that he’d taken his mouth off hers.

    “That vibrating.”

    Anna tried to listen over the beating of her own heart. She didn’t hear anything, but she felt something. Something was vibrating in the bed.

    She reached her hand toward the direction of the sound, and pulled her cell phone out from under the sheets.

    “Oh,” Jaxon said. “I thought maybe you were trying to get kinky.” He raised his eyebrows up and down, and then rolled his eyes, like the thought of Jaxon Hale having to bring a vibrator into the bedroom was preposterous.

    “It’s Katie,” Emma said, setting the phone down on her nightstand.

    “Are you going to answer it?” Jaxon asked, knowing full well she wasn’t.

    “No.”

    “Are you sure?”

    The phone stopped ringing, then immediately started ringing again. And then, a few seconds later, a text message popped onto the screen.

    Anna reached for it.

    “Holy shit,” she said, her eyes widening. “Katie’s in labor.”

    ***

    Of all the times to go into labor. His sister just had to pick the exact moment when he was about to make love to Anna. Talk about bad timing.
    Jaxon didn’t know how or why he’d ended up at Anna’s house. After she’d left Katie’s baby shower, he’d felt a weird pang of emptiness. It was an uncomfortable feeling, one he wasn’t used to, and so he’d ignored it for as long as he could, flirting with the brunette, mingling with the guests, helping Katie and Adam clean up once everyone had left.
    When Katie and Adam had gone to bed, Jaxon had pulled out his laptop and started researching some new properties online. But he couldn’t stop thinking about Anna. Her smile. Those long legs. That tiny little scarlet bikini.
    He felt like he was going stir crazy, so he’d left Katie’s house in search of something to eat. All Katie and Adam had in the house was organic, free-range bullshit, and Jaxon wanted McDonald’s.
    But he hadn’t ended up at McDonald’s.
    Instead, he drove to Anna’s neighborhood, remembering the countless times he’d climbed up that ladder and into her bedroom. Back in those days, he’d park his car around the corner in case her parents happened to look outside. This time, he parked right in front of the house.
    But old habits die hard, and a second later he’d found himself throwing rocks at Anna’s window. He’d climbed up the ladder, hoping it would still hold him – he’d probably put on twenty or so pounds of muscle since he was a teenager – and then slipped into her room.

    He’d loved teasing her, loved the way her body had begun to respond to his. And then, suddenly, his sister had called.

    And now he was on his way to the hospital. The last place he wanted to go was the hospital. But the last thing he wanted to do was leave Anna. And so he’d offered to drive her.

    “Do you know where you’re going?” Anna asked from the passenger seat.

    “Of course I know where I’m going,” Jaxon said. “Why wouldn’t I?”

    “I don’t know.” She cleared her throat and looked out the window. “I just didn’t know if you remembered how to get there.”

    “How could I forget?” He reached over and hit the button for the sunroof. Warm air filled the car and moonlight shone down on them, making it feel like a lazy summer night. “Don’t you remember that time I had to drive you there?”

    Anna nodded. “I remember it because you almost fainted.”

    Jaxon frowned. “I didn’t almost faint.” It was a lie, of course. He had almost fainted.

    He remembered it like it was