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never have to have either her name or her face shown.” Elijah had studied that part of it a great deal. “I have to convince her to marry me first. I don’t think that is going to be all that easy.”
    “No, it won’t.” Noah stood up and smiled down at him. “But I have every confidence in you that you will persevere.” The door opened to his office, and he stood up as well when he saw Noelle standing there. When Noah said that he was leaving, he turned and winked at him. He nodded to Noelle when he moved out of the room.
    “I didn’t mean to interrupt your meeting.” He said that it was over. “Your butler, Mr. Casen, showed me around. He is very proud of the improvements you made here. He said that you’ve made the place a showcase. I have to agree with him.”
    “Casen has a tendency to over tell a story at times. And the only improvements I have made are the ones that he’s nagged me about. He is quite the nagger, you’ll find out.” When she didn’t move into the office any further, he got up to go to her. Seeing her stiffen, he sat on the corner of his desk instead. “Did you like the house? I like the place all right, I guess. And I have done some improvements on it, but if you don’t care for it, we can look for something else.”
    “And you would do that, just on the say of me not liking this house?” He nodded. “That’s not right. This is your home. You bought and paid for it. Made it look the way you wanted it to. Why would my opinion matter to you in anyway?”
    “Because I want you to be happy wherever we live.” She frowned at him, and he laughed. “What I mean is, this is not a home. Not to me. My parents’ place is a home. My brother’s place, that’s a home too. Even the cabin that they stay at in the mountains, that’s a home. But here? This is a place that I slept when I was too tired to go to the apartment I have in town. On occasion had a meal in. My family has been over a few times, but I think this place is cold. That is, until you got here.”
    “You think I warmed your house up?” He nodded and stood up. He moved toward her slowly so as not to scare her. “If I may be honest with you, this is just the kind of house that I had in mind when I won the money. I had much smaller dreams before that. A one or two-bedroom house, a big yard in the front and back. Trees, too, and a little garden in the back for me to grow things in. You’re too close again.”
    “No, I’m not close enough. Not yet anyway.” He kissed her gently but wanted more. “I’d like for you to warm this house up. Put a part of yourself here, pieces of your heart, as it were, around so that I can see that you live here with me.”
    “I don’t have anything of my own.” He nodded and moved her head so that he could nibble on her throat. “I don’t have any books. Not a single plant. The furniture I had in the other place was things that I picked up at garage sales and auctions. I can’t talk to you about this when you do that.”
    “Good. Since you came into my life, I’ve not been able to think at all, much less talk in a way that makes any sense.” He picked her up in his arms. “Did you see the bedroom? I’d like to show you the bed right now. How bouncy it is. The way the mattress holds me up when I lay on it.”
    Her giggle had him pausing on the steps. He would bet his life savings on the fact that she didn’t do that much, especially not lately. Elijah decided that he was going to make her laugh as much as he could from now on.
    “I don’t like sex.” He nearly fell going into the bedroom when she made that confession. “I mean, I’ve not had it a great deal—once or twice—but it’s sort of boring, don’t you think?”
    “Boring? Not if you do it right.” He dropped her on the bed. “Maybe it’s the guy you were with. He might not have known what to do.”
    She bounced twice before she sat up. “He said he did. Told me that women all over the world would line up to