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     seemed to be burning straight into her skin.
    “Yeah. At this party?”
    His expression looked tense again. Very nearly rattled. He cleared his throat. “I’m
     standing in for my boss. Now, back to Guerrero. You think about what I said, sugar.”
     He smiled in a way that could be called nothing short of possessive. “Tell me your
     name.”
    Trinity swallowed and mustered a defiant look. “Well, it’s not Sugar.” Her voice came
     out sounding small and hesitant, and she forced herself to put some muscle into her
     tone. “Let me go.”
    “Name’s Luke Rider.” His firm mouth curved into a sensual smile that met his eyes,
     and she thought for sure her knees were going to just up and give out on her. “It’s
     most definitely my pleasure to meet you... sugar,” he drawled, sounding every bit
     as lawless as he looked.
    Oh. My. God. Trinity MacKenna had never come across a man that she wanted to jump, then slap,
     then jump all over again the moment she’d met him.
    Uh... uh... uh... Take me now. I’m yours.
    Okay, she’d set a new record. She’d become a complete and total idiot in less than
     two minutes.
    The man—Luke—placed a possessive palm on her waist and took her other hand in his.
     Before she had gathered her thoughts, what few she had left, Luke drew her into the
     crowd of people dancing at the center of the room. “Do you two-step?” he asked, even
     as he led her.
    “Uh, yeah.” Brilliant, Trinity. “It’s, ah, been awhile.” She glanced down at their feet as they moved, and promptly
     imbedded her three-inch spiked heel into the leather toe of his boot, bringing them
     to a halt. Her gaze shot to his and to his credit he didn’t even flinch. “A really
     long while.”
    He grinned, a dimple appearing in one cheek, and she instantly became a dithering
     idiot. Again.
    A-duh-duh-duh.
    “Well, then,” he murmured, moving his mouth close to her ear, “we’ll just have to
     keep at it till it all comes back to you. All right?”
    “O—” Trinity shivered and almost moaned at the feel of his warm breath along her cheek.
     “Okay.”
    And can I have your babies, too?
    What the heck was the matter with her, she wondered, as Luke drew her smoothly into
     the throng of dancers. Sure, she’d gone gaga over guys before—when she was a teenager
     for goodness sake. And those had been the ones in Teen People and Bop magazines. The adorable and unobtainable.
    But this was a man. And God what a man. Certainly just as unobtainable as her childhood
     crushes. Including the fact she was spoken for. More or less.
    Er, good ol’ whatshisname...
    Her pulse rate zoomed past the legal speed limit as they two- stepped to a country-western
     tune that had been popular back when she’d lived on the Flying M. Funny how she could
     still remember all the words. Yet right now she had a hard time remembering what her
     almost-fiance looked like. All she could picture in her mind was this sexy hunk of
     cowboy whose mere presence had fried all the circuits to her brain.
    Cowboy. Jeez! She didn’t do cowboys. Well, not to mention she shouldn’t be doing anyone but the
     man she’d been with for the last couple of years.
    “Are you going to tell me more about you?” Luke’s baritone rumbled as the tune came
     to an end and a much slower song started. “Or am I gonna just have to keep making
     things up in my imagination?”
    Trinity’s whole body went on high alert as he brought her into his embrace for the
     slow dance. She placed her hands lightly on his shoulders—like she was afraid to touch
     him. His jeans-clad hips moved so close to hers that she felt the brush of denim through
     her silky skirt. She gulped and her gaze shot up to his. That couldn’t be his... he
     couldn’t be... it had to be her imagination. He wasn’t aroused, was he?
    Amusement glittered in Luke’s blue eyes as he guided her in a slow and easy turn to
     the music. “Did you drop your voice into that