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a lot on their plate.”
    She sighed and started to turn. Talking with him was ridiculous. He wasn’t thrilled about her return and trying to make him converse with her was getting old. She knew when to cut her losses.
    “Wait,” he told her. “I wasn’t saying that like you don’t have anything going on. I just meant my life is going through a rough patch, yours just happens to be splashed all over the TV for all to see.”
    Corinne faced him again and nodded. “Sometimes it sucks to be famous. All I wanted was a way out, and I was making really good money…”
    She didn’t want to travel down that path of thoughts because the ending wasn’t a pretty sight.
    But speaking of pretty sights, Dylan without his shirt, as a grown man who had muscles, thanks to hard work and heavy lifting, was most definitely a sight she wouldn’t mind looking at for a long, long time. Added to that, the glow from the moon and the soft light behind him only illuminated those chiseled biceps. Mercy, why was she still so attracted to the man? She hadn’t seen him in over a decade, yet there was still some sort of pull there.
    “You shouldn’t run out here alone at night.” Dylan came to his feet, causing her to step back a tad. “It’s dark and it makes you too vulnerable.”
    Corinne pushed her hair, which the wind kept whipping around, back from her face. “I’m not vulnerable, Dylan, and the crime in this area is near nonexistent. I’m not worried.”
    He reached out, slid a fingertip over her bare shoulder. “Maybe things have changed since you’ve been gone.”
    “You’re telling me crime shot up?” she asked, praying he didn’t feel the goose bumps his light touch had caused.
    “Not crime,” he admitted, stroking the tip of that same finger back down her arm. He reached between her arm and her torso and cupped the side of her waist, right above her shorts. “But other things have changed.”
    His warm, strong hand holding firm on her body made her wish he’d pull her hard against him and make her forget everything. And from the flash she could see in his eyes, he was just as hungry for contact as she was.
    “You?” she asked. “Have you changed, Dylan?”
    His thumb stroked over her as he stepped closer. “I’m not as gentle as I used to be. Not as patient.”
    The image of him coming down the hall to see her parents flashed in her mind. She knew the man was more caring and loving than any other man she’d met since leaving Georgia.
    “You don’t scare me,” she whispered.
    His eyes held hers. “I should. You don’t know what’s going through my mind right now, Cori.”
    Her breasts grew heavy as they pressed against her tight sports bra. “I have a good idea. But it’s not you that scares me. It’s this moment.”
    Dylan’s thumb stilled, his head tipped. “This moment?”
    Corinne swallowed and decided to just lay all her cards on the table. “I’m afraid of these emotions that have resurfaced since seeing you again. But most of all I’m afraid if I turn and keep running I’ll regret not telling you that I…”
    Dylan’s other hand came up to cup her cheek. His thumb slid along her lips. “Telling me what, Cori?”
    “That I want you.”

Chapter Four
    It was pretty damn hard to do what your mind was telling you and what your hormonal body was yelling at you to do when they were polar opposites.
    “Why can’t I say no to you?” he murmured. “I couldn’t years ago and I sure as hell can’t now. I won’t even try.”
    His inability to refuse her blatant offer could have something to do with her nearly naked body that had literally appeared on the beach as he was thinking of her—and the fact that he couldn’t stop touching her. All that silky skin exposed, begging, needing to be touched. And he was going to give in to this desire, this urge, because, damn it, he was an adult and there was nothing stopping them.
    So what if they had a past? If this was any other woman who’d moved