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undivided attention, I owe them,” she said.
    “Why do you owe them?” he asked. He wanted to know more about what had happened ten years agoand he was determined to get some answers, but not right now.
    “I just do.”
    He nodded. “Well, I owe my brothers, and my company deserves my undivided attention, but I can’t think of business when I’m with you. Right now all I can think of is your mouth and how it will feel under mine.”
    “Saying things like that is not helping me,” she said, closing her eyes and wrapping her arms around her own waist.
    If he pushed a little bit harder he could have her. He knew that. But he didn’t want to crumble her defenses. He pulled her closer to him and moved them off the path out of the way of other walkers. “Have you thought about it?”
    She nibbled on her full lower lip as she looked up at him. “I have, but I’m not about to play into your hands so easily.”
    He lowered his head, wanting to kiss her but at the same time wanting—no needing—her to want it too. He wanted her to be so attracted to him that she forgot her rules and her fears and everything else just faded away.
    “Justin, stop manipulating me.”
    “I’m not,” he said. “I want to see what it will take for you to forget about business and just see me as a man.”
    “Stop trying to play me,” she said. “Just be yourself.”
    “I don’t think you’d trust me,” he said.
    “I don’t trust you now,” she said. “And that feeling that you are toying with me is never going to help your case. I do want you but I don’t want to be your pawn.”
    Her honesty cut straight through him. He really didn’twant her to be his pawn. He wanted her to be his woman. That was it.
    He needed Selena no matter what the circumstances. And he was going to do whatever he had to to make that happen. He couldn’t just walk away.
    “I’m sorry. I was trying—”
    “I know what you were trying to do,” she said, lifting one hand and tracing the line of his lips. “I can understand it because I don’t want to end up the weak one either.”
    He could hardly think when she touched him. He slid his hands together at her waist and pulled her more closely into his body.
    He rubbed his lips against hers briefly and then stepped back before he gave in to temptation and ravished her mouth.
    “We need…to walk,” he said.
    He took her hand with his and led her down the path. She laughed softly and he knew she was very aware of his desire. That didn’t bother him at all. He wanted her to be very aware of him as a man and he knew that he’d accomplished that.
    “We can’t walk away from this,” he said.
    “I know,” she admitted. “But I won’t let this kind of attraction take control of my life.”
    He understood that. As a man, part of him was glad to hear that she wanted him that powerfully. The other part, the businessman who never took a day off, was glad to hear it, too, because it meant that he had the potential to use that attraction to get what he wanted.
    Walking took the edge off her and allowed him to start thinking of something other than lifting her skirt and finding the sweetness between her legs. “What if we pretend you are on vacation?”
    “Why?”
    “Then it’s like you said, we’re just two people who are attracted to each other.”
    “Like a vacation fling?” she asked.
    “Exactly like that. No talking about our families and their business interests. Just two people who’ve met and started an affair,” he said.
    “So it ends when I go back home?” she asked.
    His gut said no. He didn’t want to think about Selena leaving but he put that down to the fact that she was new to him. “If that is what we both decide, then yes.”
    She pulled her hand from his, stopped walking and turned to look out at the ocean. She wrapped one arm around her waist and he wondered if he’d ever know her well enough to know what she was thinking.
    “I wish it could be that simple,” she said,