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Then as the conversation would draw near its end, their voices would groer and softer and their words more intense "I miss you, mija," he would say, his voice husky "I can’t wait until you threaten ain I think you’re all talk and you’ve lost interest inyour heart is still a huge priority with h"

"I o en mis brazos" I will hold you in my arms "Te querido er than you know "I will kiss you as much as you allow," he translated incorrectly It sent shivers through her

Novehts to the Sacramento valley, and she heard on the news that snow had fallen in the h the Trinity Alps to Virgin River could be closed now and any trip o from Sacrahway 36 was treacherous and slow even in the best weather, but it was spectacular Brie spent a lot of ti about which route she would take when she eventually decided it was tiin River

She told her sisters about him, but only one at a time, and sometimes in hushed tones that she knew became a little breathless "He speaks to me in Spanish, in low, sexy Spanish, and then he lies about what he’s said, thinking I don’t know"

"What does he say?" Jeannie asked her

"He’ll say so like, ‘I want to hold you and make love to you,’ and pretends he has said he would like to kiss ain? Intimacy of that kind? Are you ready for that?"

"I’ for it," she said "I want hih?"

"When I’m with him, I feel completely safe Nurtured Protected He doesn’t hurry me--he’s very kind Very cautious He’s the only kind of ht now, and he knows that" She shivered and said in a low breath, "But there’s a fire in him I can feel it" She took a deep breath

She’d been ho to think in ter back after the holidays But then Brad caenda that turned her world upside down again It was afternoon and Brie had been thinking about what to prepare for dinner when she heard her father go to the door It always gave her a little treht, afraid of who it would be standing there, and that Sah the peephole

Sam came into the kitchen and said, somberly, "It’s Brad"

She dried her hands on a dish towel "Here?"

Sao to my office"