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"It wasn't worth hurting her like that over some fling."

Some fling. The words landed like a blow. She pressed a hand to her stomach as if applying pressure could relieve pain. Ridiculous. The agonizing throb she felt wasn't in her abdomen. It was in her heart. "That's all this was - a fling?"

"You're leaving next week, Sierra. What else could it be?" He said it so matter-of-factly that she wanted to cry.

Vicki asks Sierra if she's sleeping with Garrett, and when Sierra admits it, Vicki freaks the fuck out.

He'd once launched into a discussion of grass at dinner that had lasted a full half hour. Sierra had managed not to fall asleep, but only because she'd entertained herself by mentally replaying her favorite episode of an old sitcom.

Number One: If any man (or woman) fucks you or wants to fuck you, but tells you it will be a secret, tell them NO. Never agree to be anyone's secret lover. Tell them to fuck off.

Number Two: "Well, coffee is the most important meal of the day." Truth.

Pushes her away because he's fucked up about his past, and now has extreme guilt about sex.

He asks her to keep it a secret.

As he'd noted this afternoon, she had no real poker face. Being deceptive did not come easily to her. If she couldn't keep Will Trent and Kate from seeing her attraction to Jarrett, how long would she be able to hid it from someone who was living with them?
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Actually, she preferred not to dwell on the fact that she was sleeping with the guy who signed her paychecks. In that

"Make love to me, cowboy."

"Yes, ma'am."

He headed up the stairs, struck by the novelty of how rare it was to be with a woman under his own roof. There'd been a few furtive encounters at the ranch over the years, but a lot of his love life had taken place in motel rooms and the bench seat of trucks. When was the last time he'd woken up next to a woman he'd fallen asleep beside and started the day with her? He's seen quite a few lovers naked, but he was

Small make-out session

Kissing