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disappear completely when John was around her. She touched her mouth with her fingers still tasting him against her lips.  It took her a few minutes to come to her senses as she hurried in the shower trying to cool down.
    “He wants to play well let’s play,” she thought.
    She put on a dark blue dress that hugged her body and revealed her curves.
    “This will get him.” She thought.
    Hurrying downstairs she stepped through some large double French doors and found them sitting at the kitchen table. She cast a glance at John but she said nothing.
    John stood up as she approached him and pulled her chair out. His mouth watering, his eyes piercing her inner soul. Katie looked over at her father and he was smiling from ear to ear. He looked so happy. She hadn’t seen him this way since her mother was alive. She noticed Jewels was not having breakfast with them.
    “Where’s Jewels?” Katie asks.
    “She had some calls to make she won't be joining us this morning.”
    “Thank God,” she thought. She couldn’t handle her and John at the same time.
    The butler came around and poured her a cup of coffee and sat her breakfast down in front of her.
    John watches her put a piece of pancake in her mouth, as she licks her lip getting a drop of syrup off her eyes was on him with a half grin. She was doing this on purpose.
    “Such a dirty trick, let the games begin” he thought.
    A slight grin came across his face as a trace of her sweet perfume invades his senses.
    “Oh Katie you are playing a dangerously” he thought.
    She was so involved in the attempt to arouse him he could barely here dad talking. He turned his head around to face him.
    “I was just talking to John, how do feel like a flight to the Florida Keys for the weekend.” Daniel said as John turned his head back around to face him.
    “Florida, dad I have to work.”
    “Oh darling you don’t have to and you can take off this weekend.”
    “But John has to get back.”
    “Dear I have already talked to John and he is fine with it.”
    “Oh!”
    “Yes Katie, it sounds like fun. You need to spend some time with your dad. You work really too hard. Besides, no one has to go back to work till Monday are Tuesday.” John said as he was caressing her back with his hand. He could feel the tension increase around her lower back. He knew he was getting to her.
    Katie was furious but she couldn’t show it. She was in no condition to stay another night with John. She didn’t know if she control being anywhere close to him. Her body was craving him as her mind was fighting him off.
    “Well, what do you say, dear, make you daddy happy. Spend some time with me. You will enjoy yourself.” Daniel smiled looking straight at her.
    Katie paused for a moment and looked over at John. He had a mischievous smile on his face as his eyes stared straight through her. She knew he was up to something. Her body was taking control away from her mind and there was nothing she could do about it. She felt his hand slid slowly down her back caressing her slowly as chills ran down her. She knew all he had to do is touch her and it sent her into another world. The world she had forgotten, the world she needed and missed but was afraid of.
    “Daniel she would love to isn’t that right Katie,” John answered before she had a chance to.
    “Is that right Katie you would love to” Daniel ask.
    “I dare him to answer for me now I have to commit to it. I will handle him later. This is war? “She thought.
    “Yes daddy that is fine,” she said as she made herself smile at him.
    With her foot under the table she kicked John in the chin. He jumped as his hand tighten around her waist. Pulling her towards him almost making her spill her coffee. She narrowed her eyes at him.
    “Wonderful we will leave and an hour” Daniel answered.
    “An hour, I don’t have anything packed, plus my clothes are at home.”
    “Oh, Katie I had you some of your old clothes here so I had them packed just in