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her.
    "Paige." Casey stood and walked over to where she was. His hand
    rose up to her face, his fingers slid gently across her cheek, his eyes
    looked haunted. "I can't stop thinking about you. I know you are
    married and I know I should feel bad about that, but I don't. He
    should respect you and he doesn't."
    How in the world would he know that! Paige stared at him,
    wondering if she had gotten herself into something she wouldn't easily
    get out of.
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    "I want to be with you." He continued staring at her, but he made
    no move to touch her any further than the caress on her cheek.
    "But that's impossible Casey. I can't do this. I love my husband."
    "You love your husband because it's the right thing to do. But how
    long has it been since he has told you he loved you and really meant
    it? How long has it been since he loved you the way I did last night?
    If ever?"
    Closing her eyes she didn't know what she was going to do. Dalton
    had never made her feel the way Casey had. But that had been about
    sex. She and Dalton had twenty years together and couldn't throw that
    all away for one night of great sex.
    "I…" She didn't know what to say, His lips descended and grazed
    hers and she melted against him. Her brain screamed at her to stop,
    but her body said the exact opposite. The kiss deepened and he pulled
    her to him. Their tongues battled for a moment before she pulled
    away and buried her head in his chest.
    "I know you are going to think I'm crazy, but Paige, I think I'm
    already in love with you." He pulled her close, his voice barely above
    a whisper.
    With her head resting against her chest, she could hear his heart
    beat strongly in her ear. Her throat was tight with emotions. His
    words rang in her ears and she pulled back, staring at him,
    dumbfounded.
    He stared down at her with a look of sincere honesty. "I have never
    fallen for anyone. When I saw you last night, I asked Rosa who you
    were and she told me you were married. But I couldn't stop myself.
    Paige, you can't go back to him."
    This was way too strange. Men didn't declare their love for her, not
    men like Casey, and especially not after just one night of being
    together.
    "Casey, I, uh, don't know what to say." Her arms locked around his
    waist, her lower body still pressed against his, but her upper body
    leaned back against the arms holding her around her back. She stared
    up into his bright blue eyes.
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    "I'm not a stalker. You don't have to be afraid of me." He laughed
    lightly. "If you tell me you don't want to see me, I'll go away. If you
    can honestly tell me you don't feel the connection between us, I will
    never bother you again."
    Paige pulled out of his arms and ran her fingers through her hair,
    not worried if she messed it up or not. What worried her was the fact
    that she did feel a connection with him and she really didn't want him
    to just go away. But, those feelings shouldn't be there, not so fast!
    "Casey, I don't normally do things like this." She paced. "My life is
    on a schedule. I do the same thing every day, like clockwork. I don't
    deal with change." She shook her head and kept walking, staring at
    the floor. She stopped, looked at him, waving her hand in the air.
    "All this, is throwing me completely off balance and I don't know
    what I am supposed to do."
    "Sometimes, what you need is change in your life, Babe."
    His facial muscles relaxed a bit when she didn't immediately tell
    him to leave, but she could see the tension in his him. She wanted to
    go to him and hug him to her, to tell him to relax and again, that was
    completely against her nature. She didn't generally hug people very
    often, only loved ones and close friends. With him, she wanted to
    touch him, hug him, just be close to him and it didn't make sense.
    "This is so out there for me. I don't know what it is about you." She
    turned her back on him, staring out the window when she continued.
    "I can't tell you to leave. Honestly, I don't know why, but I can't.