It didn't make sense. Slowly she raised her eyes to his. What was it about this man that called to her senses? she wondered with a hint of pante.
She had never felt this instant awareness around a man before. Her heart beat faster, and her skin felt sensitized as though the air were charged with electricity. She didn't understand it, but she knew it existed.
Without realizing it, she used his name for the first time. "Trace," she said abruptly, "you don't sus pect me of being Travis's accomplice?" Heat quivered through him at the sound of his
name on her lips. "No," he said.
"That's it? A flat no?"
"Yes."
"Why?" She didn't know why it was important but it was. "Because my father told you I wasn't involved?" "Senat Kerr insisted you had nothing to do with the theft." His gaze settled
