Chapter Sixty Three: — BLADE HAD PLANNED to drop Maria off at the grocery store, make sure she had all she needed, and then go looking for Dakota. He could still feel her skin on his fingers. After the way she’d kissed him this morning just after he’d stepped out of the shower, there was no way she would walk away from his offer for a short affair. He’d tasted passion, real passion. It had been a long time since a woman had affected him like Dakota did. She stirred up something inside of him, a deep longing he didn’t even know how to define. He smiled. If she was having trouble sleeping now, wait until tonight. She might as well give up sleep for the next dozen days or so. He planned to. She was worth it. He couldn’t stop making plans as he unloaded the crates of jams and jellies in ex

