"He reached out, ran his finger down the fine, ultra-smooth flesh of her cheek and knew he had never touched anything so soft. The memory of her pretty pink lips forming those words had his lips quirking. He leaned close, feathered her hair from her ear and whispered, "Never dare me." She jackknifed in the bed. Her eyes flew open, and a scream of pure terror erupted from her lips with such a suddenness that he couldn't counter it. He cursed, jumped for the window, grabbed the rope he'd secured beside it, and in the time it took for her screams to die he was on the ground and running. Damn. Guess he shouldn't have warned her, he thought with a smile. But he had. And he hoped, for her sake, she remembered it."