title: A Kiss Between Friends (Love Stories)
author:  Erin Haft 
description: tt can tell her best friend Miles Wilson anything...except that she's falling in love with him. Samantha knows that Miles would never think of her as girlfriend material. So she keeps her love for him a secret. It's a lot easier--and safer--that way.Everything changes when Miles tells Samantha that he's in love--with China Henry, the most beautiful (and unattainable) girl at Jefferson High. But Miles can't get a date with China unless Samantha helps him. Can Samantha put her true feelings aside and go along with his scheme? Or will she finally spill her heart to Miles, and risk losing him forever?
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  ## “You’ll get your money,” Emma said.
  
  “We’ll see.” Zarios smiled. “Till I do, you will be my fiancée. You will move
  into my home so that I can take care of you—or, rather, deal with the press
  and the questions….”
  
  “We won’t…” Emma flushed. “I mean, there’ll be no…”
  
  “I don’t understand what you are saying.” He flashed her an innocent smile.
  
  “Oh, I think you do. I want to make it clear, very clear, that we won’t be
  sharing a bed.”
  
  His mouth was mere inches from hers. Her mind was quailing, but her
  treacherous body flared in instant recall of their one dizzy time together.
  
  “Do you want me to kiss you?”
  
  Yes.
  
  She didn’t say it, but the word snapped like a twig between them.
  
  She wanted to forget, to escape…for just one moment. To forget this living
  hell and taste the heaven she had once witnessed, to accept the temporary
  relief his mouth would surely provide.
  
  To be held instead of holding up.
  
  He kissed her then, his mouth crushing hers. And she was kissing 