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But he’d never been very good at asking Not that she wasthe door shut with her foot "Co his arlided up his chest to cup his face "Not "

Well, hell He tried to pull back, but she gripped hio--"

"Honey, this is your place" Her fingers slid into his hair, gentle and soothing Tender So were her eyes when she tilted his face down to hers to see it in the di anywhere," she said "You’re already right where you need to be" Then she locked the door and gave hi onto his bed

Shit, he was pretty fking far gone if she could catch hiuard like that He came up on his elbows, and there she stood in that shi sweet and war He didn’t want that He wanted her nad and sweaty and screa his name "I want to be alone," he said

"You don’t need to be alone tonight"

"You don’t knohat I need"

She stared down at the hard-on he was sporting, the one straining the front of his scrubs "I think I have a pretty good idea" She let the straps of her ca fell to her waist She urged it past her hps with a little wriggle, and it hit the floor "You sure you don’t want to talk about it?"

Sitting up, he settled his hands on her rib cage, fingers spread wide

"It ht help if you did," she said

He took in her pretty pink bra It was one of those half-cup things that gave hi peek-a-boo hints of nipples, which were already hard They puckered up even tighter, and his mouth watered

"Josh?"

"Sorry I haven’t heard a word since you took off your top" He closed his eyes "You shouldn’t be here"

"Give ic skills in that moment None He searched for words "I’m temporarily unavailable"

"Incapacitated, maybe" With a hand to the center of his chest, she pushed

He fell flat to the bed and stared up at the ceiling, which irling And there was so else He badly wanted to roll her beneath him and take her Take her hard and fast and dirty "You need to go, Grace"

"Yeah? And why’s that?" she asked "You ht actually let your control slip? Or worse yet, an e her lips "You’ve seen er…You’ve seen me totally out ofSo I think I can handle whatever you’ve got, big guy"

He blinked "Big guy?"

She crawled onto the bed and then over hi to hs And then higher as her fingers deftly untied and tugged enough to free hientle" She smiled at him "Remind me sometime to show you my sexual fantasy list It’s quite co not gentle"

He groaned

"We play doctor And in a variation, I get to be the doctor"

Jesus "Grace--"

"Shhh," she led sos At the feel of her bare legs entangled with his, he groaned again

"I have your attention?" she asked

"You always haveas her words were, she ether, and it occurred to him that she was as turned on as he was He felt hiht "Grace--"

"No" She covered his er "You just sit there and look pretty"

His low laugh turned into a husky groan when she grasped him with her hands and let her lips slowly descend over him

"Oh, Christ" He had to close his eyes after that, his hands fisted tightly in the bedding instead of in her hair, because she was right--he wasn’t at all sure he could control hi in pleasure and hot, desperate need "Grace--" he gasped, trying to warn her

She rip, hu with his favorite body part

He caured he should be mortified--tomorrow For now, all he could muster was a blissed-out exhaustion…

When he woke several hours later to the alar him to wonder--real or Memorex?

The next day came too early, and Grace cursed her alarle on his bed, eyes rolled back in his head She’d been pretty sure he’d still been breathing

He one

She drove into Seattle for an interview at a second firm that had called late yesterday, and it ell On her way back to Lucky Harbor, she got a phone call from Anna

"Toby’s school called He fell into a e of clothes"

"Okay," Grace said "I’ll be there in twenty" When she got to the house, she went through Toby’s dresser and pulled out a pair of pants

"Don’t forget socks," Anna said frorabbed those too

"And shoes And a shirt And a coat…"

Grace looked at Anna

"Apparently, he’s quite the e of clothes to the eleht Toby was a mess, but a happy one

"I didn’t need new clothes," he said, not quite so happy now that he had to change Apparently little boys like to wear their ave his hair a tousle Or tried Her fingers caught on the rinned, and she shook her head "See you at the bus stop in a little while, handsome"

She left the school and met Amy and Mallory for a late lunch at Eat Me Lunch was chocolate cupcakes, of course

"So sad about Mrs Porter," Mallory said "We’re all taking it hard at the hospital Especially Josh" Her eyes cut to Grace "You hear fro on his bed She shook her head and peeled her cupcake froht need some TLC," Mallory said