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"I think we’ve tested our restraint enough for one night"

She wanted to argue with him, wanted to wrap herself around hied for bare skin against bare skin and to forget the rules she’d laid down

But Mary sensed Jack wasn’t the kind of uessed hi on the brakes not because he didn’t want her, but because he respected her too rowing between theht, if treated with the proper care, becoer

As a reat deal of control over her body so she could hold difficult poses for hours on end, so cold It was that control she called upon now She forced herself to slip out of Jack’s arms and pick up his jacket from the radiator across the room

"Next tiave him his coat and walked him to the front door, "I’ll let you drink your coffee"

He was standing on her front step when he said, "Next ti to asp of surprise with that last kiss she’d begged for Before she had a chance to catch her reeling heart, he was gone

She didn’t kno long she stood at the front door, staring out at the people walking on the sidewalk below and watching the cars and taxis and buses ht traffic Jack Sullivan was everything she’d ever looked for in a man Smart Sexy And with a heart full of so much warmth it stunned her

And yet, she realized as she finally closed her front door with a soft click, instead of being calhtened than she’d ever been before

Frightened and utterly enthralled

Her heart still pounding hard, she headed for the phone "Gerry, it’s Mary You kno you were saying you were hoping to work together again? Is there any chance you ht be able to squeeze in a last-n?"

Chapter Seven

On Mondaytheir first print ad When he caught sight of her dark hair swinging over her shoulders and her long, toned legs that seeo on forever, for the very first tiure out how to remain rational In all honesty he couldn’t re

The speed hich his heart was racing made him feel as if he were on a racetrack in one of the stock cars he’d retooled over the years Race cars, he’d discovered back in high school, were the perfect antidote for the slow pace of invention and engineering developht hier, as well If you weren’t risking on the track, you had no business being out there

The risks he took on the racetrack seeerous than the ones he took in the garage working on his computers but, the truth was, it was the other way around Those risks were iven up ten years of his life for a risky dreah him, Jack finally understood that the stakes had never been this high

Not only was his dream on the line…but it see over the weekend Thinking, after all, hat he’d always done best He should have been thinking about the launch of the Pocket Planner He should have been hunkered down over shipping schedules with Larry He should have been going over distribution and sales outlets with Howie He should have been approving final ad ca that Jack should have been focusing on when they were in the final lap of a drea was a woman

He had always had to fit women and relationships into the few spare slots of time and attention he had available He’d never even co about "forever" or love He’d treated the women he’d taken out well, but work had always come first

But Mary was no ordinary woman

Of course, it was perfectly natural to look at a woman like her and want her But was it natural to only be able to think of her? To rear and spice on her lips as he’d kissed her? To keep feeling the silky softness of her skin as he’d stroked her cheek? To hear continued echoes of the sweet sound of pleasure she’d made when he’d taken their kiss deeper?

What’s more, when she’d told hiht of his own mother and howto help Mary gain back what she was so sure she’d lost

As if she could hear his ihts, Mary suddenly looked over her shoulder and saw him He saw her eyes flare and her skin flush hat he hoped was a desire that et the yearning in Mary’s eyes when she’d asked him for one more kiss Lord, all he’d wanted was to lift her into his arms and take her back to her bedroo But she’d been so earnest in the diner when she’d asked him to be patient, and he intended to respect that which was so clearly i one more kiss before he’d made himself leave