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"Yeah?"

"Take care of yourself"

"Always"

"Oh, and give that scientist a kiss for me"

Not a chance in hell

"You should know by now, Wolfe, I don’t share," he growled

Chapter Six

Angela was impressed

So this hat a kitchen was supposed to look like, she wryly acknowledged

It was ranite countertops, and stainless steel appliances It was the heavy oak dining table in the center of the cera china cabinet that displayed the prized dishware

This was a place where fah away the troubles of the day

It wasn’t a makeshift lab for a distracted scientist Or a place for a child to sit alone with dinner fro with her fellow drunks at the nearest bar

She squashed the ridiculous pang She wasn’t that lonely ten-year-old girl anymore and she was perfectly happy with her private apart a water bottle fro between a salad and a tuna sandhen a husky voice whispered in her ear

"Did you find anything to telare at thea hand to her racing heart "You really need to wear a bell"

He flashed his rare, bone-rin "Kinky, but whatever turns you on"

She sed a groan as desire blazed through her with stunning force

Even furious with his betrayal and unnerved by the disruption of her peaceful life, she still wanted hiainst her will her gaze drank in the lean, starkly beautiful face and stunning blue eyes that studied her with an unwavering intensity His hair was even ers itched to smooth the dark strands that shiht

Then they could travel down to discover if his body was the chiseled perfection she’d always fantasized

Abruptly realizing his eyes had darkened, as if he could actually sense her disturbing awareness, she shut the fridge door Instantly she stepped back as his heat wrapped around her

"How long did you have to practice sneaking up on people?" she breathed, shivering at the prickles that raced over her skin

"It’s a natural talent" He closed the tiny space between the to pluck the water bottle from her hand and tossed it into the recycle bin "One of many"

She licked her dry lips "Is modesty another natural talent?"

"No, but this is"

He leaned down to capture her lips in a kiss of sheer possession

"Niko," she s as he wrapped his arive her ample opportunity to step away

Or perhaps he orried his superior poould frighten her, she realized as he gently tugged her against hiaze

"Tell me no and this ends now," he husked

Her lips parted, but the as stuck in her throat "I thought you wanted dinner?" she instead hedged

His hand shifted to her lower back, pressing her against the thickening length of his arousal

"You knohat I want"

She shivered, her hands lifting to rest against his chest "Do I?"

His tongue traced the curve of her lower lip "I can demonstrate if you need clarification"

Oh, she wanted him to demonstrate

She wanted hilorious storer that would drown out the voice of insecurity that whispered in the back of her mind

"It seems--"