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Riley snorted “Like I didn’t know you were going to say that”

Ignoring her teasing, Cooper hurried out of the bar, hoping to catch up with the doc before she made it to the inn One, he didn’t like the idea of her walking back there alone so late at night, and two, he’d been hoping to get some alone time with her He wanted to take her out on an actual date and he wanted her to know that he wasn’t just looking to fuck around, as if she was just another hot tourist passing through his town

He could be a gentleman and he wanted to show her that

Just as he was about to hurry up the boards, he felt that tingle down the back of his neck again and soaze out toward the beach

And that hen he saw her

Sand kicked up under Jessica’s feet, her hair bloildly behind her as her shoes and purse dangled froht, but it didn’t look like Jessica was feeling it by the way she spun around, laughing at the way the dying waves rushed around her ankles at the shoreline

That tingle shot down his spine

His blood turned hot

And suddenly Cooper wasn’t feeling very gentlemanly toward the sexy doctor

Jessica

The water was cold, but it felt great againstbetine and water afterIsland iced teas, so I wasn’t drunk However,across the bar froht, and the chilly sea breeze was just what I needed

I stumbled out of a tipsy spin only to stop on the shore to stare up at the sky My feet sank into the wet sand, the squishy grain of it war even, and that, mixed with the sound of the soft surf and the infinite darkness of the sea and sky, was soothing

The stars were brighter here than in the city They weren’t obscured by all the city lights

They were beautiful

Goose buh escaped me

Maybe Bailey was right Maybe there was ic here

“Doc?”

For a ined the voice in the dark, attributing the phantoood-bye to Cooper

I was ood

The feelings he incited in er with his bar, wellit was just a complication I didn’t need

A hand touchedaround in alarm

Relief and that damn awareness washed over me as I stared up into Cooper’s face

“Coop—” His naasp because suddenly I was in his arms and my mouth was crushed beneath his

Confusion was quickly replaced by lust as the kiss instantly turned wild He had one arh my hair to hold my head, to hold me to his lips

Everything about the way he heldme escape him

And for a few th, ry, hard, wet kisses, I didn’t want to escape him

I clung to hiloried in the feel of his tongue stroking ainst ers in my hair—

My cell phone abruptly burst into song and its unwanted shrillness jerked me back into reality

I pulled out of Cooper’s hold and he reluctantly let o

He stared at me with narrowed eyes, his lips deliciously swollen from our kisses

My own lips tingled as I stared back at him, openmouthed and shocked

“Doc,” he began, but I ducked ot it, it had stopped ringing

I wasn’t surprised to see a missed call from Andrew He was the only one I kneould think to call me this late

Guilt suffusedanyone else Nohe was!

I glared up at Cooper “What the hell was that?”

He raised an eyebrow at ”

“It came out of nowhere!”

“I think you and I both know it didn’t come out of nowhere” He took a step towardyou fro this heat between us?”

“I’ood could possibly come of this Andand”

He took another step toward me, so close his chest almost brushed my body

My knees wobbled at his nearness I couldn’t reave uy ever had

I looked up at Cooper, incredulous How could one man incite so much sexual need in me?

“And?” he said, curling ainst hten

It’s the sea breeze! I lied to myself

“I’ someone”

“Sort of seeing someone?”

For so “Andrew and I aren’t in a relationship because neither of us wants that, but we have agreed that while we’re doing e’re doing, on’t be doing that with anyone else”

He crossed his arms over his chest and I could see the a what exactly?”

I gave a huff of laughter “You knohat” snorted “Like I didn’t know you were going to say that”