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That sixty-foot elling to eighty feet Why was he on this crazy ride with her? His gut wasn’t screareat What if this wasn’t just about getting her into bed? What if he wantedemotional annihilation if he couldn’t master this ride, but he still didn’t pull the offer, didn’t back away

He couldn’t

He forced the words out “It’s just money, Piper”

It could only be aboutelse—like his future or his heart—to be at stake

Piper rested her forehead on his biceps, and he looked down at her bright hair He wanted her, and his raging desire had nothing to do with gemstones or money or houses in Brooklyn

He just flat-out wanted her under hi He had since she’d walked into his life a little less than a week ago

Jaeger dropped his arm, turned to face her and waited for her to meet his eyes She would; he knew she would She couldn’t resist temptation any more than he could That he wasn’t alone in this ely, a little less like he was surfing that wave

“Don’t take this the wrong way,” he said, his voice gruff, “but I want you”

Piper lifted her hand to touch his chest, and he felt her warh the thin layer of his cotton T-shirt “Don’t take this the wrong way, but I want you back”

He knew that He was old enough to recognizethe tango Sex was just sex, a good way to blow off steam They weren’t kids, and he was sure Piper wouldn’t think this could be the start of so that went deeper thanidea Hell, he didn’t want either of the this was more than it could be

“Sex is all that’s on the table, Piper” Jaeger jammed his hands in the pockets of his jeans so he didn’t reach for that big button that held her wraparound skirt together

“I never thought anything else was on offer,” Piper replied, her eyes steady on his “Apart frole h to deal ithout the complication of a relationship I’d like to be with you, for an hour or two, so I can step out of my crazy life

“I want to do nothing but touch you and have you touchto give me I need to escape and I think I could, with you A lover is what I need tonight” Piper looked at her watch and grimaced “Well, for the next hour or so”

Jaeger felt the air leave his body, and he lifted his hands so he could fraripped his wrists, looking up at hi eyes He couldn’t wait to touch her, to kiss her, but first things first

He moved his hand to the back of her head and found the pins restraining her curls He pulled the her hair to fall over his hands and wrists “That’s better Now let’s get rid of the skirt and shirt”

Piper started to reer captured her hand and pulled it back to her side “Nope, the boots and glasses stay on”

This hat she needed, Piper thought as Jaeger pulled her turtleneck over her head, being careful not to dislodge her glasses, and dropped the garment to the couch

Jaeger ran his finger over the edges of her pale green lacy bra, froain It felt like he was running a gentle firecracker over her skin Every cell in her body woke up and did a hello-there-darling stretch

Yeah, Jaeger touching her was exactly what she needed, what she wanted For eighteen ht of little , happy She hadn’t had a date, or sex, in far too long, and she’d forgotten how a it felt to be the object of a man’s attention—a very sexy man’s attention

It was a fantastically bad idea That was indubitable But she wanted hi for it