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And yetand yet, she pined for him like a cat pined for a cardboard box

Because of that, she had done what any nor to hell he would leave her alone Cowardly, maybe But when all else failed, as a woman to do?

She finished off the cos the drink to the custoister A slow heat sizzled down her spine, no doubt Nash stripping the clothes right off her body with his gaze She huffed and grabbed the et her ate, then lost her breath completely when she hit a hard wall that was Nash’s chest

Against her better judg blue eyes And then carin “Miss ance

Her lips parted to unleash a sassy retort Da?” she asked instead

His low chuckle smacked a tsunami-sized wave of heat into her The scent of beer and man and pine brushed across her face when he dropped his chin and arched an eyebrow “I can think of a couple things you could help me with, Freckles”

She planted her hand against his rock-hard chest and pushed Da called personal space You should learn what that is”

He wasn’t looking at her Oh, hell no, he stared at her hand on his chest She quickly drew herself away, fully aware of the electricity between theain The heat flaring in his expression, matched with his low voice, ed him into her office

At that, his grin turned devilish “Not that long ago, you liked when I got this close”

Her breath hitched and goose bumps tickled over her flesh Her o again God, she vividly re across her skin How the playfulness in his gazeshe had ever seen Even now, she drew in his scent and he sood Like the fresh, open Colorado country air after being in the city “That o o,” she re about thatmistake”

“We weren’t a mistake,” he said smoothly

“Okay, lapse in judgment, then”

He chuckled so easily, like nothing ever got to him “Not that either, Freckles”

“Oh, yeah, then as it?”

No matter how many people watched this conversation, he said dead serious, “The best night of both our lives”