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“Oh, To her head back in surrender as he kissed her neck “Please don’t stop”

He hesitated, his hand stilling on the side of her breast, and the thread of passion cooled, shifting into aardness

She should have kept her mouth shut Heat rushed to her cheeks She should never have let herself get carried away Never said his naers pushed the straps of her blouse back up over her shoulders and she no longer felt his lips on her skin She closed her eyes, embarrassed by how quickly she’d lost control Shehis name like that Probably because she was

“I should go,” he said, taking a step back, his voice definitively cooler “I should never have done that I work for you”

It was a dumb excuse without an ounce of truth in it She wasn’t really his boss, after all Her common sense hadn’t intruded, but his clearly had

The alcohol-fueled fuzziness in her brain was long gone She couldn’t blah, was try to salvage a little of her pride

“I shouldn’t have, either,” shedesperately to school her features She’d never had uess the pinot was better than I thought”

“You’re a really attractive wo would be a mistake It wouldn’t be fair to you”

That was alood of a line as It’s not you, it’s ry Maybe because the dismissal came so easily to his lips “Why? Because you’re on the rebound?” She asked the question before she could help herself

The change in his face was so instant that it er “Who told you that?” he asked sharply, his black eyes glinting at her in the bright light of the hall

She hadn’t realized one siht have said so…”

“Jess should h his hair

If she’d had any doubts about Jess’s clai a broken heart, his reaction erased theood job “I think we’ve established that,” she said quietly

Despite the kiss and the fact that he’d started it, it was abundantly clear that he wasn’t really interested in her She certainly didn’t want to be soirl sort of hanger-on “Listen, about Saturday…” She sed past the lump of aardness in her throat “You can just drop me off here after we finish with the samples”

The fire in his eyes mellowed and he blew out a breath “Don’t be silly”