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“All I’m doing is asking a question, Nova.”
No, all he’s doing is confusing me. My gaze drops to his hands, big and broad. Manly. Veins slide up his arms before disappearing beneath the short sleeves of his T-shirt. I draw a line up to his eyes, fringed by thick lashes, dark as the night sky on a new moon. They highlight the sharp angles of his face, his square jaw.
Below that, the stubble on his jaw line and the strong muscles of his throat promise their own kind of delicious pleasure.
I can’t stop looking at him.
Transfixed.
Held captive.
I’m helpless as his dark brown eyes probe mine again.
Snap out of it, Nova.
“I’m not going to give you any more information about Jax.” I fire the words off my tongue, hoping to hide how my pulse is leaping. “You are not obligated to know about my dating life.This,” I point between us, “is still an employer-employee relationship.”
“Oh, definitely,” he says.
I scrunch my nose at him. “Are you mocking me?”
“No, Nova. I just know that every time I get even a centimeter closer to you, you explode like a pufferfish and throw these little prickles at me.”
“Are you calling me a pufferfish?”
“But here’s the thing,” the easy grin slides off Adam’s face, replaced by something painfully swoon-worthy and sincere.
Oh crap.The effusive, playful Adam I can handle. The flirty, back-me-into-walls Adam is tricky yet manageable. But the tender, heart-throb version is seriously dangerous to my well-being.
Adam drags me closer until I bump into his chest. He draws one hand over my face, brushing my cheek. A soft, feathery caress that makes my breath hitch.
“I will never stop looking out for you,” he promises in a deep, dark voice. “Whether you’re in Vision Tech or in another company or on Mars. I will nevernotbe there when you need me. I willneverstop bothering you about eating on time and I’ll never stop complaining about how much of a workaholic you are. And if there’s ever a jerk who intimidates you and makes it so you can’t even relax in your own home, I will always be there to give you a place of refuge.”
Heat climbs up my skin, starting from my head and working its way down to my stomach. He’s pulling me in, reeling me like a fish thrashing on a hook. The more I fight, the further the hook sinks in.
Maybe I should have taken my chances with Jax.
Because standing here, with my boss being this gorgeous and caring, is a completely different kind of danger.
Adam’s deep brown eyes lock on mine.
My lungs start closing up. Desire makes my skin feel tight like I threw it in the wash and it shrank several sizes.
Adam runs his fingers up to my ear. “You ready to go to bed now or do you still want to stand here arguing with me?”
My heart explodes in my chest.
Is he asking me to go to bed with him?
Is that really happening?
I open my mouth, but only a croaked sound escapes.
Get it together, Nova!
Unfortunately, inside my brain is the equivalent of a disaster zone, complete with men running around in lab coats screaming about the end of the world.
My complicated feelings for Adam are oozing out of their restraints and with each soft touch of his thumb on my face, I feel like I’m about to combust and take the whole house down with me.
