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“Okay.” His hands remained on my waist while cradling my jaw. He leaned forward and quickly brushed my nose with his before he stepped away. “Good night, Josette.”
“Good night, Aidan.” He watched me get into my car and pull away before he got behind the wheel of a large, dark blue four-door truck.
What was it I said about Nat’s mythical kissing sparks?
I really hated it when I was wrong.
Chapter Five
I thought it was sweet the way Aidan called me about an hour after our date to remind me to set the alarm system and then walked me through how to do it. He really didn’t need to, because like he said when he sold the system to me, it was easy to use, but I played along anyway. It was nice to feel like someone was concerned about me. No, it was nice that Aidan was concerned about me. I knew it was a bad idea to get involved with him, but I couldn’t help myself. I still planned to sell the house because there was no way I was going to stay in Louisville any longer than I had to. The probability of me running into Derek was a lot higher here than it would be in California. I wanted to purge myself completely of all things Derek Vaughan, or at least that’s what I kept telling myself.
I’d talked to Aidan only twice more on the phone during the week, and our conversations weren’t very long, mostly he wanted to confirm the details fo
r our Friday date.
“Aidan, you know that all of this isn’t necessary,” I found myself saying. “I’d still go out with you anyway, even if it had nothing to do with the article.”
“Nah, this gives me an excuse to not have to be creative. I was never any good at it anyway.” I could picture his smiling face on the other end of the phone, and my insides did a flip.
“Okay, well, I’d better go. I’ve got potential buyers coming in the morning, so I’ve got to get up early in time to tidy the place up and get out of here.”
“Right,” he replied, and then there was a short silence. “Good night, Josette.”
“Good night, Aidan.” We both lingered on the phone, waiting for the other to hang up. Finally, I heard him chuckle softly, and then the call ended.
He also sent me a good night text every night after that, and I found myself looking forward to them.
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I’d only made it halfway through the week when I might have, accidentally on purpose, jiggled something in the security panel box to cause the alarm to go offline. I called Secure Point Systems immediately and requested that my original technician, Aidan Ross, return to fix the issue. I was told that he would be out to my house before five p.m. This meant that I had to endure the torturous wait that lasted hours.
Every time a car drove by I would run to the window to see if it was him. I constantly checked my hair and makeup as I aimed for a perfect cross between “oh, I had no idea you were stopping by” mixed with “damn right, this look was staged.”
I was sitting in my office with my headphones on, bobbing my head to the beat as I typed away at my article when I felt a hand on my shoulder.
“Ah!” I screamed and twisted around in my seat quickly. I let out a long sigh of relief to see Aidan’s green eyes staring down at me. “You scared me.”
“I knocked for a good five minutes before I discovered that the front door wasn’t bolted.” He crossed his arms and glared down at me, clearly not pleased with that discovery. “Josette, why was it unlocked?”
“Well, the alarm thingy is broken.” I removed my headphones and stood up. “That’s why I called?.?.?.?to?.?.?.?um?.?.?.?have it repaired.”
“Yeah, but the alarm doesn’t stop the dead bolt from working when turned manually,” he said through slightly clenched teeth.
“Oh.” I shrugged and looked down at my bare feet, which were sporting a new coat of Sassy Siren red polish. I could feel Aidan still staring at me so I returned my eyes to his. “What?” I asked as innocently as I could manage, while I tried to suppress feelings of foolishness over staging this fiasco.
Before I knew what was happening, Aidan had closed the distance between us and I was eye level with the company logo on his shirt. Having him suddenly in my personal space quickened my pulse, and my breath grew shallow. God, I really needed to find out why he smelled so good.
“Josette.” He said my name softly and I looked up slowly. My eyes traveled from his solid chest to his throat, where I watched in fascination as his Adam’s apple moved, up to the dark stubble of his jaw, then finally rested on his full lips that were curved slightly in a smile.
“Yes?” I replied, finally letting my eyes travel up to meet his.
“If you wanted to see me, all you had to do was say so.” I was instantly captivated by the way Aidan’s eyes darkened as he spoke, and I couldn’t form a response. He moved me backward with his body until I was against the wall, staring up at him. He braced himself against the wall by placing his hands on either side of my head as he leaned down, close enough to let his mouth hover over my ear.
“Did you want to see me, Josette?” I instantly nodded my head. “Good. You should always say what you want.” I felt him lower his head and skim the curve of my neck with his nose.
“Aidan.” I breathed his name as I let my head fall to the side.
“What do you want right now, Josette?” he whispered against my throat, right at the place where my pulse beat rapidly.
