Page 59 of Playing With Temptation

Okay, so maybe last week I was wrong.

It would seem you could be friends with someone you knew biblically.

As long as I kept my heart in check and didn’t jump the gun before I knew exactly what Jase wanted. He’d semi-sorta kissed me. It was more of a brush of the lips, but he did put his mouth on mine after warning me he was going to kiss me.

Then there were some flirty-ish type texts.

There was some innuendo mixed in there.

But I had no idea what that meant.

For a thirty-five-year-old woman, I was dating-inept.

Totally clueless.

Inexperienced.

Maybe Jase just wanted a booty call.

Gah. Were hookups even called that anymore?

Friends with benefits?

A quick screw for old times sake?

I felt his hand on my back before I felt his mouth next to my ear.

“Baby, you’re overthinking.”

He was right, I was.

I relaxed my shoulders.

“One step at a time, Rae.”

I’d heard those words before. Lots of times. So many times, that any time I got stressed and my mind went into hyperdrive I’d pull them up and hear Jase.

One step at a time.

I could totally do that.

With Jase, I could do anything.

And I knew that as fact, since I’d done it before.

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

“Don’t start,” I told Ethan when his eyes narrowed and his frown deepened. “It’s been ten days. Staples came out Friday. I’m good.”

He glanced down at my shoulder.

“That’s fine, too,” I told him.

He rolled his eyes as I pulled my chair out and sat across from him at my desk.

“Anderson’s gonna chew your ass out for being here,” Ethan returned.

I knew she was, but I had a plan for that. It centered around a lot of groveling. I couldn’t take sitting at home another day. Especially while there was a homicide to solve.