Page 73 of Tamed By Her Touch

“I touched you without intending to.”

“You’ve touched me before,” she pointed out.

“Not like this.”

The words came out low and rough and hungry and Clair's heart began beating faster.

She shifted onto her back, putting a few inches of space between them. That helped…slightly. But Kaelus was still right beside her. He was still shirtless and still enormous. And still looking considerably better than any male who had irritated her as much as he had should be allowed to look.

“Look,” Clair said, keeping her voice light. “We can share a bed without making this weird. We’re both adults.”

He nodded reluctantly.

“I suppose so.”

“We work together every day,” she pointed out.

Kaelus nodded again.

“Yes.”

“We’re friends,” Clair went on.

Kaelus hesitated.

She frowned.

“You could at least pretend to agree with that one.”

“I was considering the terminology.”

“Oh, for heaven’s sake!” she exclaimed.

“You are my friend,” he said at last. “Though I suppose I had not thought of you in those terms before.”

Clair smiled.

“See? That wasn’t so hard.”

Kaelus gave her a long look.

“You have no idea.”

Something about the way he said it sent another little shiver through her, but Clair decided to ignore it.

“The point is, is should be no big…no big…”

But as she spoke, her eyes happened to travel down from his chest to the area of his groin and what she saw there made her brain glitch. The golden metallic comforter they were under was sporting a tent big enough to camp in! Clearly her lab partner/fake husband was in desperate need.

God, did I do that to him? Clair wondered. Was the big Hybrid really that turned on just from seeing her in her nightgown and having her pressed against him for a few minutes? This was going to be a problem, she thought. Unless she did something about it. But what could she do?

“You were saying?” Kaelus growled, interrupting her thoughts.

“Oh!” Clair realized she’d been staring at his crotch saying nothing. Quickly, she looked away. “I think I was saying that it should be no big deal for us to share a bed.” She took a deep breath. “But now I see that I was wrong.”

He frowned.

“I understand. I’ll sleep on the floor as I offered to before.”