Page 66 of Capture The Moment

Chapter 16

“Dinner tonight?”

“Um…”

“It’s just dinner, Harper. It doesn’t have to mean sex. However, if you ask me nicely…”

“Shut up!”

Finn’s deep chuckle rumbled through the phone and did funny things to her insides. “Is that a yes?”

“Well, I have to eat, so I guess so.”

“Do you want to go out or eat in?”

A few weeks ago, that would have been an innocent question, but now it was brimming with possibilities.

“In is fine.” Maybe it would seem less like a date that way.

“Your place or mine?”

Ok, that time, she wasn’t imagining things. His silky voice had just deepened, and her core clenched. “Mine, I guess.” It didn’t matter where they were. Based on how she was feeling, she was guaranteed to end up in his arms.

“What should I bring?”

Your killer body and wicked tongue for starters. “I’m up for anything.” Oops! Huge mistake.

Finn laughed so loud that she pulled the phone away from her ear and Daisy cocked her head.

“I meant FOOD!”

“I know what you meant. It just sounded…you know…sexy.”

Me? Sexy?

And then, without missing a beat, he said, “I know what you like to eat, so how about if I surprise you?”

“Ok,” she said, suddenly eager to end the call.

“Great. I’ll see you around six o’clock.”

After they hung up, Harper thumped her head on her desk a few times as if to knock some sense into herself. She’d been daydreaming about Finn ever since she’d woken up, and it was driving her crazy! She’d gotten so turned on in the shower that she’d had to turn the water temperature down, and it was only February! She’d even dressed lighter than usual because she felt overly warm, and her skin prickled wherever the fabric touched it.

Images of Finn naked pinged around in her head, and when those weren’t satisfying enough, she picked up her camera and turned it on. There he was, sprawled out on the bed, the blanket draped over his lower half (darn it!), looking sexy and adorably rumpled in his after-sex slumber.

“Not helping, Harper,” she said, scolding herself, and then she shut off the camera and pushed it aside. Funny how, last night, she’d experienced some flashes of guilt, but this morning, all she could think about was when she was going to see him again. She’d gone about her normal morning routine, but she’d kept staring at the phone as if willing it to ring. And when his name had flashed on the screen, she’d forced herself not to answer on the first ring.

It was hard to believe that she was having this strong of a reaction to a man she’d known for years. But there was no denying the zing that she felt every time she thought of him and of what they’d done the night before. She kept telling herself that it was just because it had been so long since she’d been with a man, but she knew deep down that there was more to it than that.

Finn had already been an important part of her life for some time, only now they’d added a new element to their relationship. An element that she was anxious to explore further.

She was sitting at her desk under the guise that she was working when Julia called.

“I just got off the phone with Connor,” Julia said, not bothering with a hello.

“And?”

“And he said that Finn appears to be in an exceptionally good mood today. Would you happen to know anything about that?”