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I still wasn’t quite steady yet. Not even close.
“Not exactly. I crashed into a vintage Pez display and ripped open my shirt.” His smile was wry. “Superhero moment dashed.”
“I don’t think so. Just wish that rip had been a little lower.” I let my gaze drop and linger until he did that whole two fingers under my chin deal he’d started doing tonight. He lifted my face and leveled his gaze on mine, making me swallow hard.
“While I want you to promise you’ll never do anything close to this again, I’m honored.”
“You’re honored?”
He nodded. “No one worries about me, even if it was unnecessary. But a beautiful woman like you racing over here to make sure I’m okay? That’s a fucking win, far as I’m concerned.”
“It is?” And I’d turned into a parrot. Awesome.
“Absolutely.”
“What about the bet?”
“What about it?”
“You hate me so much, you want me to move away. Now you think I’m beautiful?”
“You could still be beautiful even if I hated you. Which I do not. What’s between us is much more elemental.” He raked his fingers through the longer dark hair falling over his forehead. “You never would’ve moved if I’d won that stupid bet, and we both know it.”
I shrugged. “Yeah, probably not. But you wouldn’t win. Besides, you just dared me that I couldn’t withstand your magic sex fingers so you could get naked with me without acknowledging how much you want to.”
“Is that what you think?”
I crossed my arms smugly. “Not a no.”
“I also didn’t say anything about making you come with my fingers.” His voice had gone seductively low. “My tongue was just as viable.”
My heartbeat filled my head. Breathing was now optional.
He exhaled. “But it was a ridiculously dumb idea. As of now, that bet is cancelled.”
“Scared you’ll lose? I understand. Hard on the ol’ ego.”
“Hardly. Just it was a childish idea in the first place.” He stepped closer and my heart rate sped up even faster. “Neither of us are children. We don’t need to play silly games.”
“No. So you’re not running away from my overwhelming wiles now?”
He licked the inside of his lower lip as his sexy gaze roved over my face. “You see me running, Pocket Plus?”
I was breathing fast enough that my rapid exhalations were practically pressing my breasts against his uniform shirt. Pity they were so much less noteworthy than his EMT’s. “We can’t get naked. It’s against family rules.”
Again with the lip twitching. I wasn’t sure I was thrilled with his amusement at my expense. I kinda wished he’d go back to threatening to manhandle me—or at least that was what I’d imagined in my perverted brain.
“You keep mentioning sex. Is there any particular reason?”
“Same reason you’re hard enough to brand me.” I tilted up my chin, pleased when he kept his fingers against my face. “So, are we going to finish this or not? I’m not much for this two-step we’re doing. The one we’ve been doing for a damn long time.”
Lazily, he lifted an eyebrow. “Is that so?”
“You know it is. All the way back to when you were icing my sister’s cupcakes until late in the night.”
“Only you can make that sound salacious.”
“It is a gift, I admit it.”
