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“Come on, hot shot,” she called through the glass. “Let’s go.”
He turned off the engine, popped open the door. “Hey.”
Early evening sunshine clung to the edges of her blond hair, to her brows that dragged together into a frown, to the clipboard in her arms that was…sparkling.
“Um…” He pointed at her name, emblazoned in sequins. “Care to explain?”
“Explain what?” She glanced down. “Oh.” A roll of her eyes. “The guys decided I needed sparkles.”
He grinned. “Because of your sparkling personality?”
“Damn right.” Her chin came up, lips twitching. But then she sobered, head tilting to the side. “You good?”
No.
He was a fucking mess.
Work was fucked. His head wasmorefucked. He was reconsidering everything from his personality to how he interacted with his family to what he wanted in the future.
But he didn’t want to think about that right then.
He just wanted to be in this moment, wanted to enjoy hanging out with Teresa, even if it was for dastardly deeds.
Hell, who was he kidding?
He was looking forward to being dastardly, to doing the deeds, to hatching whatever plan it was that Teresa had come up with to torture his best friend.
Friends tortured friends?
Well, sometimes.
And that thought had him relaxing enough to close his door, to lock up, to turn to Teresa. “Dastardly deed time?”
“Jer,” she said. “You good?”
“No,” he admitted. “But I want to forget about that for a while.”
She studied him closely, eyes piercing him. Then she nodded. “I can make that happen.”
He reached out, tugged lightly on a strand of hair that had escaped her ponytail. “I know you can.”
Lips parting, eyes warming.
Their bodies were close.
He could feel the warmth of her, smell her shampoo, see the flecks of gold in her irises.
But she didn’t back up, and he felt the heat of her breath on his skin.
Close. So fucking close.
God, he wanted her.
Wanted to spin them, to press her back against the side of his car, to kiss her—no,to fuck her with his mouth, to fuck her with his cock.
Her nostrils flared.
The gold in those irises expanded.
