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‘I see you’ve recovered your sense of humour…’
‘Apparently I have.’
Jake couldn’t believe he was having this conversation through a closed door. He glared at the offending wood panel as if his gaze had the power to burn a hole through it.
From the other side Caitlin remarked brightly, ‘By the way, thanks for giving up your bed to me. I hope you were comfortable too. Did you sleep all right?’
What a question!
He rubbed a hand round his beard-roughened jaw. Rocks on the desert floor couldn’t have been more uncomfortable. He’d tossed and turned so much that he felt every single day of his thirty-six years this morning. And little Miss Hole-in-her-Stocking wasn’t helping, with her cheery wide-awake tone that conveyed she’d slept like a baby…
‘No, I didn’t,’ he growled.
There was no response.
For a few moments Jake thought his guest had returned to the kitchen. Then, to his surprise, the door opened and she walked into the bedroom. Wearing tight faded jeans, and a loose-fitting white T-shirt with clearly no bra underneath it, Caitlin fixed him with a tentative gaze. A soft flush suffused her cheeks when the corners of his mouth crooked upwards in a smile.
‘Something wrong?’ he asked huskily.
‘You said that you didn’t sleep?’
The way she said it let him know she was concerned, guilty, or both. It was too good an opportunity to waste and Jake wasn’t a man who ever let a good opportunity sail by without grabbing onto it.
‘Yeah…I might just stay put for a while longer and catch up a little.’
Caitlin couldn’t take her eyes off Jake’s heavenly chest. He was all lean, rippling muscle, rock-hard stomach and tanned flesh. With his sexy tousled hair and sleepy-eyed expression, the man was as handsome and seductive as a mythical warrior. And what did she think she was doing, daring to come into his room and stare at him as if she’d come to pay homage to one of the gods?
It was perhaps inevitable that he should pat the space next to him in the luxurious bed and suggest, ‘Why don’t you come and join me?’
‘I slept well. I don’t need any more rest.’
‘Did I mention rest?’
Caitlin swallowed hard. ‘No, but…it doesn’t look like there’s a lot of room,’ she said nervously.
Suddenly she was so aroused that it was impossible to pretend indifference. Jake was one sexy, charismatic specimen and she was only human. Could she help it if her neglected libido was nearing boiling point and needing resolution? Heat was already seeping up her thighs, between her legs, making her moist, while the sensitive tips of her nipples tingled painfully against her shirt.
‘You underneath, me on top…how much room do we need?’ Jake parried seductively, his blue eyes drowsy with desire. ‘We can make it work.’
It was an outrageous suggestion and Caitlin didn’t dare take him up on it…did she?
Glancing up at the faint morning light filtering through the slats of the rolled-down blinds, she was suddenly consumed by an avalanche of doubt. And not just doubt at her ability to get herself out of trouble when the situation demanded it, but at putting her common sense versus a desire so red-hot it was already burning her.
The sheer, unmitigated sensual tug of Jake sitting up in bed, with his chest bared and his eyes goading her towards something so deliciously sinful that it made her weak just thinking about it, was in the end too hard to resist.
With her heart thudding, she replied, ‘I’ve never…I’ve never gone in for casual sex. I just wanted you to know that. Do you have some protection?’
He stared. ‘I’ve got everything we need right here.’
Jake had known he’d finally lost his battle against temptation as soon as Caitlin had walked into the room. The longing to hold her in his arms and to know her intimately had finally overridden all sense of right and wrong.
He wasn’t aiming to hurt either her or the band. He had too much respect for all of them for that. He was merely following an irresistible impulse that wouldn’t be denied. That said, there would be nothing casual about sex between him and Caitlin. Even though she was gorgeous—the ultimate male fantasy come to life—Jake admired her for the courageous woman she was.
