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Construction should be mostly complete by then, everyone should be home, and it would be the first large-scale event we put on since the fire.
It needed to beperfect.
Which meant…the work of the mayor was never done.
Something that Joel would give me shit about.
I froze, my grin fading.
Belly churning.
God, I always,alwayswanted him.
Which was annoying. Because, initially,he filled me with irritation. Something that was even moreirritatingthan the man himself had been. Because I was supposed to be untouchable.
Unable to be irritated.
But Joelalwaysgot under my skin.
Because the irritation and turned to wanting…and now after all that avoidance, it had become longing.
To be in his arms, to have his mouth on mine, his hands on my body, his cock thrusting inside as he gave me the rest of the fantasies I’d described to him.
More.
He’d give me more.
I knew he could get creative.
But right now, I wish he was less creative and less persistent and less…Joel.
Because he was leaning back against my little SUV, his arms crossed, his lips curved up into a smile that I wanted to wipe off his face. Either with my fist or some pithy, snarky comment…or with my lips, tasting that smile, tucking it close to my soul and—
Preferably my fist.
Lie.
I was desperate for it to be with my lips.
Except he was tall, so his lips would be hard to reach without his help, without the unconscious way he bent for me.
Ugh. Annoying man.
And yes, I was trying to turn my focus away from my pounding pulse, my pussy that had immediately gone wet when I’d seen him, smelled him.
I needed to stay sane, to keep my distance.
Joel didn’t give me that.
He stepped closer, the annoying,sexyhockey player making it impossible for me to retreat. “Whatcha doing, harpy?”
I flinched.
I didn’t mean to.
It just…came out of nowhere.
It had been two weeks since I’d seen him, two weeks since I’d heard the nickname that used to make my blood boil but had long since cut deep.
