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“Fine. But you better eat as fast as you can.”
He chuckled as he settled in his seat beside her. “I will eat fast and drive faster if you want.”
She sighed and nodded. “If you want to speed, that’s on you, but Iwillcall the cops on you.”
“I’m the cops, Valentine,” he reminded her. He flashed his badge and a full smile.
“In your jurisdiction,” she said. “It’s not international. It’s not evennational. It is, in fact, the very definition of local. Not evenregional.”
Nero threw his head back with a laugh. She didn’t think she wasthatfunny, but he continued to chuckle as he said, “I have my ways. We’ll make up time so we don’t …” He leaned close to her. “Burn daylight hours.” His minty breath fanned across her face, and Valentine lost her damn mind.
Lost. Her. Mind.
It was the only explanation for what happened.
Because there she was in the sheriff’s truck, kissing Nero as if her life depended on it.
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At least, Nero thought, he wasn’t the only one having a hard time with self-control.
There he sat in his truck, teasing Valentine because he couldn’t help himself, and the next thing he knew, she was kissing him.
Hard. Deep.
Like she had been thinking of nothing else since he had kissed her the day before.
His tongue explored her mouth as he gently gripped her hip.
“Shit,” she gasped as she pulled away, putting her hands over her mouth as if that would erase what she had just done. “Shit!” she squeaked. “Shiiit, shit, SHIT!” She shook her head while rubbing at her mouth.
“It wasn’t that bad,” he chuckled, pushing her hair over her shoulder, ready to kiss her again.
“It wasn’t bad at all,” she cried, covering her face.
“Then why do you look like you’re going to be sick?”
“Because!”
“Because?” he asked once she had been quiet for a bit too long.
“This is bad. We cannot kiss.”
“I don’t think it was bad at all.”
She snorted and glared at him. “Not the kiss. The situation. I cannot kiss you. And you cannot kiss me. There can be no kissing.”
“Sure. No kissing.” That wasn’t going to happen. “Wanna tell me why?”
“Because!”
“We’ve been here before,” he teased. “Because?”
“You offered to help me find my sister. You are the only person who offered, and what do I do? Fuck it up because you kissed me and scrambled my brain.”
“I scrambled your brain?” he asked, unable to kill his smile.
