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The thought
whispered to him.
    “Rick,” she breathed.
    Yes!He had condoms in his wallet. She moved against
him, close and tight until they moved together. Her boot struck softly against
his butt as she began a rhythm that nearly sent him over the edge. Sweet Jesus
she was just like he imagined. She wanted him .
    Pulling back, he eased a hand beneath the waistband of her
shorts.
    In the next instant she sat up and edged away from him. “Stop,”
she whispered.
    He shook his head and tried to catch his breath. There was
no blood in his brain but he was damned if it didn’t sound like she’d said,
“stop.”
    “What?” he rasped.
    She tried to cover her breasts with the tiny top and he
fisted his hands to keep from tearing it off of her. He could see the fabric
clinging damply, her breasts begging for more of his touch. She stared at him,
clenching her hands in her lap. “No. I… No.”
    A second ago she was hot for him, wet and ready and so sweet.
“I don’t get it,” he murmured, as much to himself as to her.
    She turned away, her shoulders set. “I’m sorry.”
    He sat up as his mind began to focus. She wasn’t a tease. She
hadn’t lure him out to her camp to get him all hot and bothered. That had been
his bright idea. Then why did he feel cheated?
    “Sorry,” he bit out. “You’re sorry. We almost make love
and—”
    She whipped her head around to face him. “Make love?”
    He welcomed the anger cutting through his sexual frustration.
“What did you think, Harmony? I just wanted sex? That I came out here to screw
you?”
    She flinched, but her eyes flashed at him. “Didn’t you? Drinking
beer and asking about my job. Cozying up to me by getting me to talk about my
family.” She gave a little snort. “I almost fell for it.”
    He blew out a breath. “Don’t deny you wanted me. Just ten
seconds ago you almost came. I felt it.”
    She stood and grabbed up the beer bottles. For a second he
thought she’d crack him over the head for that last bit of genius. But instead she
turned and stalked away from him.
    “Good night, Rick,” she said.
    He watched as she entered her cabin and slammed the door.
    “You wanted me, Harmony,” he called. “As much as I wanted
you!”
    He heard a muttered something, most likely a curse, but the
door remained shut. He looked down at himself, his body still eager for
something it wouldn’t get tonight. It wouldn’t be a curse that made sleep
difficult tonight.
    He squeezed his eyes shut. “Well, damn.”

Chapter 7
    Harmony wrapped her arms around her waist and closed her
eyes. Every nerve tingled as she sought control. It was bad enough Rick had
intruded on her centering exercise. Her space. Her thoughts, if she were
completely honest. She’d been fantasizing about him just a moment before he’d
shown up.
    He was right, darn it. She wanted him. She wanted his
kisses. His touch. Oh, and his body. She shivered as one last tremor racked her.
Her whole body felt swollen and tight. True, she wasn’t a virgin. But nothing
she’d felt before had hinted at what she guessed Rick could give her. If she
hurried she could get him right back where she wanted him.
    “No way,” she said. “Never gonna happen, my friend.”
    He was still out there. She could smell him, believe it or
not. What the heck happened? One minute they were talking about family and the
next he looked so lost and hurt she wanted nothing more than to hold him. To comfort
him against whatever made him look so forlorn. The moment after that…
    She hadn’t expected that kiss. Or the hunger it awoke inside
her. There hadn’t been anyone since Adam and that had suited her just fine. Until
now.
    “Don’t kid yourself,” she grumbled. She poured some water
from a pitcher onto a towel and patted her face. “One kiss from Rick and you
were in heat.”
    She’d expected him to be practiced, skilled and distant as
he tried to seduce her. But she hadn’t thought he’d be so hot, so fierce. It
called