The cool liquor swirled in my mouth. I heard the constant thrums of the nightclub’s music like a second beating heart. I ran my hands down the cold brick wall, clawing at the rough rock. I liked the roughness under my fingertips. I liked the pain. I liked the pain even more since it kept me in the present and not drifting away into oblivion. I had to keep my mind about me. His large hands cupped the curve of my breast and I knew I was falling out of reality. I moaned in appreciation at his wandering hands. It had been too long since I felt a man’s touch and even longer since a man who knew how to play me like an instrument. The music escaping the club had me heady or maybe it was the half dozen drinks. I smiled at my joke and closed my eyes, arching my back into those wonderful hands. The buttons of my top sprang free. The desert night air felt cool on my sweat-slicked body. I could imagine my body open to the world and snickered in my dreamlike haze. He tended to me like I was an exquisite prize he just won and he had to learn every inch of me. It really had been far too long since a man touched me. I could feel him lean in closer and his cool breath pass over my breast. That soft cool breath snapped me from my dream. A man’s breath shouldn’t be cool. I looked at him on his knees, as he began to slide up my skirt. I saw the cool blue smoky mist seeping from his eyes and his thin lips. His hands slid up my sides and he trailed cool kisses up my body. I leaned my head back and closed my eyes in silent argument with myself. Part of me wasn’t willing to make him stop, but the other intrusive bitch wouldn’t let up. He was after all a ghost. He had been dead for few years; otherwise he couldn’t hold his form this well. My analyzing was starting to dampen my need. I was here for business. I purred when he snaked his hands behind me and roughly grabbed my ass. Trails of kisses over my collarbone lowered to my aching nipples. I knew I shouldn’t enjoy this, but a woman could get used to phantom hands. They could be everywhere and nowhere, all at the same time. The cold bite of his mouth over my needy breasts was enough to give me the strength to push him away. No matter how tempting it felt, it wasn’t natural. I was finally grounded to reality and standing only a few feet away from a devastatingly handsome ghost. He was tall, hankering over my five foot eight inches. His hair was short, but long enough to fall into his intense gaze. In life, he must’ve had the kind of eyes to make a girl’s panties melt. In death, the soft blue light pooling out of his eyes gave him a predatory stare, but it was sexy enough to make a good girl want to go bad. There wasn’t a doubt in my mind he was bad too. I stared up the long lean length of him, my eyes catching the bulge of muscles and stopping at the cruel quirk of his thin lips. The twist of his lips and the taunting gleam in his eyes was like a bucket of cold water on my libido. I buttoned up my blouse, not loving the tremble in my hands. A small part of me wanted to rip my clothes off and beg for his touch; the other part wanted to run screaming from the hungry look in his eyes. “You’ve been a very naughty ghost Richard Parker.” The use of his name didn’t have the desired effect on him. He only shrugged his shoulders and began to creep forward with a deliciously masculine sway of his hips. I gnawed on my lips to concentrate. I held up my hand and he stopped just enough so I could feel the hard muscles of his chest underneath my palm. I wanted to fuck him and I wanted to fuck him really bad. I pulled myself together enough to remove my now wandering hand. This ghost was starting to get on my nerves. My voice hardened to the business tone I always use with ghosts. “You’ve been luring women out here.” He blinked sheepishly at me. “I only want to have a little fun. Don’t you want to have some fun with me?” When his hands touched me