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to consciously close her mouth as it was hanging open with shock.
    Did he just ask her out on a date?
    “I don’t think that’s a good idea, Cal.”
    “Why? Because we kissed the other night and you liked it? Well, I liked it too. I liked it so much I think we should do it again.”
    She wasn’t prepared for this.
    “I didn’t like it.”
    That only made Cal grin and laugh because they both knew she was a big, fat liar. She’d loved that kiss and had been thinking about it constantly since it had happened.
    “You’re lucky lightning is busy elsewhere, sweetheart, or you’d be fried. Now let’s try this again. Would you like to go out tonight?”
    “No,” she mumbled, shoving papers willy-nilly into her bag and trying not to look him in the eyes. She needed to get the hell out of here because she was starting to feel weak. “I need to go home.”
    “No, you want to go home. You need to face the fact that there’s still something between us. Don’t you owe it to yourself to find out what it is?”
    Mika slapped her purse down on the table, anger and frustration bubbling just underneath the surface as she held on to her temper by a thread. “You are such an arrogant ass. You think no woman can resist you.”
    Cal shook his head and stepped closer so she had to look up at him. “Not in the least. The fact is I’m not such a great bargain right now. A man in the midst of a mid-life crisis. Unemployed to boot. That’s hardly irresistible. But I haven’t stopped thinking about that kiss and I think you’ve done the same thing. I don’t know where this might lead but I know that I want to follow where it goes. Tell me you don’t feel the same.”
    “So what if I do? I know how this ends, Cal. I was there the last time, remember?”
    “Not this time,” Cal growled, wrapping an arm around her and yanking her close. Their bodies were melded together and she was swamped with his heady scent, her senses almost drunk. “I’ve thought a lot about us and there’s nothing for me back in Chicago. I’m staying put this time.”
    With every fiber of her being she wanted to believe him. It would all be like a fairytale with her, Cal, and Alex living happily ever after in a home with a white picket fence.
    She didn’t believe in the Tooth Fairy anymore.
    “You’ve rented the house for three months.”
    His smile widened and his arms tightened around her, their lips so close. “Sometimes I forget how news travels around here. It doesn’t make any difference though. I’ve done a lot of thinking and I’ve decided to stay.”
    “You could never be happy here.”
    “The old me couldn’t but I’ve changed, sweetheart. Already I feel less stressed and happier than I have in a long time. It’s over with the FBI and I know it. I’ll be lucky if they don’t throw me out on my ass.”
    “So you’ll take me as a consolation prize?”
    The words came out more bitter than she’d planned but there was still too much anger in her heart to believe his sweet words.
    “I’ll take you as my second chance at happiness. I blew the first but I’m hoping you’ll want to try again. What we have is rare and I realize that now. I think you know it too.”
    “When did you come to that conclusion?”
    His large hand, callused and rough, cupped her cheek. “This morning, actually. I might be a little slow on the uptake but once I get there I’m all in. Now I’ll ask again. Will you go out to dinner with me?”
    “No.”
    “Say yes.”
    “No,” she said again but it didn’t have the force of the first one. He was looking at her with an expression of longing that she’d almost forgotten. “No.”
    “Coward,” he whispered in her ear, his breath caressing her skin and sending sparks straight to her toes.
    “Challenging me isn’t going to work. And I’m not a coward.”
    “That’s the damn truth. The woman I knew wouldn’t have run from this, Mika. She wouldn’t run away from her feelings. That’s one of the