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to follow wherever that delicious hunger might lead.
    Just as soon as she indulged in one final round of tonight’s game of hot pursuit.
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    J OSH COULDN’T fill his hands with enough of her. Lexi’s lithe little body slid around the chaise longue, disappeared into the mountain of pillows, then resurfaced at newly enticing angles.
    She wriggled and trembled, shivered and shimmied her way away from him, then sighed and moaned her way back again.
    He flung two pillows away and slid her thighs closer to him. By now he was starving for a taste of her.
    â€œWoman, holding you still is like chasing quicksilver.”
    â€œAre you having a hard time holding me down, Detective?” she whispered, that throaty voice alone enough to send him over the edge.
    â€œI’m having a hard time all right,” he growled. He’d been so careful not to use the wrestling approach on her, but he’d never needed a leg lock so badly.
    He heard a jingle a few feet above his head.
    â€œThen, why don’t you show me how a real jailer uses these?”
    Her words teased him to outer limits of control he hadn’t known he possessed. He knew what she was holding in her hands, damn it. He didn’t need the light to see those handcuffs in his mind.
    â€œYou’re kidding.” He held himself very still so asnot to snap that taut leash on his restraint. If anyone ought to be wearing cuffs, it was him.
    â€œI assure you, I’m very serious.”
    Her voice wrapped around him like a seductive devil on his shoulder, the voice of everything wicked he’d ever wanted to do. “You don’t know me well enough to let me do that.”
    Damn but it was hard listening to the good half of his conscience.
    â€œI saw your badge with my own eyes. Besides, they’re not real. I could free myself if I really wanted to…although I have the feeling I won’t.”
    The smile in her voice was obvious. She jingled the cuffs above him.
    She was enjoying every minute of his torment.
    So much for adopting the good cop act tonight. That had never been his style, anyhow.
    â€œYou’re playing with fire, Lexi.” Following the jingling sound, he snatched the cuffs unerringly out of her grip.
    â€œDon’t I know it.” She shifted her thighs underneath him, moved her body restlessly against his. “I’m loving every minute of it.”
    Her words chased away any hesitation in Josh. If the lady wanted to play, who was he to spoil her fantasies?
    He located one of her fidgety arms and smoothed his hand up and down its silky length. She was toned and trim, supple but delicate to the touch.
    On his final sweep down the length of her arm, he slowed his touch to gently massage the skin aroundher wrist. With his thumb he located her leaping pulse and soothed the throbbing vein.
    She practically purred at his ministrations, her whole body humming with contented sighs.
    Until he tapped one cuff into place around her wrist.
    Her breath caught on a gasp and then released in a slow hiss between her teeth.
    He waited, gauged her reaction, weighed her response.
    Soon, she flaunted her free hand by walking her fingers right up the middle of his chest.
    â€œNot so fast, sister.” He captured the free hand and chained it to its partner. “You’re not the one calling the shots here.”
    The sound of her breathing dominated the dark room, coming in quick, shallow pants.
    â€œNo?”
    The quiver of excitement in her voice ignited his desire, robbed him of the last shreds of his self-control. “Definitely not.” He proved the point by looping her arms over her head to rest on a hill of pillows.
    Finally, she remained where he had put her.
    Naked but for a scrap of soft satin, Lexi lay before him handcuffed and breathless, yet because of the anonymous sex rule, Josh couldn’t witness any of it with his eyes.
    He vowed then and there to recreate this scenario one day when he