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patted her back until she could breathe normally again.
    Damn, he loved to make her nervous.   He could picture how she would be with all of her inhibitions stripped away—naked, writhing, and moaning under him…or on top of him for that matter.   He’d never wanted a woman quite so badly.
    When she’d kissed him earlier, he’d dipped into a bottomless well of primal sexuality he knew she kept hidden away from the world.   Now that he knew it existed, he couldn’t keep his mind from imagining what it would be like to dive into that well head first and see just how deep it went.
    At her shocked expression, he did a hasty check on his shields.   Nope—fully in place, she must still be embarrassed about the ice cream comment .   And at that thought, he entertained a brief fantasy of spreading ice cream over her full breasts and licking it off.

    Cassidy glanced over at him, her quizzical expression causing him to do another hasty shields check.   He definitely didn’t want her to hear what he’d just been thinking.

    “What were you going to ask me before I brought up the dessert subject?”

    It took him a moment to remember his question had started the whole exchange.   “Sorry, I didn’t mean to embarrass you.   I guess I just got a little too into the spirit of the moment.”

    She gave him a wry smile.   “Don’t worry about it, I started it.   If you can’t take it, don’t dish it.   So what were you going to ask me?”

    “What you ever saw in Brian August.”   He blurted the comment without thinking and at the stricken look on her face, realized he may have asked too personal a question.

    Cassidy wiped her hands on a napkin as if stalling for time while she formulated an answer.   “It’s going to sound incredibly stupid.”   She squirmed in her seat and didn’t meet his gaze.
    The woman has a traumatic experience and you rub salt in the wound—great job, Zach.   “I’m sorry, Cassidy, you don’t have to answer that.”
    “I don’t mind.   I’ve been thinking a lot about it lately anyway.”   She stared at her beer bottle and slowly peeled the label back as she spoke.   “I met Brian after a concert at Phoenix Symphony Hall last month.   He was handsome, polite, and seemed very interested in classical music…and me.”
    She sighed and finally met his gaze.   “I knew it wasn’t right, but I ignored my gut.   And to be honest, I was lonely and figured a couple of drinks with a handsome man couldn’t hurt anything.”
    Her deep feelings of loneliness crashed over him.   She’d become distracted and dropped her shields.   Her mind unconsciously reached out to join with his.
    “You weren’t desperate, Cassidy.   Everyone gets lonely and tries to make it work where it shouldn’t.”   Damn, she felt so right being there inside his mind.   They belonged together.
    Whoa—where did that thought come from?   Panic flowed through him in a dark tide, making his palms sweat and his head swim.   He gently pulled away from her mind touch and tried to convince himself the thought came from Cassidy, but he knew better.
    Cassidy seemed lost in her memories and he didn’t think she noticed him pull away.
    After a pregnant silence that hung between them, she continued.   “When Brian asked me out for the second date, he knew I was reluctant.   But he pushed all the right buttons until I agreed despite my better judgment.”
    She sighed again and mimicked Brian’s cultured tone.   “Come now, Cassidy, such a beautiful woman should dress up now and then in something besides concert black and get out on the town.   You shouldn’t hide away under jeans and T-shirts.   We’ll go to the Top of the Rock for lobster and champagne.   Let me make you feel like the exquisite woman you are.”

    She shook her head and rubbed at her temples.   “There were no sparks with Brian, but I really did want to get out and dress up and feel like an attractive woman for an evening.