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thighs were like jelly.
She couldn’t remember ever having sex leaving her unable to walk, but she was
sure she couldn’t right now.
    They stayed locked against each other. She waited to be able
to breathe, to stop the continual bursts of stars flooding behind her eyelids.
His lips found hers, softly, teasing them apart slowly with his tongue. His kiss
was sweet, searching, affectionate.
    The water went suddenly cold—he yelped and she squealed.
Laughing, they jumped out of the shower, her thoughts coming a little more
lucid after the cold shock. She got her wish to see his tightly rippled abs
disappear underneath the edge of one of those fluffy white towels as he wrapped
it around his waist. He turned to wrap her up in one as well, rubbing her arms
gently with his hands. He leaned in and kissed her again.
    “I don’t want to spend one minute after I leave that library
without you. Meet me? Or, just stay here, if you like. Wait for me.”
    “I can’t stay here.”
    His eyes turned dark for a moment, disappointment he didn’t
try to hide. Then she let him off the hook. “I have to drive you to work.”
    “Oh, right.” He grinned.
    They dressed, and left the apartment hand in hand. The
morning was warm, fragrant. It wouldn’t have mattered if it was a raging
downpour, it couldn’t have ruined her mood. Nothing like some incredibly hot
sex with a guy like Grant to ease what ailed you.
    The walk back to the bar where her Jeep had been left parked
seemed short, the drive to the library even shorter. The lack of conversation
was comfortable, but she felt her muscles tense and shiver with nervousness as
she pulled up in front of the small building. It wasn’t that she thought he
would just jump out and leave, it was that she was anxious knowing that he
wouldn’t. Him smiling at her, his blue eyes sending sparks through her thighs,
his full lips curving into that wicked little grin was harder to accept than it
should be.
    “Where, and when? This one’s all on you.”
    “Me?”
    “Yeah, you. Take the next step, Teryn. You can be in charge
too you know. And yes, I’m making the jump that you want to spend more time
with me. A lot more, I hope.”
    “Well, telling me to do it is still kind of leading me,
isn’t it?”
    He shook his head, laughing. “You’re wicked, you know that?
Give a desperate guy a break here.”
    “Desperate. Right.” She sighed. It echoed contentment mixed
with the edge of moving into a place she hadn’t been before, not like this. “I
do want to spend more time with you. When are you done?”
    “Six.”
    “Then however long it takes you to get to my place after
that. Come hungry.”
    “You might want to include some directions with that. And
uh, hungry for what?”
    Arching an eyebrow at him, she took a scrap of paper and
scribbled an address and her cell phone number. “Google it. I’m sure you can
manage to find me.”
    “No chance of that not happening, lady. I need more of you.
Before I go, though, I have a question. It’s kind of stupid, really, but I need
to know.”
    “What?”
    “Last night, you just went with me without any fear at all,
and now you just gave me your address without even a thought. I’m damn glad you
did and you don’t seem to regret it, but I’m wondering how someone as skittish
as I know you can be didn’t run screaming, because I was pushing you kind of
hard. How did you know I wasn’t some psychopath who was going to take you home
and kill you?”
    “Because you’ve already been checked out.”
    “Come again?” His eyebrows shot up, a little shocked.
    “Al. I’ve known him a long time. He does extensive
background checks, this I know. Plus, that damn library is his life. If he
hired you and left you alone in that sacred space you don’t have a freaking
crumb of a criminal record or any chance of being a psychotic killer. Earning
his trust is like becoming the damn president. So I already knew if he trusted
you, I could.” In my bed,