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breathless. She was breathless. Talk about an unexpected turn of events! Who knew the man could kiss like that, with barely leashed passion simmering just below the surface?
    Dazed, she asked, “What just happened here?”
    “There you go again, talking,” he said, once again covering her mouth.
    This kiss went on and on until her heart was pounding and she was just about two seconds from ripping the man’s clothes off right where they were. Will’s clothes! That thought had her breaking free and regarding him with shock.
    “You kissed me!” she announced, as if he might not be aware of what he’d done.
    “I did,” he said calmly, looking disgustingly unruffled by the encounter.
    Her gaze narrowed. “Are you going to do it again?”
    He smiled, most likely at the disgustingly wistful note in her voice. “I might.”
    “When?”
    “That remains to be seen.” He stood up.
    She stared at him in shock. “You’re leaving? Now?”
    “I think it’s best.”
    “Why?”
    “I’ll let you figure that out on your own. See you, Jess.”
    She stared after him as he walked out of Brady’s, then blinked when Connie and Laila sat back down beside her.
    “That was interesting,” Connie said, looking amused.
    “That was hot!” Laila declared, fanning herself.
    When Jess remained silent, Connie gave her arm a tug. “Hey, are you okay?”
    “I’m not sure,” she said, shaking off the stupor she’d been in since the kiss. She couldn’t keep the surprise out of her voice when she told them, “Will kissed me. I mean, he really kissed me.”
    Laila laughed. “We noticed. Everyone in here noticed. Kate even ran and dragged Dillon out of the kitchen to watch. I’m surprised there weren’t cheers. It was quite the show. If Chesapeake Shores had a TV station, that kiss would be on the eleven o’clock news.”
    Still dazed, Jess said, “He said it might happen again.”
    “Well, hallelujah!” Laila responded with enthusiasm.
    Jess wasn’t entirely sure what had just happened here tonight, but she was pretty sure a few choruses of hallelujahs were definitely in order.
    What she didn’t know was what on earth could possibly happen next. Whatever it was, it couldn’t be any more surprising than that kiss.

5
    K issing Jess had been everything Will had expected it to be and then some. Not even in his very vivid imagination had he expected such an immediate and total sensation of something being right, something finally, at long last, being exactly as it should be. And that scared him to death.
    He was smart enough to know that he’d caught Jess completely off guard. Her emotions had been running high. She’d been a little drunk as well, and he’d taken advantage of the situation. It was a simple matter to turn one kind of passion into another. Any psychology textbook could have told him that. It didn’t mean Jess’s opinion of him had suddenly shifted. It certainly didn’t guarantee she’d turn her back on years of dismissing him and suddenly see him as boyfriend material.
    But despite his very stern reminders to remain cautious, he couldn’t help thinking that just maybe the dazed look in her eyes had told another story. He hoped it meant she’d suddenly seen him in a new light. Maybe the kiss had been the start of something, after all.
    Or not. As he waffled back and forth, he wasn’t surehe wanted to know which way things were truly leaning. Not just yet, anyway.
    Stop with the analyzing, he told himself. Right now he wanted to bask in the sensations that kiss had aroused in him. He didn’t want to do what was instinctive to him and analyze it to death, or to risk running into Jess and having her shatter his fragile hope that their relationship might be on a whole new footing.
    In a move clearly designed to avoid any chance encounters, he hunkered down in his office during the day and in his condo at night. Despite the obvious reasons for his behavior, he managed to convince himself that he was behind