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mother.
    â€œFinesse, Jeremy,” he muttered fiercely. “Keep your eye on the ball and your feet in motion.”
    The boy watched the ball, but he was practically tripping over his feet in his hurry to get down the field.
    â€œDance, son.”
    Seth itched to get out of the car. To stand at the side of that field and holler. He noticed Peter Adams sitting on the bench, his lower lip jutting out like he was going to cry. None of the boys were smiling. Wishing he could motivate their butts, Seth swallowed instead.
    And saw Jeremy glance over. There was no way the kid could see him. He was too far away, camouflaged by a tree. But it was time to go. He couldn’t risk practice ending early. Couldn’t risk Jeremy finding him there.
    Anyway, he wanted that drink.

CHAPTER FIVE
    T HE MAN WAS enough to drive her to drink. Two o’clock Saturday afternoon and they’d spent barely a moment at home. So, of course, Michael still hadn’t made love to her. He’d touched her. Hell, he could hardly keep his hands off her. Yet the second things started to progress, he’d find something to talk about.
    Without really talking about anything at all.
    And Susan thought she was nervous about taking that final, irrevocable step.
    This morning, after he’d thrown Seth out, he’d decided he was hungry, after all. So they went to the new restaurant Seth had recommended for lunch, and a couple of hours disappeared. Then he’d asked to see her office on the way back to the condo, giving as his reason the fact that he hadn’t been there since she’d moved her desk in front of the window.
    Eventually, they’d ended up back at the condo. It was either that or go see the Star Trek movie.
    â€œLet’s make a gingerbread house,” Susan said as they pulled in the drive.
    â€œWhat?” He looked over at her as though she’d lost her mind. Putting her Infiniti in park, he shut off the engine and handed her the keys.
    â€œCome on.” She grinned at him. “It’ll be fun.” And it would give them something unthreatening to
do—at home, where there was at least a possibility of babies being made.
    â€œYou need special candies and stuff to do that,” Michael told her as he followed her into the house.
    â€œGot them.” She’d meant to make a gingerbread house with Spencer and Barbara’s five-year-old daughter, Melissa, at Christmastime. Thank goodness she’d never mentioned her intentions to Melissa, because she hadn’t had a Saturday off in the entire month of December.
    Hanging his coat on the rack, Michael reached for hers. “Gingerbread houses are for Christmas.”
    â€œIf you promise not to tell Santa, I won’t.”
    â€œSusan.” Michael took her in his arms, pulled her against him. Kissed her once—and let her go. “A gingerbread house isn’t something you finish in an afternoon. They take hours of planning.”
    Hurt by Michael’s unwillingness to make love to her, Susan headed for the kitchen. “Then we’ll design a simple one.”
    Michael had always had artistic flair. His doodles were proof of that. But he’d hardly ever stopped working long enough to do more than doodle. She’d like to see him turned loose on a gingerbread house.
    â€œJust waiting for the gingerbread to bake and cool takes all day,” Michael said, walking into the kitchen.
    â€œWe’ve got all day.” Susan was taking ingredients from cupboards, piling them on the kitchen counter. “Besides, it won’t take that long. We can always pop the pieces in the freezer when they come out of the oven.” She had to stand on tiptoe to get the molasses from the cupboard above the stove and Michael was suddenly there, reaching over her, bringing it down.

    He brushed his body against hers, then let her go. And told Susan something she desperately needed to know. He wanted her. He was hard as a