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simply a woman who was comfortable with her sexuality,
that’s all. She’d enjoyed the need and desire that flashed across Seth’s face
and shone in his eyes as he watched her. She’d seen his erection and wanted to
take advantage of the moment, but part of her wanted to lose the challenge, sit
back and enjoy being with Seth. She wanted to be around him for a longer period
of time.
    If she seduced him now, the
challenge would be over. There would be no point in continuing. He would leave
and go back to his safe academic world, and she would once again have been
unlucky at love.
    Kate flipped a switch, and light
flooded the staircase. She turned to make sure Seth followed her and nearly ran
into him. Her pulse skittered. “There are three bedrooms and one full bath. I
converted one of the bedrooms into an office and the other into a sitting
room.” She ushered him inside the sitting room.
    There was a stereo and television
on one wall. A love seat and two overstuffed chairs resided in front of a
small, stone fireplace. Crystal dragons crouched on the mantelpiece along with
several candles. The air smelled of sandalwood and spice.
    After indicating the placement of
the bathroom and office, she showed him the bedroom. Kate lifted her arm in a
wide gesture. A large oak bed occupied most of one wall, the headboard ornate
with carvings of leaves and flowers. A quilt made by Aunt Pandora, each square
a different constellation, lay over the bed. Colorful pillows were stacked
against the headboard and crystals lined the windowsill. “Here’s our room.”
    Seth’s blue gaze darted from her
face to the room and back again. “What do you mean our room?”
    Kate touched his arm and his gaze
followed her touch. “I have only one bedroom and one bed. There’s nowhere else
for you to sleep.”
    He pressed his mouth into a thin
line. “You should have told me. I would never have agreed to stay here or
agreed to this crazy scheme.”
    “Scheme? It wasn’t my idea. We are
both taking the opportunity to prove our theories. You have exactly the same
advantages as I do.”
    He gripped the doorframe with one
hand. “How can you say that when we’re staying in your place and you plan for
us to sleep in the same bed?” He shook his head. “No. There’s a nice
comfortable sofa in the sitting room. I’ll sleep there.”
    Kate cocked her head to the side.
“The sofa is a love seat, and you’re over six feet tall. You’ll never be
comfortable. I have a king size bed complete with goose down comforter. How can
you say no?”
    “Easily. That’s an unfair advantage
and you know it.”
    Kate grinned. “Don’t tell me I’m
getting to you.”
    Seth squared his shoulders. “Not
hardly.”
    “Then what’s the problem? We’ll
consider the arrangement a key factor in our experiments over the coming week.”
    Seth’s intent gaze cruised over her
face. “In order for a scientist to form a hypothesis he needs objectivity. In
all honesty, if we slept in the same bed, control over the experiment might be
lost.”
    Kate smiled. “Yes, but a scientist
also needs talent and creativity as well. Scientists need a certain amount of
objectivity, but without getting close to their subjects they can’t analyze
them. Wouldn’t you agree?”
    Panic flickered in his eyes. She
was backing him into a corner and he knew it. “True, but the presence of
existing information gives scientists a base in order to formulate their
hypotheses.”
    Kate grinned. “Exactly.” She
whirled, walked to the bed, and grabbed a blanket, which was folded on the end.
“Here is the perfect existing information .”
    Seth frowned and his confused gaze
shifted from her to the blanket she held in her hand. “A blanket?”
    Kate threw the blanket onto the bed
and walked to Seth’s side. “We’ll be like Clark Gable and Carol Lombard in It
Happened One Night. ”
    “Huh?”
    She had forgotten. He spent his
time in a classroom and gazing at the stars, not watching