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his fingers, straight up his arms to rattle around in his chest. Touching Tina was like touching a live electrical wire.
    â€œIf you’ll stay the hell outta the way,” he muttered, not daring a look at her again, “I’ll try to fix it.”
    â€œPardon me,” she said, but she smiled and didn’t move away. Instead, she settled down and crossed her legs. Leaning her elbows on her knees, she rested her chin on her hands and watched him. “You always could fix just about anything,” she said.
    He tried to shrug that away. He wasn’t going to be led down memory lane. Not when he was already on pretty shaky ground. “I was always good with my hands.”
    â€œYeah,” Tina said on a soft sigh, “I remember.”
    Oh man, he was in deep trouble here and sinking fast.
    â€œLook,” he said as he backed out from behind the TV while still trying to keep a safe distance from her, “maybe you’d better call a TV guy tomorrow and—“
    â€œWhat?”
    He looked back over his shoulder at her and narrowed his eyes suspiciously. Then he held up a thick black cable with a silver connection head on it. “I think I found the problem,” he said.
    â€œReally?” Her lips twitched and the dark brown of her eyes shone with amusement and…something else.
    Tearing his gaze from hers, Brian turned around, screwed the silver head back into the wall plate and instantly the picture and sound on the television set blasted into life.
    Tina reached out and shut it off.
    â€œWhy’d you unplug the cable, Tina?”
    She shrugged again and this time, the strap on her other shoulder slid down. The only thing holding her tank top up now, was the swell of her breasts.
    â€œWhy’ve you been avoiding me, Brian?”
    â€œDoing things my way now?” he asked, “Answering questions with a question?”
    â€œOh,” she said and shifted around until she was kneeling on the floor right in front of him. “I have an answer, I just don’t think you’ll like it.”
    â€œTry me.”
    â€œOkay,” she said smiling, “but remember, you asked for it.
    Then she leaned forward, took his face between her palms and kissed him until Brian was sure his eyeballs were going to pop right out of his head.
    And he wouldn’t have missed them.

Six
    I nstantly, Tina realized her mistake.
    She’d thought it a simple thing, getting Brian to kiss her. After all, years ago, she’d had plenty of practice in turning Brian on.
    But what she hadn’t counted on, was her own reaction to the kiss.
    She’d planned on being the logical one.
    The cool-headed one.
    The one in charge.
    But there was no one in charge now.
    They were on a runaway train and with every passing second, that train picked up speed.
    Brian pulled her close and with one hand at theback of her head, held her in a bruising grip. Her heart raced, her blood pumped and her brain clicked off.
    All that was left was sensation.
    The feel of Brian’s mouth on hers. The warm slide of his tongue as he tasted her, explored her. The strength of his hands on her body and the hot brush of his breath on her cheek.
    He groaned tightly and Tina felt an identical response shuddering within her. It had been too long since she’d felt anything like this. Too long since her blood sparkled like freshly opened champagne. Too long since her brain fuzzed over and her body tingled.
    She kissed him back, putting everything she had into it, claiming his mouth with the same ferocity he took hers. Their tongues tangled together in a wild dance of need and she held on to him as the earth beneath her seemed to tilt dangerously.
    His hands moved over her, roughly, demanding, and she loved it. His calloused palms scraped her flesh and sent chills racing along her spine. He tore his mouth from hers and hungrily trailed his mouth along her neck, following the line of her throat and down,