With This Fling by Jeanie London

Author:Jeanie London
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2004-02-15T00:00:00+00:00

MAC WASN’T ENTIRELY SURE he’d be able to stand when he pushed himself out of the chair. His heart still hadn’t resumed its normal rhythm and his legs felt weak. Straightening his trousers, he zipped his fly with an unsteady hand.

Harley had leveled him. Since their first kiss, he’d known making love to her would be an event, but he’d never expected anything like this. His wildest fantasies hadn’t hinted at the intensity he’d felt with her tonight, still felt.

Harley had taken control, had established the ground rules and, in doing that, had revealed so much about herself that Mac was still trying to pull it all together.

And he needed to make some sense of what had happened. He’d never in his life felt such conflicting emotions. He wanted to drag her back into the chair and hold her until they’d recovered enough for another round. But he was afraid—simply and honestly afraid. The wrong move would start up the struggle all over again. He wanted to hold her, not dodge her bullets.

He wasn’t surprised that she’d scrambled out of his lap almost as soon as they were through. He understood her rush to get away. They’d lost themselves in each other and, while that event amazed him, it frightened Harley.

A lot, if he was reading her right.

And Mac thought he was. He was becoming proficient at recognizing when her shields went down—and now was one of those times. She seemed so tiny, so exquisite with all her pale skin and red hair reflected in the mirrors around the room.

So rattled.

He wanted to say something, but didn’t have a clue what would span the distance between them. One wrong comment would put her back on the defense faster than he could blink. So he didn’t say anything at all, just retrieved her gun from the sideboard and brought it to her.

She accepted it, avoided his gaze. Some women would have been self-conscious to be standing nearly naked while he was fully dressed, but he didn’t think that was Harley’s problem. She seemed very comfortable with her body. No, Mac suspected she was uncomfortable with losing control. Which brought him up against the real mystery here—why she lived in defense mode.

He supposed he should take it as a good sign that she felt he was such a threat. That was something at least, but it didn’t do much to erase this feeling of ignorance, of not knowing what to do or say to make her understand how much tonight meant to him.

He retrieved her clothes from around the room, fingering the silky thong, smoothing out the soft leather dress. And after replacing her gun in the holster, she glanced up, seeming surprised to find him standing there with her clothes.

“Thanks” was all she said before donning her dress and covering her beautiful curves from his view.

The need to touch her hit him so strong it was physical, so he brushed her hands from the zipper and completed the task. Miracle of miracles, she didn’t resist.

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