Illicit Intent by Debbie Baldwin

Author:Debbie Baldwin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Gatekeeper Press
Published: 2021-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

The Defender pulled to a stop in front of Calliope’s brownstone. They had eaten dinner at a tiny bistro in Bushwick where the owner knew Tox and had started prattling in Italian the moment he saw him standing in the doorway. Calliope had laughed when she caught a phrase here and there: Finally, my customer who eats! Signore Buchanan is here Marco!

Tox shut off the engine and hopped out. He came around the front of the car and held the passenger door for Calliope. She set a delicate hand on his shoulder and hopped down. Together they made their way up her exterior stairs.

This is it. Calliope was aflutter. There was an aviary in her stomach. She was so attracted to this man there was practically steam coming off her skin. Everything about him just did it for her. From the little scar that bisected his right eyebrow to the cushion of his lips to his perpetual scruff that went from his chin to his crown. Would the kiss be quick or long and slow? Or really long and really slow? Like ending in breakfast slow? She was so lost in thought she hadn’t noticed Tox was now facing her on the doorstep. God, she was ruining the actual moment with her fantasy of the moment.

She scanned his body from his milk chocolate eyes to those damn dimples to his broad chest to his hand extended in a handshake to his…

Wait. What?

Calliope looked again and yes, Tox was offering his hand.

What the…?

Calliope took a second to process. Why was this date ending in a handshake?

He wasn’t gay. He was as turned on as she was. Yeah, the turn-your-back-to-check-a-pretend-text cover was not new to her. He didn’t have a girlfriend.

She couldn’t for the life of her understand why he was depriving her of those lips…those lips. Then it occurred to her. He was in charge. He decided. Okay then. If that’s how he wanted to play it…

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