The Baby Wore a Badge by Marie Ferrarella

Author:Marie Ferrarella
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2011-11-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Calista melted. Quickly.

A moment before she would have attained the chemical composition of a bowl of soft ice cream, she slipped her arms around Jake’s neck, leaning into his, seeking strength.

Seeking sustenance.

Seeking heat.

Because she could feel it all radiating from him, drawing her in, offering her shelter.

Her head was spinning madly.

Meanwhile, wild, wonderful things were happening all through her. She hadn’t exactly been living under a rock for the last twenty-two years but she might as well have been, she thought. Because nothing she’d ever experienced before could compare to this. It was as if she’d been taken apart, molecule by molecule, and then entirely rebuilt.

Thrilled, eager, delighted, with her last measure of strength Calista deepened the kiss, letting him know as best she could that if this was some sort of a happy accident, a momentary slip on his part, that he hadn’t offended her or taken advantage of her. She wanted him to know that she enjoyed being kissed by him. Moreover, that she didn’t want this to be the last time that he did kiss her.

Wow.

The single word lit up in large, powerful neon lights inside his head. All Jake could think was that for such a little thing, Calista packed one hell of a wallop. It had certainly knocked him for a loop. Who would have thought that beneath that sweet exterior something akin to a tigress existed?

Amid the swirling storm of emotions and the impact of her kiss, common sense burrowed mightily up to the surface. Intent on holding him accountable.

What the hell was he doing? his common sense demanded as he struggled to do his level best to extricate himself from the jaws of unadulterated pleasure.

The answer to the question was that he didn’t know. He’d just meant to quickly brush his lips against hers, to thank her and let her know that he appreciated her earlier offer and that he thought that she’d been genuinely generous to make it.

He’d had absolutely no intentions of getting lost in her kiss, or even to kiss her like this, with every single emotion he possessed suddenly rising to the surface and jumping into the fray. He certainly hadn’t intended to knock his socks off in the process.

She was hardly more than a kid, he silently insisted. How could he be having these feelings about her?

The answer, he told himself, was simple. He wasn’t having these feelings. What was happening was simply a rebound reaction. He’d been in love with Maggie and she had closed herself off from him and then she’d died, leaving him with all these feelings, all this love, all of it unresolved.

Forcing him to take them all elsewhere.

But he wasn’t really feeling what he thought he was feeling. It was all just an illusion, a trick of the mind. A distraction engineered by his psyche to allow all those hurt feelings he was carrying around to heal.

He didn’t feel things for this bright-eyed woman with the silver laugh. Wasn’t reacting to her. Wasn’t feeling that strong pull inside him toward her.

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