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room.  First, though, he asked, “You okay to drive?”
    He’d only seen me drink a couple of beers, but I thought it was sweet that he’d ask.  I tried to look cute and seductive, puckering out my lower lip a little.  “I could drive, but I didn’t bring my car.”  I felt better about not lying.  I was avoiding using my car at all costs, and Steph dropped me off on her way to Walmart.  I figured I could get a ride home from Fay if the plan failed.
    Kage nodded.  “Hmm.”  And then he was off to the restroom.  He’d grown more reserved since his friends had left, and I was bummed, because we’d hit it off so well.
    But I knew—it was now or never.  I took a deep breath and slammed what was left of my beer, then walked through the doorway that led to the hall.  It wasn’t long before he came out of the men’s room and I got close to him.  At least if he turned me down now, I could tell Fay without feeling like a liar that I’d given it my best shot.  I’d never been so forward with a man before, but I’d promised to test his resolve.  I placed my hand on his chest to stop him from moving forward.  “I think we need to get out of here.”
    I was so close to him that I could have felt his breath on my cheek at the right angle.  And there was that magnetic pull.  I wanted him so badly, even knowing the filthy distasteful facts.  But he placed his hands on my shoulders.  Oh.   This was it.  He was getting ready to reject me.  Part of me felt a huge weight slide off my back.  I could sleep tonight, knowing I hadn’t made him break his sacred vow.  And, connection or not, I would get over him.  “Look, Jessica, you seem like a nice girl, but there’s something I haven’t told you.”  He took a deep breath as if to find his willpower.  “I’m married…and I can’t cheat on my wife.”
    I couldn’t look him in the eye anymore.  While I felt glad on the one hand and disappointed on the other, I also felt something else:   ashamed.  I felt like a homewrecking whore, and I dropped my eyes.  I couldn’t look in his anymore.  His hands were a little too tight around my shoulders, though, and that kept me focused, so when I looked down, I saw that he could probably be persuaded with a little more effort.  That magnetic pull I felt toward him?  Well, he was feeling it for me too.
    And the greedy side of me, the part that wanted this man worse than I’d ever wanted anyone else, decided to act on that.  I got closer to him and got up a little on my tiptoes so I could breathe in his ear.  “Your lips say you can’t…but your cock says something else entirely.”  And in that second, I cupped his package in my hand.  It couldn’t have been any harder.  I heard and felt a hot breath of air escape his lips and then he did push me away.  I was impressed that he had that kind of willpower, because mine was completely gone.
     
     

 
     
     
    Chapter Five
     
    KAGE STARED AT me for what seemed like minutes, but I know it was only a few intense seconds.  I could see the struggle behind his eyes, because I had felt it too.  He pushed me against the wall and kissed me, hard and demanding, and I would have thought it would be a relief.  Instead, it fueled my fire.  He ended the kiss and said, “Yeah, but not here.”  He acted like he was out of his mind with furious desire…or maybe it was me.  “I know too many people here.”  He clenched his jaw together and closed his eyes, taking a deep breath.  “Follow me…but not too close.”
    My body obeyed, because by this point, it wanted and needed him desperately, but my mind was questioning everything, almost worse than before.
    But as I followed him through the crowded bar and out into the cool night air, I could still feel his lips on mine, could yet taste him, and I sucked my bottom lip into my mouth.  I felt like I thought he did, based on the look in his eyes—there was no concentrating, and I couldn’t be