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having to look all the way up to see his eyes, which took her gaze past intriguing parts of Finn she really didn’t need to see that up close and personal right then.
    She took the bottle of water simply because it gave her something normal to do while Finn stood there staring down at her.
    “I still want you,” he said flatly. “If you give me the slightest indication that you’re interested back, I’d be more than happy to show you my beast.”
    Lisa had no idea what he meant, but his tone alone had moisture gathering again. It was accompanied by an almost overwhelming desire to say yes to anything he was offering.
    “Look, I did date your brother— once ,” she said primly. She stared at the floor, at the ceiling, anywhere that she could look besides at him. “It somehow doesn’t seem right to date you too—even if I find you—interesting.”
    “Why didn’t you sleep with Eric? I mean, before you thought you were last night?” Finn asked.
    He already knew the answer, but he wanted to hear her say it. He needed to hear Lisa confirm out loud what his body already knew and what Eric had said. His heart hammered in his chest until he was sure she could hear it too.
    “I don’t sleep around—normally,” Lisa answered, staring at the floor. “I didn’t want to sleep with Eric—still don’t want to.”
    He paced a little ways away hoping she might look at him. He wanted to see her face, feel her gaze holding his while he pried the answer out of her.
    “Okay. Then why did you make a different decision last night?” Finn asked. He was trying to ignore the temptation of making her blush harder. He tried not to read into it what he wanted to believe before it was confirmed.
    Lisa shrugged and shifted in her chair. “I seriously don’t know.”
    “No, I think you do. Something overrode your instinct to stay away from my brother and made you climb into bed with me when the chance was there. Help me understand how in my jet-lagged sleep I could have so totally taken advantage of your mistake. I am not that kind of guy, or at least not usually,” Finn said, tossing his empty bottle into the trash.
    Lisa looked at him. He was dead serious about that alright. It was in his face, the set of his jaw, and the tenseness of his posture.
    “Finn, I don’t know you well enough to think you are any particular kind of guy. And I never said you took advantage of any situation. I have already admitted that I was the one that crawled into bed with you, not the other way around. Shit, this is awkward to explain.”
    Lisa swore and leaned forward to put her head down on her knees.
    Finn watched with great interest but little sympathy. For some reason, Lisa’s continued discomfort made him insanely happy. It had to mean she still wanted him.
    “So on a whim you just decided to climb into bed with a naked man that you had only dated once and didn’t really want to have sex with anyway?” he asked.
    Lisa raised her head, glaring at him. “Wow, it’s amazing how awful you make that sound. The front desk clerk gave me a note from Eric and a key, both she insisted were meant for me. One minute I‘m staring out the window looking at the Boston skyline, and the next minute I’m crawling up your naked body and biting your ass. I honest to god don’t know why. Sue me. I guess the smell of you made me horny enough to do what I did. Don’t you think if I had a logical explanation, I’d share it with you?”
    A grinning Finn looked down at the floor, trying hard not to laugh at her admission. He was going to make sure he took the hotel’s shower gel when he left. In fact, he was ordering a case of it.
    “Stop gloating,” Lisa demanded. “If I have to believe you’re not that kind of guy , then you damn well have to believe I don’t do things like that either. When I saw you and Eric today, I still didn’t have the urge to do anything with him. Yet when I look at you, I can’t explain my interest in you