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touching her. No, that wasn’t true. She wished he’d never stop touching her. But she didn’t believe in lust at first sight. Ha, her inner conscience jeered. “I think it’s clear we’re on opposite sides here.”
    He dropped his hand. “Of course we are. That’s probably why the yearning for you is sharp.”
    “You yearn for me?” she asked, surprised. It was the first time she felt like she’d glimpsed the real man under the facade of sophisticated charm.
    “In ways you’ll never know,” he said, his gaze meeting hers. His eyes and hair reminded her of the Norse gods in the Viking legends she loved. But those men were tough, had had to be tough to survive and she longed to know what had shaped Harris. What events in his life had tempered the steel inside him and shaped him into who he was today?
    She clenched her hands together to keep from touching him again. There were hidden depths to Harris Davidson. She knew it.
    He had the potential to be more than a vacation affair. It was there in his eyes when he watched her. In his words when he said impossible things about yearning and made her believe that he could be her Mr. Right. In his actions when he’d lit a fire inside her and put her needs in front of his.
    “Oh, heck. I wish you hadn’t said that.”
    “Honey, I figure my chances of seeing you after tonight are slim. There’s no use in hedging.”
    “Why can’t you commit to longer than your trip? Is it the distance?” she asked.
    “I could lie to you and say it is.”
    “Then what?”
    He glanced out the window, then ran his fingers through his thick hair. She remembered the texture of it under her hands. Her palms tingled and she wanted to touch him again.
    “Tell me about your family.”
    “Why?”
    “Just go with me here, okay?”
    She didn’t like talking about her parents because she still missed them. She still remembered the night they’d died and the night her life had changed so drastically. “My parents owned the restaurant until their death twelve years ago. That’s when I took over raising the twins and the running the business.”
    “How’d your folks die?”
    “Drunk driver. The twins and I were in the back seat of the car.”
    He patted her shoulder. She knew he meant the gesture as comfort and appreciated it. She still missed her parents. Especially now when the restaurant was facing an uncertain future and it was all that remained of her link to the past.
    The house her parents had owned was too big and too expensive for her to maintain so she’d had to sell it and move the twins to the small bungalow she could afford.
    “I shouldn’t have pried,” he said.
    “Why did you?”
    “To make my point. Your parents loved each other, didn’t they?”
    “Of course. They wouldn’t have married if they hadn’t.”
    “You saw the good side of love. There is another side. A darker side and that’s what my folks had.”
    “What’s the darker side of love?” she asked. She thought maybe it was hate but that didn’t seem right. No one married out of hate.
    “Obsession.”
    “Who was obsessed?”
    “My dad.”
    She didn’t have words to say anything else. But she understood the point he’d made. His view of relationships made him leery. “I’m not asking you to sign an affidavit that says you’ll marry me. I only want to know that you aren’t using me.”
    He cupped her jaw in his hands as the limo coasted to a stop in front of her house. “I don’t think I could use you.”
    She leaned up and kissed him gently backing away before passion could take control. “Want to come in for coffee?”
    He pulled her closer and kissed her again. She had no control over the embrace and was swept away by the intensity of it. Ray opened the door and a cool breeze snaked through the car.
    Harris let go of her and slid out of the car. He offered his hand to her and when she stood next to him outside the car, she felt like she was losing something precious.
    “I’ll call