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FOUR
    T here were a hundred reasons why Rick shouldn’t be doing
    this, but one primary reason—Ava was his assignment, not
    some hot random babe to have a quick lay with.
    Yeah, right.
    Tel that to his dick, which rocked against his jeans, hard
    and eager to get things started. Tel that to his senses as he
    inhaled her clean, sultry scent while his lips were pressed
    against the soft column of her throat.
    He should have never brought her into this room, never
    closed and locked the door, never started teasing her with this
    cat-and-mouse game.
    But damn, she was fun to play with. And right now she
    wasn’t saying no. Oh, hel no, she wasn’t. Every sound she
    made, every movement of her body was screaming yes. Oh,
    hel yes. And she was touching him, grabbing onto him like a
    lifeline in the dark.
    In the back of his mind, this al spel ed epic disaster.
    Unfortunately his libido had taken over and al logic was gone.
    He had a sweet-smel ing and wil ing woman in his arms and
    he intended to take ful advantage of that.
    He slid his tongue along her throat, felt the wild beat of her
    pulse in her neck, and he wanted to do anything and
    everything to drive that pulse up higher. He’d bet Ava could get
    real y out of control, wondered if any man had done that to her

    before. Because what he’d seen of her so far led him to
    believe that she was oh so reserved, which made him want to
    tear away that reserve and find out just how wild she could be.
    And maybe he was assuming, but he’d guess that she was
    just waiting for some guy to strip down the wal s around her
    and release the animal.
    He kissed along her neck, then her jaw, heard her inhale,
    then exhale as he neared her lips.
    He cupped her jaw between his fingers and pressed his lips
    to her mouth. Her lips were soft, trembling, and as he pressed
    more firmly, she opened for him.
    God, she was sweet. She tasted like innocence, something
    he hadn’t tasted much of in his lifetime. She wasn’t at al the
    type of woman he usual y went for—he liked the wild, knew-
    exactly-what-they-wanted type. Ava was like forbidden fruit
    —which only made him want her more. He supposed he’d
    never quite gotten over wanting what he shouldn’t have, but
    damned if he was going to care about that right now. He
    gathered her close and slid his tongue inside to find hers,
    testing the waters.
    She wrapped her tongue around his and whimpered. She
    was hot, and he was getting hotter, especial y when she
    wriggled her body against his, making his cock jerk against
    his jeans, reminding him of just how long it had been since
    he’d taken the time to be with a woman. Work had occupied
    him for too damn long.
    Now it was time to play. And he intended to play al night
    long with Ava. He swept one hand inside her open jacket,
    smoothed it along the curve of her hip and over, letting his

    fingers press in on the upper part of her ass. She moaned into
    his mouth and moved closer to him, jacking his pulse up yet
    another notch. He tilted his head so he could deepen the kiss,
    used his other hand to slide along her back so he could crush
    her breasts against his chest. Oh, yeah.
    He slid her jacket off, letting it drop to the floor. He grasped
    her wrists, held onto her, pul ed her closer, and felt her ful
    breasts bang against his chest. Damn she had nice breasts.
    He couldn’t wait to touch them, to bare them so he could lick
    and kiss them. Ava had one incredible body and he wanted to
    see it al . Maybe he’d turn the lights back on. It was way too
    dark in here.
    None of this was going to happen fast enough—too many
    clothes between them. It was time to start shedding some
    leather.
    Until someone opened and slammed a door in one of the
    rooms.
    Ava tensed, her whole body going rigid as if she expected
    someone to bust through the door. Not that they would since
    he’d locked it. But her response told him a lot of things, the
    main one that she wasn’t relaxed, wasn’t