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marveled at the tightly corded muscles her fingers found.
    Her hips thrust towards him, making Jared curse. His sex throbbed with need as her scent rose hot and spicy from her core. The need to tear into her clothing rode him hard. He gritted his teeth as his eyes caught the tight little bud of her nipple. She was still bent over his arm, oblivious to her helplessness. He could impale her body with her back against a tree and she’d never be able to stop him.
    But he wasn’t an animal even if his body was raging with primal need. Catching the side of her shirt, Jared pulled it across her breast as he took a last taste of her lips. Her frame shuddered as she regained her composure. Cupping her face, he stared into her wide eyes.
    “I’ve enjoyed your visit. Feel free to come back, Roshelle.”
    A second later, she stood alone.
    Her eyes flew open as she frantically searched for him. Every shadow could have been him. She could still feel the man so very keenly. There was no way for her to condense the stimulus into a single point of location.
    But he had released her. Roshelle sent her eyes over the dark forest again. Where was he ? She shook her head trying to force her brain to resume logical functions. Her emotions rolled dangerously and she turned on her heel in retreat. The need for escape pounded through her bloodstream.
     
    Jared watched her go with half-closed eyes. The curve of her hips was sultry. Her taste clung to his lips as he set his shoulders firmly into the trunk of a tree. He lingered over their link even as distance made it harder to hold. She was struggling against his mental hold just as determinedly as she had against his body.
    The corners of his mouth twitched up slightly before he released her. It really was a pity she was a civilian. Bending over, he snagged her jacket from the forest floor. The garment had droped from her fingers and she seemed to not think it worth stopping her escape to retrieve. Her scent clung to the fabric. His body tensed as desire sent another demand along his nerves.
    If she found the courage to come back up his mountain, Jared wouldn’t let her leave it quite so quickly. Turning back up the mountain, he climbed back towards his world.
    * * * * *
    The next two days gave her little time to consider anything other than her patients. As far as the medical center was concerned, it was a two hundred percent increase in workload. The nurses grumbled. Roshelle silently prayed in thanksgiving.
    While she focused on her patients there was no time to think about him .
    While Fate might have been feeling kind, it wasn’t completely forgiving. He floated across her mind every time she closed her eyes. The deep rasp of his voice was rooted inside her head.
    “Well, it’s about time this place quieted down.” A nurse ambled past with a loaded supply cart. She raised her eyes up and raked them over Roshelle. “A good night’s rest should be prescribed for you, Doctor.”
    “Yes, Ma’am.” There was no way Roshelle was going anywhere near her bed before total exhaustion forced her to.
    Besides, she needed a new jacket. She needed a lot of new things. Her belongings currently consisted of what she’d had stored in her locker at the medical center. Her one and only jacket was lying up on that mountainside.
    It could just stay there. He wasn’t a rude boy any longer. Roshelle wasn’t even sure he was real. But she certainly wasn’t going back up there to find out!
    Fine. She was a coward. In big, bold capital letters. It was an easier than dealing with him .
     
    Roshelle’s cell phone began to chime for attention the second she slid her key into the car ignition.
    “Listen very carefully….” While the phrase itself was almost comical due to its abundant use in television melodramas, the tone that delivered it forced a shiver to rise along her backbone.
    No late-night movie actor had ever been able to instill absolute terror using nothing more than his voice. The phone