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me, and women threw themselves at him, but I was a person who invested my emotions before I invested my body.
    We had almost reached the bottom of the stairs, but I had a strategy to see him eye-to-eye and be firm. I stayed on the second step to equalize our height difference so I could look into his eyes as I spoke.
    “Thank you for today,” I said, and I continued to hold his hand.
    He could tell what I was doing because he narrowed his eyes at me.
    “You’re welcome,” he said as he slipped his arm around my waist, pulling me in to him. I could tell that he didn’t want it to end. He was onto my game, and he was trying to entice me. I could tell he was a man who was used to getting what he wanted.
    “It was nice spending time with you,” I said as I looked at him with genuine appreciation and affection, but an attempted firm resolve.
    “It was nice spending time with you ,” he said in the lowest, growling, and sexiest voice I’d ever heard. “I want to spend more time with you. ”
    His intentions were crystal clear. He wanted to play, and I was losing my grip. I was now convinced that Declan Sinclair could sweet-talk the panties off of a nun!
    Attempting to gain what little control I had on my escalating libido, I said, “I really want to spend more time with you too.”
    My voice was betraying me. It was barely a whisper due to my failing determination. That and his sexuality had sucked all the air and resolve from me.
    Staring into his eyes, I could see a glimmer of playfulness. It looked like he was going to concede, but let me think I won—this time.
    “I think dinner at Fresco’s this Friday would be nice. I’ll call you with the details.”
    It wasn’t a question; it was a statement. He made it seem as if he were letting me have my way, at least for this date. The next one was his. It was where we would go, when we would go. That was that. Without warning, his other arm went around my waist and up my back, bringing me close to him. My breasts were crushed against the massiveness of his chest muscles. It hurt in a good way to be held that closely and that hard by this man. How can two opposite feelings have such a glorious effect? Declan claimed and dominated me. He also frightened me. His kiss announced to me that I was going to be possessed by him. The timing was the only question. He possessed an aura of power and strength. I foolishly thought that I was gaining some leverage by standing on a step where we’d be placed face-to-face, but instead, he released me and looked me in the eye. In what could only be described as an impression of velvet steel, he gave me one last directive; “Wear something sexy.” He then released me and walked to the door. He lifted my hand to his mouth and kissed the back of it.
    “Have your phone charged, beautiful,” then he walked down the steps.
    After watching him walk down the street, I was now left alone and wired from all the coffee to gather my sanity—and to spar with some new found confusion and frustrations.
     

     
    …but while walking down the street, Declan’s proudly thought that what may have started out as coffee, ended as Espresso— intense and stimulating …

 
     
    T Take Your Hand – Usher
    TT Kiss Me – Ed Sheehan
    TTT All or Nothing at All – Diana Krall

 
     
     
    Declan was thoughtful as he stretched himself on his expansive, king-sized bed. Realizing that the self-entitlement mindset he adopted was not going to faze Aria, he took a reflective step back. In New York he was accustomed to having his every need attended, including his needs from women. Only needing to name the place and time, they would show up and the evening would be satisfactory for both of them, no strings attached. Not so with Aria. When he called her to give her the details about their dinner at Fresco’s, she politely declined. That was a shock, to say the least, and a blow to his ego. When he asked her why, she simply said that it appeared he was used to