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“Callan Lyons, we aren’t going to get along if you keep up like this.”
    That brought a definite chuckle.
    “Who said we had to get along, darlin’? I was trying to help out some. That scream you blasted out rocked my mountain.”
    “Well, big boy, tell me where to find you and I’ll come thank you, real personal like.” Like her foot up his ass for being so damned difficult.
    “Hm, tempting offer,” his voice dropped, becoming huskier.
    Merinus breathed in long and silent. Oh, what that voice did to her insides. Any minute now her juices would be running from her cunt right down her leg.
    “You don’t sound tempted enough.” She grinned, her own voice lowering, becoming silky, intimate. “Come on, Callan, surely you don’t want to have to rescue me again? I’m not going to give up, ya know?”
    There was that silence again.
    “You sound soft, Merinus, too damned soft for what you’re up against,” he finally sighed.
    “Callan, I can’t give up.” She sat down on the bed, gripping the phone tightly. “You have to talk to me. I have things to show you, things I have to tell you that can only be done in person.”
    “I’m not a story, pretty lady, and I know that’s what you’re after,” he told her, his voice so gentle, so soothing she felt stroked, petted.
    “Perhaps you are,” she answered. “Why would you be hiding from me if you weren’t? All I want to do is talk.”
    “Maybe I wouldn’t stop with talk,” he suggested. “You don’t know me. I could be as mean as those soldiers you tangled with.”
    “And maybe I wouldn’t fight you.” She closed her eyes, knowing she wouldn’t. Just the sound of his voice had her pulse skyrocketing, her body heating up like a damned furnace.
    Dammit, if her vagina clenched any tighter she would strangle his cock when it finally got inside her. What the hell was wrong with her?
    She could hear him breathing over the phone, deep and rough. She wondered if he heard her as well.
    “Like what you saw the other day?” His shocking question was delivered in a hot, rough voice.
    Merinus took a deep breath, her tongue running over her dry lips nervously.
    “You knew I was there?”
    “Oh, I knew. I could feel your hot little eyes on me, Merinus. Do you think I jack off for the hell of it? I’m a grown man, not a kid. I don’t get a hard-on with just any stiff breeze anymore.”
    Merinus fought the little whimper that edged in her throat. She clenched her thighs together, fighting the ache there.
    “Why?” she whispered. “Why did you do that?”
    “Because you were watching. Because I know you want me and you don’t know what you’re asking for.”
    “I saw—”
    “Son of a bitch,” he growled. He actually growled the words. “Damn you, woman. This is insanity, you know that, don’t you?”
    Oh, she knew. She knew it wasn’t the story she wanted anymore. It was just saving his life, revealing a major conspiracy, a crime against nature itself. It was more now, and she felt helpless in the grip of what it had become.
    “I could return the favor.” Where the hell had those words come from? Merinus felt her face flush the minute they came from her mouth.
    There was silence again. Long, thick with tension.
    “You’re tempting me.” His voice sounded strangled.
    “You know where I’m at,” she offered, amazed at the huskiness of her voice.
    “Why are you doing this?” He sounded as ensnared by the heated offer as she had been at the sight he had given her.
    “I’m not really sure.” She swallowed tightly, dragging her hand through her hair as she fought the overriding need pulsing in her body now. “Because I want to be with you. If nothing else, put you through the hell you put me through.”
    Her breathing was rough, but so was his. She could hear the throb of desire in it, the same as it throbbed through her body.
    “I’m too old for this,” he said, though his voice lacked conviction.
    “Too old for sex?”
    “For