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Knox, who was even better than sliced bread!
    “What mistake did you make?” he asked as he came closer.  Knox was trying very hard not to toss the bottle of wine into a corner and grab her sexy body, all wrapped up in some stretchy fabric that made his hands ache to hold her.  She looked…hot!  Beautiful and sexy, and all so warm and smokin’ hot! 
    If she would just admit that she’d made a mistake in moving here…
    Her hands were clenched together as he walked deeper into her home.  Deeper into trouble. 
    “I shouldn’t have invited you here.  To dinner.”
    He almost laughed at her outraged expression.  “I like the fact that you asked me over for dinner.”  He moved closer to her, the scent of both whatever she was cooking as well as the woman made him feel like a sex-starved teenager.  “Why don’t you tell me why you asked me to come tonight and we can go from there?” he told her, setting the bottle of wine on the counter and sliding his sport jacket off his shoulders.  He was wearing just a dark, collared shirt and black slacks now. 
    She looked at him with wide, nervous eyes as her gaze moved over him, noting the way the dark material of his shirt pulled at the seams, stretching over the muscles in those arms.  “Just say it?  You won’t be offended?  You won’t get mad at me if you disagree?”
    He would be disappointed.  More than he’d thought possible.  But it was the right thing to do.  “No.  Just talk to me.”
    She took a deep breath that caught in her throat when his large, strong hands moved to her waist.  She grabbed his wrists and pulled him away.  “I can’t spill it out if you’re touching me,” she told him.
    He leaned back against the countertop, vaguely noticing the table in the corner.  That hadn’t been here the last time he’d been in the house.  But she still didn’t have a sofa or anything else that would stamp this house as her home.  He tried to convince himself that he wasn’t upset by her departure.  It was the right thing to do.  It would keep her safe.  And alive.  Yeah, this beautiful woman definitely needed to be alive. 
    Maybe he would even fly to wherever she settled next and take her out.  He liked that idea.  A lot. 
    He noted the pink tinge to her delicate skin, making her look even more enticing.  “Okay, I’m standing over here, hands to myself.  Why don’t you just say it and I’ll help you with whatever you need?”
    She smiled tentatively with those words.  “I hope you mean it,” she said, her shoulders tense and her hands tightly clasped in front of her. 
    His eyes glanced down her body with delight.  Maybe they could have a burning hot affair, and he could even put her up in an apartment in the city of her choice.  Some place warm where she wouldn’t need to wear a lot of clothes.  “I mean it.  I promise, I’ll help.” 
    She took a deep breath and nodded as if she were bracing herself for the news.  “I was going to say this over dinner.  Maybe over dessert.  But you seem open to ideas now so….I’ll just say it.”  She released the breath, then took another one as she looked up at him.  “I want to have an affair with you.” 
    There!  She’d said it!  She’d spilled her guts and gone after what she wanted! 
    Now she just needed to wait for him to…ugh.  She had no idea what he might say or do. 
    Looking up at him, trying to gauge his reaction, she cringed at the shocked…was that horror…in his green eyes?  “Stop looking at me like that,” she whispered. 
    Knox tried to respond.  He tried to think.  But all he could think about was peeling that dress off of her body and finding out what color her nipples were, what she sounded like when she climaxed.  She wanted to have an affair with him?  Not leave Alaska? 
    He shook his head.  “Excuse me?”  His eyes lit on the basket of tennis balls right by the door leading to the basement, but he was still too focused on