“You want to stop?”

 

John’s raspy voice, his flaming kisses, and the desire burning in his intense blue eyes made the answer Evangeline needed to give to that question impossible to say.  How many times has she replayed that scene in her head?

 

Sighing, Evangeline lowered the steaming mug of coffee from her lips and pushed it to the far corner of her desk.   Who needed a hot brew when her whole body still burned from John’s touch.   She thumbed through the stack of papers and files piled high before her.  She couldn’t even concentrate on work for more than five minutes without her thoughts drifting to what happened last night. 

 

“Come on, Williamson, get it together.  It was just too much wine and getting caught up in an unexpected moment. That’s all!”

 

God, who was she kidding?  Chiding herself didn’t help.  She fell against the back of her chair.  She could dream up a million excuses and it wouldn’t change a thing.   She wanted John McBain, and did she ever get him.

 

 As if transported to that forbidden moment, her body throbbed at the memory.   A smile tickled the corners of her lips.  Her pulse raced.   John was an incredible lover, but what they shared was so much more than just a passionate physical encounter.  So much more.   She pressed her hands to her eyes.  What the hell was that?

 

“A penny for your thoughts,” said the familiar raspy voice.

 

Evangeline’s heart leapt to her throat.  She looked up to find the handsome detective standing in the door of her office carrying two large paper cups and wearing a smile so sexy and seductive it should be illegal.  “John.”

 

“Hey.”  He lifted the cups.  “It’s coffee.”  He kicked the door closed with his right foot.   “I was in the mood for something hot, steamy, and full-bodied, and thought maybe you were, too.  Hopefully,” he added.

The look in his eyes clearly conveyed the beverage in hands didn’t occupy his thoughts.   Whatever this was, she wasn’t in it alone.

 

Evangeline pulled away from her desk, and sauntered over to him.  She removed the cups from his hands and set them aside.  “You have no idea.”