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had to take a deep breath, and then another when the first one didn’t do a darn thing to make her less lightheaded. C learly, he was brilliant at this wooing stuff.
    “Your gifts were all great. Your office building is amazing. And it’s wonderful the way you’re helping out with the gazebo at your brother’s wedding. But I still can’t go on a date with you.”
    “Why not?”
    “I’m not in the wedding-planning business for money. I’m not even in it because my mother started this business twenty-five years ago. I do what I do because I believe in love. Love that’s meant to be. Love that will last forever.”
    Again, he didn’t look at all ruffled. “It’s good that you believe in what you do. It must be why you enjoy it so much.”
    “I really do. Just as I can tell that you love what you do.” Belatedly remembering that she hadn’t come here to talk about the things they had in common, she said, “So now you must understand why we can’t date.”
    “Sure. It makes perfect sense. You’re looking for forever with someone and I’m not.”
    She’d already known he was direct, but even so, wow , she was surprised by his blunt statement. One that was perfectly accurate.
    Kerry knew she should be relieved that he got it. That he could clearly see that the two of them could never work in a million years.
    But the disappointment she was feeling was a heck of a long way from relief.
    “Good,” she made herself say. “I’m glad we both—”
    “Want each other.” He moved closer, and even though he wasn’t touching her, her body came as alive as if he’d pulled her into his arms.
    No one had ever spoken to her like this. Totally straightforward and honest. So honest that it made her head spin almost as much as breathing in his clean, masculine scent did.
    “What are we going to do about how much we want each other, Kerry?”
    A dozen naughty visions ran through her head of the two of them tangled up in each other, his hands in her hair, his mouth on hers.
    Still, her reply was, “Nothing.”
    “Really?” He let his question hang between them, right alongside all the sparks and heady desire that they were generating from nothing more than a conversation in his office. “Do you really think nothing is an option?”
    There were few things Kerry appreciated in a person more than honesty. So maybe that was why his question made her stop and think instead of blurting out another automatic refusal. Really think for a few moments about everything he was suggesting.
    If he had pushed her in any other way—if he had tried to pin her against his desk and kiss her into changing her mind—then she would have been able to reject him again outright. But the truth was that her body was humming just from being this close to him.
    And, if she was being completely honest with herself, as much as she wished it were otherwise, he was right: Not going out on a date with him wasn’t going to make this intense, if irrational, desire go away.
    But could she do it? Could she take what she was fairly certain he was offering? Sex with no emotional strings. The option to scratch the itch with no expectations of anything more. No future. No forever.
    Nothing more than pleasure.
    Excitement fluttered within her belly at the shocking thought. Excitement that she could no longer deny had been building more and more within her since the moment their eyes had met in her office.
    Kerry had never let herself entertain the idea of a sex-only relationship with anyone, not when she’d always been sure that someone would make the mistake of falling and that at least one heart would end up broken. Probably hers.
    Any way she looked at things, though, she couldn’t see herself ever falling in love with Adam.
    Yes, he had a knack for sending the perfect gift. And he was also clearly devoted to his family. His brain was impressive, too. But she was looking for a life partner. For the one person she could trust no matter what. For the