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totally in control in this moment, and a feeling she’d never experienced before swamped her.
    Her breasts felt fuller as his mouth continued to move over hers. He caught her lower lip in his mouth, held it lightly between his teeth, and sucked on it. She moaned deep in her throat and shifted against him, wanting to feel him between her legs. She started to lower her hips before she realized what she was doing.
    She jerked back, pushed herself to her feet, and offered Nigel her hand. He ignored it and stood up next to her. He towered over her, and she tried not to focus on the fact that he’d felt warm and had smelled good when she’d been lying on top of him.
    She didn’t get close to men. She just never did, but that one moment of body-to-body contact was setting off alarm bells in her body. And not the flight ones, for once. She’d wanted…ah, hell, she’d wanted to stay on top of him, continue kissing him until…
    What the hell? She didn’t think about sex. Ever. Especially not on the job.
    She brushed her hands down her hips and turned away from Nigel. “I’m going to check with the pilot and make sure that was just normal turbulence.”
    “What else would it be?”
    She had no idea; she only knew she needed to get away before she did something she couldn’t control. Something that was not in her normal m.o.
    Her heartbeat was racing, her blood flowing heavier in her veins, and her entire body was alive. Her skin was sensitive, as a strange restlessness moved through her. She knew it was arousal, but she’d never experienced it before. She wasn’t a virgin, but she’d never really made love. Never experienced these feelings before, and like another new and unfamiliar feeling, it made her edgy.
    “Something else,” she said, trying to get her head around what had happened. Trying desperately to figure out how to calm her body. She felt jittery, and she knew herself well enough to know that she was going to do something stupid if she didn’t get away from Nigel.
    He gave her one of those cocky grins of his and she had the feeling that he knew exactly how being close to him affected her.
    “It could be an engine out, or maybe a time-detonated bomb set to go off once we’re in flight. Or maybe some kind of odorless gas release that will kill everyone on the flight.”
    He shuddered, and she felt mean as soon as she’d started talking. He turned on his heel and went back to check on Piper, no doubt. She hated that about herself. But she knew she couldn’t change it.
    She’d always been able to find someone’s weak spot and manipulate it. The fact that she’d used his concern for his daughter’s safety to make him feel the way she did, was…disgusting, she thought.
    How could she cause him to worry about his child, just because he’d kissed her and she hadn’t known how to handle it?
    She cursed under her breath, feeling angry and sad as she moved to the cabin door that led to the cockpit. She hesitated there, not wanting to face the pilot until she was more sure of herself.
    She took a deep breath, but yoga breathing never really worked for her. She needed to kick something or punch something. She needed a physical outlet for these emotions.
    She stood there, her hands shaking. Goddammit, why were her hands shaking? Facing down an armed assailant didn’t bother her, but being kissed by a man did. Damn, she was seriously screwed up, wasn’t she?
    She wanted off this assignment, she thought. For the first time since she’d left the juvenile detention center, she wanted to run. Was this just more of the same feeling she’d had when Sam had told her they were taking an assignment from Baron? Or was it something else?
    Her gut said it had something to do with Nigel. Nigel Carter and his sexy eyes, teasing questions, and soft kisses. He’d held her loosely…over the years, she’d had men come on to her before, but never the way he had.
    There had been no doubt he was in control, but he hadn’t