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busy, they’d only been able to
squeeze in a few days or a week here or there. Sometimes months could go by
before they saw each other. Absence might not make the heart grow fonder, but
it did leave certain other parts hungry for more.
    This had been one
of the longer stretches he’d been away without a leave. As the time went by,
she’d found herself wondering more than once what he was doing and how he was.
He never wrote or called, of course, although she’d thought about dropping him
a line every once in a while, only to dismiss the idea. She didn’t know how to
reach him, and at any rate, she didn’t know how he’d react. It wasn’t that kind
of relationship. But she couldn’t help thinking about him from time to time,
and every time she did, the ache inside her for his loving grew heavier.
    She could have
gone out and found someone else to tend to her needs in the meantime. They
certainly didn’t have any kind of commitment to each other and were free to do
whatever—and whomever—they wanted when they were apart. But she didn’t have
time to go looking for a man and none had fallen into her lap with little
effort on her part. She’d found herself waiting for his return, wanting him
more and more with each passing day.
    And then she'd
gotten his text. All she'd had to do was see a new message from that familiar
number, and all that pent-up lust that had been building for months had almost
erupted. She could have come right then and there.
    Only a few more
hours and she would do just that. Over and over and over again, if past
experience was any indication. She couldn’t keep a big, goofy grin off her face
at the thought of it, the same grin she’d no doubt be wearing several times
tonight.
    The silence of
the room finally sank through her horny thoughts. She forced her eyes to focus.
    Both Jackie and
Ashley were watching her. As soon as they saw she’d noticed, they broke out
into laughter.
    “You were
right,” Jackie said. “She didn’t hear anything we said.”
    Nina couldn’t
help blushing again. Damn, she really was losing it. And she still had the rest
of the day to go.
    “Okay, that’s
enough,” she said in her sternest voice. She reached for the final cupcake and
tried to look as coolly professional as possible. “I’m sure our customers would
like it if we tried to get some work done today.”
    “I don’t think
we’re the ones you need to be telling that,” Ashley said with just as much mock
seriousness.
    “Unless it was
thinking about work that was making you grin like that,” Jackie chimed in.
    Nina groaned.
She hated being so transparent. She was a twenty-seven-year-old woman acting
like a horny teenager.
    “Let’s cut her
some slack,” Ashley relented. Moving to the door, she extended her hands to
Jackie to help her up. “And leave her alone with her thoughts.”
    The two women
padded out of the kitchen. With one last indulgent smile, Ashley pulled the
door shut behind her. Nina glanced down and did her best to concentrate on the
cupcakes.
    Five minutes
later, she found herself staring at a towering pile of icing that was more than
any cupcake could handle.
    With a sigh, she
started scraping most of it off. She was kidding herself. There was no way she
was going to get any work done today, not with her body strumming with nervous
energy and the low ache between her legs dragging her thoughts back to Bobby
time and again.
    Just a few more
hours, and then his hands would be on her, and she could touch him, and he’d
put that expert mouth of his on her—
    Molten heat
rolled down her spine and she shuddered.
    Tonight couldn’t
come soon enough.
     
    BOBBY REACHED FOR
the last button on his shirt, only to discover he’d run out of corresponding
holes. Jarred out of his thoughts, he glared down at the two shirt ends held in
each of his hands. They were completely out of alignment. He hadn’t been paying
attention and had missed a hole along the way.
    Sighing, he
started to