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“We need a moment.”
    “Hey, sure, sure.” Sherman raised both hands and backed away. “I can take a hint.”
    Lily’s hands were shaking, so she grabbed a bar rag and started wiping down the surfaces to hide her nervousness. Griffin’s intensity was a wee bit overwhelming.
    Griffin placed his forearms on the bar and leaned toward her.
    She couldn’t help noticing how muscled his arms were, which made her think of how delicious the rest of him would feel pressed against her body.
    “I can’t explain what’s happening,” he said, “but I have an overpowering urge to be with you. You asked me out once, so I know you’re not indifferent to me.”
    Lily breathed in a combination of sweat and faint traces of aftershave and soap. Underneath that, like the low note in a glass of fine Bordeaux, was the unmistakable scent of aroused male.
    Her mind was still sorting through the ramifications of this spell, but her body, still high on magic, had zoomed past all the intellectual junk and was happily responding to the idea of Griffin as a potential bed partner. “No, I’m not indifferent.” Now, there was an understatement.
    “This will probably come out wrong, but I think the attraction is mostly sexual.”
    It certainly is now . She couldn’t deny the flash fire being generated between them. “Maybe,” she said.
    “I’m not looking for anything long-term.”
    How very doglike of him, to want to live for the moment. She kept her voice low. “What are you suggesting?” As if she didn’t know.
    “No strings, no promises. Just come home with me tonight.”
    Poor man, he thought they could have a one-night stand and he’d get her out of his system. But instead, once they had sex he’d become even more enmeshed than he was now. She felt the first twinge of guilt.
    Sherman edged closer. “I don’t want to interrupt whatever you two have going, but I need those drinks, Lily. The customers are getting restless.”
    “Right away, Sherman.” Lily glanced at Griffin. “I need to mix some drinks. Would you like one?”
    He dragged a hand over his face. “Yeah, sure. But not a Wallbanger, just a beer. That Wallbanger had aftereffects. I couldn’t concentrate on anything.”
    But he’s concentrating now , she thought as she quickly drew him a draft and set it on a napkin in front of him. He was concentrating on getting her into bed. And wasn’t that exactly what she’d wanted?
    As she worked quickly to fill the order Sherman was waiting for, she could feel Griffin’s gaze on her. She was no stranger to having men look at her with obvious sexual interest, but this was different.
    Griffin’s laserlike focus touched off little bonfires all over her body until she was so hot she wanted to rip off her clothes and fling herself into his arms. His response would be a guaranteed conflagration. Goddess, but it was tempting to consider what he’d proposed.
    She reminded herself that he was only acting that way because she’d given him the elixir. Well, not entirely because of the elixir. The chemistry between them had always been there, simmering beneath the surface. The elixir had heated it to the boiling point in Griffin, and the lust was quickly spreading to her.
    Good thing she could mix drinks in her sleep, because she was paying no attention to what she was doing as she completed the order and slid the drinks down to Sherman. For the first time she wondered what Griffin would do if she rejected him. How determined was he?
    She had to admit the thought of being relentlessly pursued pumped up her heart rate. And it was already faster than normal because she’d done magic today.
    As she finished mixing the last drink, her cell phone, which she always kept stashed in her backpack under the counter, played “Witchy Woman.” Anica was calling her, and she knew why, too.
    She could ignore the call, but Anica had her own brand of persistence. If Lily didn’t answer, Anica would find some way to communicate. Ignoring