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explore her hidden secrets. Ah, yes, this was what he’d been searching for.
    She didn’t lie passively in his embrace. But she didn’t take charge either as he’d expected her to do. At work she was a modern-day Amazon but in his arms he realized there was still a lot of the shy, sweet girl he used to know.
    Her touches were tentative on his shoulders and back. Her mouth under his was soft. Her curves were pliant against him. He pulled her more fully into his body and held her for a minute. His mouth pressed against hers in the chaste embrace she seemed to need.
    He lifted his head and dropped light kisses on her cheeks and forehead. Her eyes were the remembered dark brown today instead of the blue-green contacts she’d worn that day in her office. She watched him warily and he wanted to reassure her. To promise her that he didn’t want to hurt her only show her a passion that he suspected would be Heaven on earth.
    “Relax, CJ, let me in. I promise it’ll feel good.”
    “We have to work together,” she said.
    “That sounds like an excuse.”
    “It is. God, it really is. But you aren’t what I expected, Tad. And I have no idea how to handle this,” she said. Her voice rasped over his aroused senses with the same impact as silk over skin.
    He didn’t have words to reassure her. Wasn’t sure that this was a good idea from his vantage point either but he knew there was no way he was leaving the kitchen having only shared one kiss.
    “Cathy Jane, you slay me,” he said and lowered his mouth once again to hers. This time he took her lower lip between his teeth and suckled. He was so tight and full and needed her more than he’d ever admit.
    He slid his hands down her torso, skimming the full curves of her breasts and spanning her waist. He bent his knee and thrust his leg between hers. She grasped his shoulders and her mouth opened with a soft sound.
    Holding her head in his hands, he tilted her face back and took her mouth the way he wanted to take her. Fast, hard, deep and so thoroughly that she’d never again touch her lips and not think of him.
    She smelled of a sweet floral scent that was wholly feminine. And felt like pure fire in his arms. He slid his hands down her back and around the curve of her waist. Moaning in the back of her throat, she kneaded his shoulders. He thrust his tongue deeper in her mouth. Until she was clutching at his shoulders and returning his embrace fully.
    There was something challenging about the woman CJ had become. Something in her eyes and walk that told all men—especially Tad—that she wasn’t an easy woman to seduce. But he’d always been a determined man.
    He traced the line of her spine down her back to the full curves of her buttocks. Damn, her butt felt as good in his hands as he’d known it would. He wanted to deepen the caress. Her jeans molded to her curves and he couldn’t resist tracing the center seam between her legs. She moaned again, scraping the edge of her fingernail around the neckband of his sweatshirt. His arousal grew heavier. Every nerve ending felt hyper-sensitive.
    He slid his hands back up her body. She was so womanly. He needed to touch more of her and the only way to do that was to slip his hands under her shirt. She made one of those soft sweet sounds he was becoming addicted to.
    He caressed her back and plundered her mouth. Content for now to have her in his arms and be able to taste this small part of her. A part of him knew that he wouldn’t be able to stop if he let things continue much longer.
    He peppered her face with a few small kisses and slowly slid his hands out from under her shirt. He continued to hold her in his embrace until his pulse stopped racing. His erection was still heavy between his legs but he was old enough to know he wasn’t going to die from it.
    He stepped back after a minute. CJ fingered her lips with tentative fingers and watched him as if unsure what he wanted from her. He thrust his fingers through his