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asking for wasn’t easy for her to put into words. “You’re missing your husband,” he ventured.
    â€œOf course.”
    â€œThe way he touched you.”
    She briefly closed her eyes. “Yes.”
    â€œAnd you haven’t been with anyone since.”
    Her face flushed. If he could see her cheeks in the light, he suspected they’d match her hair. “Right.”
    He felt his breath seep out, hadn’t even known he was holding it. “Then you do want to fuck me.”
    When she blanched, he regretted stating it so baldly. But he didn’t want to wind up at her house and have her bail on him. This night had been bad enough.
    â€œIt doesn’t have to go that far,” she said.
    â€œYou just want to make out?”
    â€œI’m...open to ideas. I guess with Cassia gone, it felt like a good opportunity to...” Finally, she glanced up—and then she seemed to lose her train of thought because she stopped talking again.
    â€œBe with a man,” he filled in. Did that put it nicely enough?
    She slid her bracelets up her arm, something she’d been doing the whole drive. “If...if you’re interested. But you’re injured and...I’m basically a stranger to you, so...I’ll understand if you’re not up for that kind of... encounter .”
    â€œI’m trying to get this straight. You won’t let me take you to dinner. But you’ll let me take off your clothes?”
    She would no longer look at him. “I know, that sounds crazy,” she said with an awkward laugh. “I’m not thinking straight. You can go.”
    â€œThis back and forth is confusing,” he told her. “I’ve been getting conflicting signals since I got in your car. So why don’t you tell me exactly what you’re after?”
    Her eyes widened. “You liked the dress,” she said helplessly, as if she couldn’t frame it any more clearly than that.
    He chuckled at her lame attempt. “I like what’s in the dress, and I’m not ashamed to admit it.”
    She said nothing. Staring straight ahead, at his house, she nibbled at her bottom lip.
    â€œLook at me,” he said and waited for her to comply. “Are you really committed to going to bed with a man you’ve barely met? Have you ever done that before?”
    â€œNo. I’ve been with some rather...unsavory characters, but I always knew them before...you know.”
    â€œAnd that means...”
    â€œIt wouldn’t be a good idea.”
    â€œThat’s a no,” he said. “Okay. I’m glad I clarified. Because if I’d had to guess, I would’ve gone the other way.”
    He started to get out, but she caught his arm again, and this time when he looked back, she gripped her forehead with her free hand and squeezed her eyes shut. “Yes. It’s a yes.”
    Suddenly, Rod didn’t feel all the aches and pains that’d been bothering him. Opportunities like this didn’t come around very often. Although there’d never been any shortage of women in his life, there’d been no one like India Sommers. She was refined, educated, classy—not the kind of girl who typically tried to pick him up.
    Lowering his gaze to her lips, he leaned across the console to get a sample of what he could expect at her house. He could tell a lot about a woman by the way she kissed—and he wasn’t disappointed. She wasn’t too assertive or overeager, despite the fact that she was the one who’d extended the invitation. She was still struggling with her decision to do something so reckless. He could feel the tug-of-war inside her—between her idea of what was appropriate and her desire. But she was responsive in spite of that, and her mouth meshed so comfortably with his that he had no doubt he was in for a special treat.
    He could use a few hours with a woman, especially a woman who kissed like this.
    When her hands