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flitted
over her bottom lip, ripping another sound of pleasure from her
throat. She balled her hands onto the edge of the dress. His mouth
and tongue took her on a ride that allowed only one
forethought—hold on.
    His hands had moved to the seams of her dress and she
felt them give at his strong embrace. His manhood pressed firm and
hard against her stomach reminded Hazel this kiss could turn into
so much more than mouths meeting together in the night.
    At the thought, another moan escaped and her body
obeyed the silent command. She let her tongue lave each hot, wet
crevice of his mouth until the taste of him took over the remnants
of vodka still there.
    He tasted of wet dreams she was sure to have later,
because this kiss couldn’t turn into more. No, it couldn’t turn
into deep, satisfying fulfillment because she wasn’t like every
woman. She wanted more than his body would give her. She had wanted
like this before and it had ended for her in bitter tears and a
broken heart. Not again.
    But, oh, how she wanted to be like any woman if what
he was doing with his mouth…She groaned and stepped back.
    “Thank you for dinner.” Her voice surprisingly
sounded smooth and calm, unlike the erratic beating of her
heart.
    She licked her lips and tasted him again. That taste
would forever be branded on her tongue.
    His hands relaxed against the smooth material of her
dress. “We’re outside your door.”
    She couldn’t decipher his thoughts because his eyes
were still dark as the night surrounding them. The instinct to
raise her pelvis to meet the hard length, flooded through her.
Hazel took another step back and her foot hit the doorstep. “We
can’t do this again.”
    “I know.”
    “So it’s been fun.” She tried for a flippant tone,
but the words came out husky and breathless.
    “I know,” he repeated.
    Hazel let out a breath that sounded too full of
regret to her own ears. “Good night.”
    She unlocked the door and didn’t bother to turn
around. God knows, she would have changed her mind if she had.
    *****
    Brice stood outside the door long after Hazel had
slammed it in his face. His intentions hadn’t been to touch her.
Hell, his intentions hadn’t been to go any further than smiling
sweetly, then hitting her between the eyes with his
proposition.
    He’d kissed her. He’d liked it. Now she didn’t want
anything to do with him. Brice was worse off than when he sat in
the stifling trailer to get fired. Or finding out his big plans
were for the birds unless he hauled ass for the next month to fix
it.
    He ran an unsteady hand over his face, not letting in
the thought of how much he’d really, really enjoyed the kiss. LL
Cool J started to rap “Mama Said Knock You Out” from his
pocket.
    Brice didn’t want to dwell on what just happened. He
wasn’t even sure what had happened. Bottom line it couldn’t happen
again unless he had a few condoms handy and no will left to stick
to the lifelong dream of creating his own business.
    Women like Hazel didn’t settle for strictly sexual
relationships. They asked for your all, without saying a word. Yes,
it’d been a simple kiss, but if Brice went down that road he’d fuck
it up eventually. How many times had he before now? And nothing had
changed.
    LL Cool J started up again. Turning his back on
Hazel’s door, Brice answered. “Yes, Tony.”
    “Where in the hell have you been? I’ve been freezing
my butt off in the car for the past hour.”
    The sigh rumbled deep in his chest. This is why he
didn’t turn around to knock on the door. Different name, but the
same road to go down. “I’ll be there in ten minutes.”
    “All right. I’ll be in the house.”
    A smile broke across his face. Tony’s past wasn’t the
most honest. “You should have done that a long time ago.”
    “Didn’t know if you had company. Your car’s parked
out front.”
    Brice kept putting one foot in front of the other,
putting more distance between him and that door.
    “Yeah,