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right. It would be.” He nodded, his tone giving nothing away so she couldn’t tell if he was surprised by her words or not. “What did she say when you told her that?”
    Ali felt her cheeks heat. When she hesitated answering, he turned his head to her.
    “What’s wrong? What did she say?” Jon repeated the question.
    “That we should just have a fling instead.” Unable to come up with a lie on the fly, Ali opted for the truth, but then laughed as if it was a big joke rather than an idea that had her insides twisting.
    Out of the corner of her eye, she saw his brow rise as he asked, “What did you say to that suggestion?”
    Was his voice huskier than before? No. It was probably just her imagination. Even so, her heart rate sped. Not believing they were actually having this conversation, she swallowed hard and said, “That I couldn’t do that.”
    “No. You’re not the one-night stand type.” Not sure whether to take his comment as an insult or a compliment, Ali frowned.
    “Well, no. I haven’t been in the past.” With her bad judgment when it came to men firmly in place, she decided she wouldn’t mind being that type now. “Besides, you SEALs probably have dozens of women throwing themselves at you day and night . . .”
    Pure unadulterated lust was the best excuse she could come up with for her continuing this conversation about one-night stands with Jon.
    He let out a short laugh. “Not quite as many women as you’d think.”
    “I’m not sure I believe you.” She remembered Zane’s well-endowed date at the party.
    Jon shrugged. “I don’t go out all that much and aside from my cleaning lady, there’s no women hanging around my condo.”
    “Oh.” Crap. She wanted this man. Good thing he didn’t want her.
    His lack of interest came through clearly in the flat tone of his questions and answers. At least one of them was thinking clearly. Her long dry spell in the sexual encounter department would surely lead them down a dangerous path if things had been left solely up to her.
    “We just passed the shopping center.”
    “Oh, um sorry. Make a right at the next light.” Her cheeks heated again as she looked like an idiot for forgetting to tell him where to go. Ali wrestled her attention off her burning desire for this man and onto the road as he flipped on the blinker and made the turn. “Then it’s a right at the stop sign.”
    He nodded and followed her directions right up to the driveway of the duplex she rented. It was dark since she hadn’t left any lights on when she’d left this afternoon but Jon’s headlights would light her way to the door.
    She’d get to the door fine. That wasn’t the issue. The problem was that she knew it was locked and the key was with her car keys she’d left with Darci.
    “Crap.” Ali let out the curse beneath her breath when she realized the full impact of what she’d done.  
    “Problem?” he asked.
    “You’re not going to believe this.” Ali forced herself to look at him, even though she was so embarrassed she felt her cheeks warm.
    He cocked one brow. “Try me.”
    “My house key is on the ring with my car keys—”
    He nodded as an expression of comprehension dawned. “At Rick’s place.”
    “Yup.” Now she really did look like a complete idiot.
    Jon reached for the handle and swung the door wide. Where he thought he was going Ali didn’t know, but as he rounded the hood and came to open her door it appeared she’d be going with him.
    “The door’s locked.” She felt the need to clarify that point since judging by his actions her tale of the absent keys hadn’t seemed to resonate with him. He strode for the door and tried the knob as she came up behind him.
    “Yeah, I figured. Just checking.” He turned to glance at her. “You have a back door?”
    “Yes.” Which would be locked too but she had a feeling he was going to want to check anyway.
    “Okay. Wait here.”
    She was about to tell him she was absolutely certain that