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some candy?  I’d love some.”  He looked lecherously at her breasts.  “I know just where to find it.” 
    She almost covered them as she felt her nipples harden and tingle.  Almost. 
    “What do you wanna wager, Detective?” she asked in an exasperated tone.  Her body was humming and she needed to let out some of this energy soon if she was going to beat him. 
    “If you were referring to Candy, my date at the Institute a few weeks ago, she and I weren’t able to see eye to eye on some things,” he said, ignoring the question she’d just asked.
    “I find that shocking,” she snorted.  “It couldn’t possibly have been her name, I’m sure.  And all that it implied,” she said sweetly.
    He smiled mischievously.  “What?  I liked her name.”
    “You would.”  Her last name had been Lane, as in Candy Lane.  She’d looked like a porn star.
    “No, it wasn’t her name.  It was more the fact that when she talked it was like nails on a chalkboard.”
    “Oh, were you interested in her for the talking ?  You couldn’t find other uses for her mouth?”
    Had she just said that out loud?
    His eyes heated.  “Ooh, you’re a dirty little girl, aren’t you, Counselor?  I suppose I could’ve found other uses for it, but it all worked out in the end since I was on call that night and had to unexpectedly head back to work.  Saved by the murderers and all that.  Oh, the irony,” he waved his hand and got up.  “So, my wager.  If I win,” he waited until she was looking at him, “you do exactly what I say.  For one hour.”  He was licking his lips again with his eyebrow raised in challenge, willing her to fight him.
    She faked a yawn and made a big deal out of it by patting her mouth.  “Unoriginality called, it wants its cliché back.”
    He smiled.  “Counselor, I do love our banter.”
    She twirled her finger down by her side as if to say Yeah, yeah.  Get on with it.
    “If I win, you do exactly what I say,” he said again slowly and more forcefully.  “Unless, of course, you really are a chickenshit and you’re afraid you’re going to enjoy it too much.”
    Even though a challenge always made her competitive spirit emerge, she couldn’t help but be annoyed at his constant use of the strategy.  She put her hands on her hips.  “Take your reverse psychology and use it on one of your perps, Detective.  We both know you don’t scare me.”  Much .
    But even as she said it, a plan began to take form in her mind and a slow smile spread on her lips.
    He noted the change in her expression and narrowed his eyes.  “I wish I was inside your head.”  Then he murmured with a soft smile playing on his lips, “Among other places.”
    She ignored the sexual awareness in her body and smiled again, licking at her lips seductively.
    “You seem to like that idea,” he said in a husky voice.
    “Oh, I do,” she said back to him, matching the sexy timbre in his voice.  “The wager idea, that is.  And if I win, you do exactly what I say.”  
    He looked at her with a mixture of lust, humor, and wariness.  Lust won.  “With pleasure.” 
    “Excellent.  Whoever pins the other person three times wins.”
    “Perfect,” he said rubbing his hands together.  “Looks like I only have two more to go.”
    She blinked.
    “You know,” he continued.  “Because I just had you pinned, so that counts as the first one.”
    “We hadn’t made the wager yet.”
    “Semantics,” he shrugged with a wave of his hand.  “You’re not gonna whine about that, are you?”
    She glared at him.
    “Let’s shake on it.  I don’t want you screaming about technicalities when you lose,” he said.
    She stepped forward to shake his hand, already knowing he was going to make a move. Just as he was about to shake, she forced the heel of her own hand up to connect with his jaw then kicked out his legs.  He landed flat on his back with a grunt and she quickly fell on him pinning his shoulders