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assistant of yours is a fool. Don’t listen to her.” He sighed into my hair. “After I got home I realized that maybe all of the added stress could have prompted your seeing David.”
    I backed away from him. “Are you suggesting I wanted to see David because I’m stressed out about my book?”
    “ I’m simply saying I think maybe you need to relax more,” he replied as he gave me a supportive smile. “Let’s forget about what happened.” He reached for my hand as his eyes hungrily explored up and down my body. “Why don’t we go inside and get you out of that silly dress,” he said and started pulling me toward the house.
    As we made our way up the porch steps, he put his arm around my shoulders. “So who exactly called?” he asked as we climbed the last step together.
    I felt my stomach clench as we approached the front door. “It was no one, Dallas. Just an old acquaintance.”
    “ Nicci, don’t try and keep things from me,” he murmured into my ear while letting his teeth graze my earlobe. “You know I will always find out what you’re up to in the end.”
    I stopped and studied his dark blue eyes. “And what are you going to do? Torture me to get me to talk?” I teased, wanting to dissuade his usual line of questioning.
    He grinned and the menacing aura in his face lifted. “I’ve got something else in mind for you.” He tightened his arm about my shoulders and urged me forward into the house. “Come with me,” he whispered.
    We stepped inside and he shut the front door behind us. He took my hand and led me across the foyer to the wide walnut staircase. One by one we climbed the steps without saying a word. At the top of the second floor landing, he let go of my hand and walked over to my bedroom door. Letting his eyes linger on my body, he pushed the door open with his foot.
    I slowly eased my way up to him, smiling suggestively. “What makes you think this will get me to reveal all my secrets to you?”
    He traced the outline of my shoulders with his hands. “You’ve never completely revealed yourself to me in all the months I have known you, Nicci.” He sighed as he let his fingers travel up from my shoulders to my neck. “It’s as if you’re afraid to share your secrets with me.” He placed his hands gently about my face.
    “ You’re the one with the secrets, Dallas. Not me.”
    He gave me that knowing grin. The one he only seemed to share with me. “Then let’s have no more secrets between us. Starting right now,” he softly said. He leaned forward and kissed me.
    He gently urged me inside the bedroom as he continued to kiss my lips and face. As he kicked the door closed behind us, he started removing his tuxedo jacket. He threw the jacket onto a nearby chair and moved his body closer to mine.
    I fingered the expensive stainless steel watch on his wrist and then ran my hands up and down the sleeves of white tuxedo shirt. I slowly began undoing the buttons on his shirt. The apprehension and anger that I had been carrying from the events of the day suddenly dissipated into thin air. A more pleasurable feeling began coursing through me as I pushed the material off his shoulders. I ran my hands along his smooth, muscular chest. I kissed the hollow at the base of his neck and placed my cheek against his chest as I savored the fragrance of his spicy cologne.
    “ Just when I think you’re done with me, you give me that stupid grin of yours and make me feel like nothing is wrong between us,” I whispered against his skin.
    He unzipped my dress and eased it from around my shoulders. “Isn’t that the way it is with most couples? We fight and then we make up.”
    I felt the dress fall to my ankles and then I stepped free of it. “Are we making up?” I asked as I started unzipping his tuxedo pants.
    He reached around and undid my bra. “Well, we sure aren’t fighting.”
    I pushed his pants down and grabbed at his firm backside. “So what exactly would you do to me if I did