the pile, too. He couldnât wait to get his hands on Melissa. He couldnât wait to feel her hands on him. She knew how to do thingsâ
Flipping off his Italian loafers, ridding himself of his socks, he unbuckled his belt as he went through the dressing room into the bathroom. There was a sunken tub, but his gaze wentstraight to the shower where he could see the shadow of Melissaâs body behind the frosted glass door.
Before he could open it, she turned off the water and stepped out.
âJason!â she yelped.
âThatâs me,â he said with a smile that was supposed to convey his intentions.
It must have done just that because she shook her head, her bleached blond hair falling in wet tendrils across her shoulders. She hadnât dried off and she looked sleek and more than ready for what he had in mind.
However, she nipped his desire before he could act on it. âI canât. Not now. Iâm already running late. I have a meeting at seven-thirty.â
âWhat meeting?â he demanded to know.
âA group of us is getting together to plan a clothing drive for the teen shelter at Christmas.â
âAll this charity work youâre doing is getting tedious, and Iâm beginning to wonder why youâre doing it.â
Still dripping wet, Melissa came very close to Jason. âArenât we pretending to be an up-and-coming married couple?â
âYes, butââ
She put a slim finger on his chin and studied him with her brown eyes. âNo buts. Just as youâre setting up Ryan to take the fall for mistakes in his company, Iâm planting a few seeds of my own.â
âAnd they are?â
âYouâll see.â With the same finger that had played on his chin, she traced his right cheekbone. âHow is your project coming?â
âItâs moving along. Fortune TX, Ltd. is spending money on a phony oil deal and Ryanâs fingerprints are going to be all over it.â
âDo you really think theyâll kick Ryan off the board of directors?â
âThatâs what Iâm hoping.â
Gazing into Melissaâs eyes, Jason saw a flicker of something. What was it? Was she planning something on her own? How would that affect him?
Melissa never let him get too close or see too far inside. Now her hand settled on his chest then slipped lower, over his navel and inside the waistband of his trousers. âMaybe I do have ten minutes,â she murmured with a wide-eyed, sultry look that aroused him to a painful level.
Taking the foreplay out of her hands, he scooped her into his arms. She was wet and wild and hot.
âTen minutes,â she warned him as he carried her into the bedroom.
He dropped her on the bed, let his trousers fall, pushed down his briefs and stretched out on top of her.
âItâll take what itâs going to take, and your meeting be damned.â
When he saw the look of triumph in her eyes, he knew this was what sheâd wanted all along. As she opened her legs to him and kissed him like there was no tomorrow, he had to wonder who really had the power here.
He was going to get it backâ¦one way or another.
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It was almost 4:00 p.m. on Tuesday when Peter finally got the chance to call Violet Fortune. Still in his scrubs, he used the phone in the doctorâs lounge. As her cell phone rang, he didnât have to use many memory cells to conjure up her face. Heâd been thinking about her too damn much since sheâd left last night, and he didnât like the invasion into his usually ordered thoughts.
There were several reasons why she should be off-limitsfor him. Number oneâhe no longer dated women whose career demands consumed their lives. Heâd gone that route once before, and once in a lifetime down that particular road was enough. Number twoânot only did Violet Fortune have a demanding career, but the career was in New York. In a few weeks,