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any of this. She was having a harder time remaining upright while he was so close. “I bet you say that to all the girls downtown.”
    â€œNo. And if you’re going to say you haven’t noticed the chemistry between us, Alisha, then you’re lying to yourself and to me.”
    Confession time, she thought. “All right, maybe I did notice.”
    â€œYou’ve also noticed my ass.”
    Wonderful. She’d been caught. “Unless you have eyes in the back of your head, I don’t see how you could know that.”
    â€œWhen I was standing at the bar a minute ago, getting yourwine, I was watching you in the mirror and saw you giving it a look. But that’s okay because I’ve looked at yours more than once.”
    Alisha’s head started to whirl, but it wasn’t the limited amount of alcohol that had her thoughts so jumbled. It was him. “Why did you wait until now to tell me all of this?”
    He reached up and brushed another rebellious strand of hair away from her cheek. “You kept giving mixed signals every time I was around you. Stop, go, maybe. I was never sure how you were going to respond to any kind of overture from me. But after I saw you tonight, sitting in that bar alone, looking so damn good, it was all I could do not to grab you up and carry you out.”
    Aha! His true motive. She was the only one alone and, therefore, available. “I thought this was all about friendship.”
    â€œI’m willing to settle for friendship, if that’s all you want. But it’s going to be tough when I’ve had some fairly serious fantasies about you for months now.”
    They couldn’t be half as wicked as hers involving him. “What kind of fantasies?”
    He ran a slow fingertip up and down her forearm. “Like the other day, when we passed each other in the stairwell. You had on that brown suit—”
    â€œYes, and if I recall correctly, you told me brown wasn’t flattering on me.”
    â€œI told you that because what I really wanted to do was take it off you, especially when you leaned your arm on the rail, your jacket parted and I saw just a glimpse of right here.” He drew a line down from her collarbone to the side of her breast, causing a shiver to run the length of Alisha’s body. “That little bit of bare flesh had me wondering exactly what you had on underneath that jacket. Five more seconds and I might have tried to find out.”
    Alisha shivered. “I see.”
    He toyed with the silver-and-green chandelier earringhanging from her lobe. “I’m not sure you do. But let me tell you about my favorite fantasy, then maybe you will see.”
    Alisha wasn’t sure her heart could take much more. It was already beating like a bongo against her chest. But she had to know. “Since you seem to be on a roll, continue.”
    He grinned. “You know that sofa in Riley’s chambers?”
    â€œThe ugly plaid one?”
    â€œYeah. The last time I was there, I’d just seen you in the hall. You asked me about the holiday schedule—”
    â€œAnd after you’d harangued me about not owning a calendar, you told me what you knew, end of conversation.”
    â€œThat wasn’t the end of it for me,” he said. “Just being around you, even for those few minutes, had me distracted. I was requesting a continuance from Riley and I fumbled around like an idiot because I kept imagining us stretched out on that sofa. Naked.”
    Wow. “Please tell me Riley wasn’t watching in this fantasy.”
    â€œNo, it was just you and me, after hours.”
    She swallowed hard. “What were we doing?”
    â€œYou sure you want details? It’s pretty wild.”
    For a long moment Daniel simply stared at her with those incredible, intense eyes. She still didn’t quite believe this was happening. Still had a difficult time believing he wanted her in that way.
    She