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it. An agonized groan came close to passing her lips. She wished Eva’s words meant what she needed them to.
    “Thank you.” She reached out and took the to-go cup. Her fingers caressed over Eva’s, and she swore she felt them tremble. “Can you give me a twirl? Let me see this outfit of yours.”
    Eva rolled her eyes and gave a half smile at Andrea’s arched brow, waiting patiently. Resting her forearms on the arms of her desk chair, she held the cup in her left hand. She waited until the woman turned on her toes. The torture intensified from the back, the fabric cupping a full, lush ass.
    Clenching her teeth, she tightened her fingers around the chair arm to keep from reaching out. Andrea took a sip of coffee to wet her suddenly dry mouth.
    “So, blew my money right?” The mixture of seductive huskiness and barely restrained insecurity called to her to soothe Eva. It shocked her that her friend truly didn’t realize the extent of her sexiness.
    “Definitely not. You’ve got your eye on some nice girl?”
    “Maybe,” Eva answered, cheeks flushing.
    She frowned. “You haven’t mentioned anyone before. Anyone I know?” She hoped her voice didn’t convey the envy burning a hole in her stomach.
    Leaning back in her chair, to put some space between herself and the maddening woman, she drew closer to losing her hard-earned control.
    Eva slid onto the corner of her desk and crossed her sexy legs. It would be so easy to reach out and wrap fingers around her slender ankle, and ease those plump thighs apart. Fuck! This isn’t good, not good at all .
    “I’m not ready to say anything yet.”
    Eva picked up the file she’d tossed aside and opened it. Andrea took advantage of her distraction to pick through her memory for clues. She didn’t remember anything from conversations with Artie or any of their mutual friends. Smarties had told her about every date her friend had had over the last five years. The incidences weren’t many.
    She’d never thought of herself as selfish, but that’s exactly how she felt. She needed the dates to be disastrous. The one date the striking woman had gone on with a woman, Andrea had sabotaged. While she considered Marley a good friend—one of her best for fifteen years—she couldn’t allow her to get her hands on Eva. If Eva dated a man, Andrea wouldn’t have to see the happy couple interplay, but she would if her friend brought a date to Sappho’s Kiss or anywhere else in the Pride District. Her barely contained jealousy could only take so much.
    “Andrea!”
    She snapped out of her thoughts, a worried Eva coming into focus.
    “Sorry, sorry, I just zoned out there. I think after this Sanderson case, I might need a vacation.”
    A sympathetic smile tilted lush lips, and the urge to kiss her knocked Andrea for a loop. The craving was a gnawing hunger—an unquenchable thirst. She’d always felt she had her needs under control. But the short skirt and the low blouse frayed the tight reins pulled taut by too many years of denials.
    “Is my tough boss lady in need of a nap?” Shapely legs uncrossed, the tight skirt only allowing them to part slightly, and a pointed toe stroked the side of Andrea’s leg.
    Without thought, she set her cup aside and curved her fingers around the back of Eva’s tanned calf. She stroked upward, one corner of her mouth lifting into a smirk at the catch in the exquisite redhead’s breathing. “Oh, I need something, but it isn't a nap.”
    She placed her woman’s foot on her leg, felt the press of the spiked heel into her skin through her slacks. Increasing the pressure of her hold, she tugged, and Eva turned toward her. The shadowed view of silky inner thighs made her score her short nails along silky skin. Leaning forward, she placed a soft teasing kiss to a dimpled knee.
    “Andrea.” The beautiful woman released a breathless sigh.
    No one had ever said her name with such passion over a simple caress. What would it sound like when she had her