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Melt for Him (Fighting Fire #2)(9)
Author: Lauren Blakely

“Thank you for inviting me. You’re amazing.”

“So are you.”

“We should do that again,” she said, and he tensed momentarily at the prospect of more. A knee-jerk reaction, given his own relationship fears that ran so deep they needed their own running shoes. Then he tried to let go, reminding himself that she was safe because she wasn’t even in town that long. “I mean, tonight. Or tomorrow. You know, before I leave town,” she continued.

“When do you head out?”

“Soon. I’m here for a couple weeks.”

Music to his ears. He wanted more of her. More of this. But not so much that he’d have to deal with the shit he couldn’t handle. A few weeks was finite. A few weeks meant an end. It wasn’t that he was averse to commitment. He just knew it wasn’t in any woman’s best interests to be committed to him.

“Then why don’t we do this again tomorrow night? How about around, say, ten p.m. you walk into my alley and take off your underwear. I’ll act like a gentleman like I don’t see it—”

She smirked and swatted his arm. “But in reality, you’ll be watching every little bit of my alley striptease.”

“Of course. I’m a man. A beautiful woman walks by, it would be wrong of me to look away.”

“You want a repeat tomorrow night? I’ll shimmy out of my panties.”

He grew hard again with the images that flashed before him, and he pulled her closer, wrapping her up in his arms. She fit there well. “Mmm. Yes, then give them to me, and I’ll find a way to shield you from prying eyes as I make you come again.”

“I believe that could be arranged.”

Soon, she was snuggling in closer, and he didn’t mind, not one bit. In fact, he had the best night of sleep in ages.

Chapter Four

She didn’t want to wake him up. The man looked so damn peaceful, as if he was deep in dreamland. She quietly ripped out a sheet of paper from her notebook and wrote her number on it, then drew a quick picture of a raccoon.

A very female, very sexy raccoon with curvy h*ps and a trim waist. She grinned at the image. It felt like a private little joke—their shared thing. She considered it and decided it needed an article of clothing, so she added a bra, and in the middle of the bra she wrote her number.

Text me sometime.

She made her way to the door, stopping briefly in the kitchen for a glass of water. She scanned the room quickly, hunting for glasses in a dish rack so she wouldn’t need to go rooting through his cupboards. There was a newspaper stacked on the kitchen table, with one section removed. How quaint that he still had a paper delivered. Or maybe he didn’t read it, judging from the way the paper looked untouched and unread.

She noticed the section spread out was the comics, and she laughed. Okay, that was kind of adorable. She peered closer, looking for Calvin & Hobbes, since that strip had been a favorite of hers and Travis’s since they were kids. Then she saw that he wasn’t reading this section for the funnies. He’d completed the crossword puzzle.

In. Pen.

Damn, the guy was smart, too?

There went her heart, with a little flutter.

She turned away from the table and headed for the sink. The counter was neat and organized, with just a pile of mail next to a box of Cinnamon Life cereal. She felt a surge of giddiness. Cinnamon Life was her favorite, too.

Okay, it’s just cereal.

Besides, it was the way he talked to her and seemed genuinely interested in what she said that she liked the most. She smiled to herself. Yep. This was going to be a lovely little fling. In one fantastic night, he’d already proven a delicious antidote to putting Jason and their botched history behind her. A few more romps, and she’d eradicate all those cruel memories. She reached for a glass from next to the sink, poured herself some water from the tap, and finished it quickly.

She walked home as the sun rose, pink streaks leaking across the sky, waking it up. Tingles raced through her chest at the memory of how she’d spent the last night. So unexpected. So hot, and yet so tender in some ways, too. This was only a brief encounter, something to pass the time during her short stay here. But what a way to pass the time with a man who’d made her laugh, then made her cry out his name.

It had a quick beginning, it would have a brief middle, and then a perfect, painless end when she picked up one more time and left.

Megan hummed a tune as she watered the flowers in her mother’s front yard later that morning after she and Becker had exchanged a few sexy text messages. The newest Jane Black song was playing in her head, a sexy number about new lovers, so it seemed fitting for her to hum as she gave the tiger lilies a little something to drink. When she stopped, she stood back to consider one of the fiery orange flowers, its long petal looking like the tongue of a rock star. She tilted her head to the side, picturing that petal adorning a shoulder blade, a forearm, maybe even a hip. That would make for a cool design for a tattoo. Later that afternoon, once she and Jamie went to the olive oil fair in the town square, she’d sketch it out.

“Look at you. Up early, watering Mom’s plants, just like old times. Did you already bake muffins and scrub the floors, too, like a perfect little house sitter?”

Megan swiveled around and beamed at Travis. She wrapped her arms around him in a hug, even though she’d seen him earlier in the week on the drive to Hidden Oaks; all her belongings, including her motorcycle, had been loaded into the bed of his truck.

“You know I’m allergic to any chores that don’t require the use of my very green thumb,” she joked as they pulled apart, and she set down the watering can. “But I do love to garden.”

   
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