Sweetheart?The annoyance she should have been feeling at the inappropriate pet
name was smothered under another wave of lust. On his lips, the endearment sounded
like a come-on. One she was all-too-willing to hear all over again.
What the hell am I doing? He’s locked me in his apartment, and now he’s
blackmailing me into dinner? That or jail? Is this how he gets all his girlfriends?A
glance over his superbly conditioned body made her rethink the notion. And then, to her
astonishment, she found herself nodding hesitantly while her mind shrieked at her to say
no.
The satisfaction on his face made her shiver.Would he look like that while making
love? And why can’t I stop thinking about him naked and in bed?
“Tell you what. I’ll meet you at Kincaid’s on the corner of 8th Street, tomorrow night
at six. And don’t be late.”
While she stared at him with her mouth open, her thoughts a muddle of confusion,
desire and surprise, he unlocked and opened the door, and gently pulled her out into the
hallway.
“Like I said, Hailey. Don’t be late, or I’ll make that police report. Have I mentioned
my cousin’s on the force?” He closed the door with a sly grin, and Hailey could only
stare in puzzlement.
She’d been caught by the man she ogled every Friday night. Caught and blackmailed
into dinner. And she had a vague sense of happiness over the situation.
It was only as she left the complex for the nearest liquor store, where she should
have been heading in the first place, that she realized she hadn’t come off as a frigid bitch
for once. And she’d spoken clearly and firmly to a man who should have scared the hell
out of her, but for some reason didn’t anymore. As if in a dream, she drove to the store,
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purchased a few bottles of wine and one of brandy, and returned to Faith’s, curious as to
Sydney’s take on the matter.
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