Free Sinful by Marie Rochelle Page A

her hand. He moved it from the side of his face.
    “What?” she asked, blinking before looking at him directly in the eyes. She removed her hand from his light grasp and her skin tingled from the heat of his touch.
    “Why did you help me? I haven’t been the nicest guy to you. You could have left me out there and it might have been hours before anyone found me back there.”
    She felt his breath on her cheek as he studied her waiting for an answer from her. “I thought about it, but I’m not that kind of person. I would have been thinking about what happened to you all night. No matter how badly we don’t get along or hate each other, I wouldn’t leave my worst enemy or even you lying out there alone in pain. It wouldn’t sit well on my conscience,” she said, turning way and starting to clean up the mess next to her.
    “Thank you,” Jensen said, touching her on the arm.
    Maymi glanced down at Jensen’s long, tanned fingers before moving away. “You’re welcome,” she said, just as someone knocked on the door.
    Turning, she saw two police officers standing there. She didn’t even remember locking the door, but she could have done it in the frenzy of everything that had been going on. Going over to it, she unlocked it and moved back so they could come inside.
    “Ma’am, we got a call about someone getting attacked,” the older officer said to her.
    “Yes, it was Mr. Lowe,” she said, pointing over to Jensen. She watched as the officer left her and walked over to him, leaving her alone with the second younger and cuter officer.
    “Did you witness this assault as well?” he asked her.
    “Yes, I saw the end of the attack.” Maymi wondered how much of this she would be dragged into. It was getting late and she needed to get home because she had to be back here so early.
    “I need to get your statement as well,” the officer informed her.
    “Okay.”
    “It should only take a few minutes and then you can be on your way.”
    After answering several questions and giving a description of both men, the cops finally left twenty minutes later. Once they were gone, Maymi finished cleaning up everything while Jensen drank the cup of coffee she fixed for him while still waiting for Casper to show up.
    “I swear my brother doesn’t know how to be punctual if it bit him on the ass,” Jensen complained, sitting his hot coffee cup down on the table. “I know you hate spending all of this extra time with me.”
    “You’re making too much out of it,” Maymi replied. She really didn’t mind Jensen begin this close to her. “It hasn’t been that long since you called him and I’m sure Casper is on his way. You can stay here while you wait for him. I’ll be back after I throw all of this into the trash.”
    Leaving the room, she prayed Casper showed up because she didn’t know how much longer she could handle being around Jensen and seeing this side of his personality. He was acting differently towards her, but she wasn’t taking it seriously. He would be back to his nasty and sarcastic self tomorrow.
    He was the man who hated her, so why was she feeling the tiniest bit sorry for him?

 
     
    Chapter Eleven
     
     
    Reaching for the cup of coffee Maymi had fixed for him, Jensen watched her as she left him to go back into the other room. He couldn’t help but notice the way her jeans hugged her full ass. He had always been a butt man and hers was near perfect. It was such a shame they were on different ends of the scale, because she was a gorgeous looking female. He wouldn’t mind asking her out on a date.
    However, he wouldn’t ever let that happen because Maymi didn’t know how to listen. He wasn’t asking a lot of her but she acted like her world was over if she found a new location for her bakery of devilish treats. Tonight, she might have gone out of her way to help him but he seriously doubted if the two of them would ever be friends...or lovers.
    His slight attraction to her luscious body would