Free Sex, Lies and Mistletoe by Tawny Weber

teenage things, but nothing major. I remember they were scary smart in school, though. Like they didn’t even have to study to ruin the curve, you know?”
    Mulling this over, Pandora nodded.
    “Why? Are you selling bed-y-bye snacks to old man Black? Now, that’s a guy who’s aged well. Talk about a hottie. I’d think he’d have little need for a chocolate-coated pick-me-up.”
    Mr. Black? A hottie? Pandora wasn’t sure what to say to that. It wasn’t that she didn’t agree with Kathy, because Tobias Black was definitely a good-looking man. But it was kinda creepy thinking about him that way when she was nursing a serious case of the hots for his son.
    “If he’s as good a kisser as his son, I’m sure he doesn’t,” Pandora agreed, nibbling at her own piece of bread and nervously waiting for the reaction. Once upon a time, she’d have relied on her own ability to read a person, to gauge their body language, and had trusted her own judgment. But now? Now all she was sure of was that she couldn’t be trusted.
    The question was, did that mean she shouldn’t trust her lust for Caleb? Or her fear of him?
    Kathy gave a gratifying gasp, tossed what was left of her bread on her plate and leaned forward to grasp Pandora’s arm. “Spill. All the details. Which brother, how was it, where’d you do it and were you naked?”
    Pandora giggled.
    “Caleb. It was amazing. In the café, and oh, my God, of course not.”
    “But you wanted to be?”
    “Absolutely,” she admitted with a sigh. Her smile softened as she remembered his lips again. The taste of him, male, hot and just a little chocolaty. Their bodies hadn’t even touched, yet she’d been more turned on than the last time she’d had full-on, two-naked-bodies and real-live-orgasm sex.
    More turned on than she’d ever been in her life, actually.
    “In the café?” Kathy said, a naughty look dancing in her green eyes. “Had you shared one of those sexy treats?”
    Pandora opened her mouth to say no, then closed it.
    She hadn’t put much thought into it, but he’d had a few big bites of the Foreplay cake. So had she, for that matter. But their lust had been the real deal. At least, hers had.
    Doubt, always lurking somewhere but now painfully close to the surface thanks to Sean, reared its ugly head.
    “A couple bites is all,” she admitted with a frown. “But a lot of the power of an aphrodisiac is in the mind, isn’t it? My grammy always said that most magics require belief to work. The power of suggestion and all that.”
    “Kinda like a low-cut dress, huh?”
    Pandora grinned, acknowledging Kathy’s point with a wave of her fork. “A little.”
    Then her smile fell away. “Do you think that’s why he kissed me? Of course it is,” she answered herself. “I mean, he just got to town, he’s so gorgeous he probably has women throwing themselves at him. Why else would he kiss a perfect stranger?”
    Why had she thought he’d found her special? That was crazy. She wasn’t the type to inspire uncontrollable lust. Heck, she rarely inspired a second look.
    Seeing where her mind was going, Kathy shook her head and gave Pandora’s forearm a chiding tap. “Stop that. You’re counting yourself out before you even consider the situation.”
    “What’s to consider?”
    “The details, of course. Start at the beginning.”
    Pandora arched one brow. “When the dinosaurs roamed? Or back further than that?”
    “Smart-ass. When did you first meet Caleb Black?”
    Pandora picked at her slice of bread again, wishing she’d never brought the subject up. For just a while there she’d been riding high on the idea that a man so sexy he made her toes curl had been attracted enough for a kiss at first sight. But now? Now she figured she should raise the prices in the café, since her aphrodisiacs were that strong.
    “Deets,” Kathy prodded. “Has he been in town long? When was the kiss?”
    “Two days ago,” she finally confessed. “He came into the