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about pretty much
anything. Hell, guys wouldn’t be able to have Troll contests if they needed to
be attracted to the woman to get hard. What’s the saying? A couple of beers and
a paper bag?”
    “So that’s what you think of me? That I’m some asshole who
would just fuck anything that moved? Nice, Jos, real nice. Glad you have such a
high opinion of me, or maybe it’s just that you have such a low opinion of
yourself.”
    “Fuck you.”
    “You already did that.” He rubbed his hand over his face.
This conversation was rapidly going nowhere. He was pissed and hurt and so was
she. If he was smart he’d fucking leave.
    “Look, Josie. I don’t know how to convince you about what
happened. Your uncle asked me to take you out. I felt bad about him doing
something like that, thought you deserved better but I was attracted to you,
and I didn’t like the idea of one of the other guys at the house taking my
place, so yeah, I asked you out. Would I have asked you anyway? Maybe, I don’t
know. You weren’t overly receptive at the shoot so I probably would have
thought you weren’t interested. So yeah, maybe your uncle gave me a little
nudge but that was for dinner, Josie, nothing else.” He paused and stared at
her. “You got into my bed because you wanted to be there, nobody forced you.”
    “I know that.”
    “Do you? Because you sure as shit aren’t acting like it.”
    She stared back at him, not speaking at all, and he didn’t
have a clue what was going through her mind. He’d always been good at reading
women, but Josie was different, he couldn’t ever seem to get a full bead on her
and he kind of liked it, except at this particular moment. A huge part of the
attraction was that she wasn’t typical.
    Josie took a deep breath. “I think you should go. I need to
think.”
    He nodded and stood. “I’m not your asshole ex, Josie.”
    “I know.”
    “Good, then you should also know this thing between us isn’t
all that common. It sure as hell hasn’t happened to me before and no matter
what brought us together we work.”
    She stood from the couch. “I’ll call you.”
    He shook his head. Damn stubborn woman. “You do that. But
remember this…” Without giving her a chance to move away, he wrapped his hand
around the back of her neck and pulled her against him. Crushing his lips
against her mouth, he devoured her, fucking her mouth with his tongue, leaving
no questions about how much he wanted her.
    When he pulled back they were both breathing hard. Let
her think about that. He strolled to the front door with Josie right behind
him. He pulled the door open and stepped outside then turned to look at her.
“Don’t throw what we have away over some stupid misunderstanding, Jos.” With
that he turned and walked away.

Chapter Seven
     
    Josie closed the door and leaned against it. What was she
going to do? She could still feel the lingering effects of Marco’s
soul-shattering kiss. He was certainly right about that. Heat like they had was
rare. She’d certainly never had anything like that with her ex. Even when
they’d been in the new phases of lust she hadn’t felt like that about Dave. His
kisses never consumed her, just the thought of his touch never made her wet
like Marco did. Even now, as hurt and angry as she was she could feel the moisture
in her panties, the side effect of Marco’s kiss.
    She sagged against the wall and sat on the floor. Her mind
raced in every direction. Was she being an idiot to let this bother her? Was
she kidding herself that she’d be able to hold onto someone as sexy as him?
Hell, once his picture was splattered over the cover of the firefighters’
calendar every woman in the tri-state area would be all over him and then what?
    Maybe that was part of her problem. As much as she knew
Marco wasn’t like Dave, a small part of her worried about whether she’d be able
to hold onto him. She hadn’t been able to keep her ex and he wasn’t anywhere
close to as sexy