Something About Joe
Mitchell moaned in his sleep.
Reluctantly, Allison broke away from Joe’s kiss to listen more
intently.
    “ Momma,”
Mitchell murmured sleepily through the monitor. What bad, bad
timing from her baby. Please don’t let him call out again, she
prayed, not wanting this moment with Joe to end. But “Momma” came
the little voice again.
    Joe released
her . “You’d better go to him.”
    Allison felt
dizzy, her breath coming in soft, panting gasps and it took a
second for her to orientate herself. She nodded and raced upstairs
to Mitchell. As she’d suspected, her little boy was fast asleep and
didn’t stir at her arrival. His forehead felt cool to her touch, he
was probably just dreaming. Gently she stroked his
cheek.
    Her heart was still pounding at a million
miles an hour. She welcomed a few minutes to think in the quiet of
Mitchell’s room.
    What was she
doing, lusting after Mitchell’s nanny like some hormone-crazed
adolescent? Thank heaven Mitchell’s monitor had brought her to her
senses, before she’d done something she would regret.
    Kissing Joe
was insane. Much as she wanted him, she had to end it. She didn’t
believe in going to bed with someone she didn’t know well, didn’t
love. They’d only kissed but she knew where kisses like that would
lead. Her body might be ready for bed with Joe but her heart
wasn’t.
    How would
she explain that to Joe without sounding like a prissy
schoolgirl?
    He was waiting for her at the bottom of the
stairs. “Mitchell okay?”
    “ Fine,” she
said. “He was just—”
    Joe didn’t
give her time for explanations. He pulled her back into his arms to
take up where he’d left off.
    Her instinctive reaction was to sink back into his
embrace, to enjoy his closeness, the feel of his mouth on hers. But
she fought the urgent demands of her body and tried to pull away
from his kiss. He tightened his hold on her, nuzzling her,
caressing her, his hands roaming over her back.
    “Stop!” She could scarcely get the word out.
“This isn’t a good idea.”
    “ It feels
like a good idea to me.” His hand slid further up her back and
under the back of her bra.
    He
wasn’t...he couldn’t be... but how she
wanted him to... This was almost more than she could
bear.
    “ No!” she
said again, and wrenched herself right away from him. Her breath
was coming in soft panting gasps and it was difficult to force the
words out. “You’re Mitchell’s nanny.”
    Her lips
were still moist and burning from his kiss, the strength and
hardness of his body still imprinted on the soft, female curves of
her body.
    Joe
laughed— a strained kind of laugh as his
breathing was harsh and ragged. “No kissing in the kitchen. That’s
the rule is it, boss lady?”
    “ Th…that’s
right,” she managed to get out, refusing to give in to the thought
that the bedroom would be better. She was still on fire for him,
her pulse racing and her face flushed.
    But he
hadn’t finished. Joe pulled her to him again with one hand, then
tilted her chin up with the other, so she was forced to face
him.
    “ I don’t
care I’m Mitchell’s nanny and you’re the
boss lady,” he said in a voice that wasn’t quite steady. “I want to
kiss you and you want to kiss me. But you’re right. It isn’t a good
idea. This…this has broken my rules, too.”
    “ What
rules?”
    “ Never to
get involved with my employer. But you’re making it damn hard for
me to remember why I made those rules.”
    Her heart thudded at still being so close to him.
One part of her—the untamed, impulsive part she’d never given in
to—wanted him to kiss away her protests, to reassure her that
kissing him was a fantastic idea.
    His eyes
were deep and shadowed and he kissed her again, a swift hard
pressure on her mouth, before he drew away from her.
    “ But I’m not
going to hang around to prove how noble I can be,” he said, tearing
the dishtowel from his waist. “I’m out of here.”
    With a swift
turn, he headed for the

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