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perspective.” She hoped.
    He nodded. “You seem like a nice girl so I figured you
deserved the heads up.”
    “That’s sweet and I appreciate it,” she said with a sincere
smile.
    Not long after Adam’s fair warning, the bar closed up and
they all said their goodbyes and dispersed in their separate vehicles. Adam,
she noted with amusement, went home with the pretty redhead she had seen him
flirting with earlier.
    Once Emma was back at her motel room waiting for Ben, Adam’s
words rang through the silence. Would she be able to keep what they were
doing in perspective like she’d promised him? As much as she liked to think she
was the modern liberated woman when it came to relationships, her experiences
had been limited. She had never tried to sleep with a man without getting her
emotions involved. But that had been the point of this trip. Even if she hadn’t
met Ben it would have been someone . She just hadn’t thought that someone
would appeal to her on as many levels as Ben did, in spite of what she had
mentally written on her “Charming List”.
    On the heels of that thought, she heard a soft knock on the
door.
    Considering that this was apparently such a small town that
everyone knew where she was staying, she tiptoed over to the door to check the
peephole before answering. Just in case. For some inexplicable reason, when she
saw Ben standing on the other side of the door her pulse jumped. She had known
he was coming but the sight of him made their planned meeting real and she felt
just this side of giddy.
    “Hi,” she said when she opened the door. His dark gaze met
hers briefly before travelling down the length of her body. When she had gotten
back from the bar, to keep herself from fidgeting while she waited, she had
changed into a lacey camisole and a pair of boy-shorts. Knowing what he was
coming over for, she decided to dress for the occasion.
    Stepping closer to her, he ran his index finger under the
waistband of her shorts. “You look ready for whatever.”
    Smiling, she shrugged. “I am.”
    That amber gaze visibly darkened before he pulled away to
walk past her into the room. Quietly, she closed the door behind him then
leaned against its hard surface. His big, muscular body taking up space in her
little room seemed overwhelming but it thrilled her at the same time.
    Turning to face her, he braced one lean hip against the
dresser as he folded his arms across his chest. “So what are our heroes doing
when Charlie is forced to break down and tell Natalie what he is?”
    Straight down to business then, huh? Emma could live with
that. Probably made it easier in the long run anyway, she thought as she
remembered her conversation with Adam. Moving farther into the room, she sat on
the edge of the bed in front of him.
    “Natalie invites him over for a late dinner and they get to
talking. Eventually, they end up lying on her bed making out. They’re so lost
in each other that they don’t notice the sun starting to rise. He realizes
before she does and puts a stop to their make-out session, saying that he needs
to get home, that he doesn’t want to take advantage of her, blah blah blah. All
the while he’s quietly freaking out, wondering how he can get to an empty room
in her house to dematerialize without her noticing. That’s when she sees it’s
daytime and goes to open her curtains. He tries to stop her but doesn’t make it
in time and the sun ends up burning him. That’s how she finds out.”
    Ben let out a gruff laugh. “So she sets his ass on fire. I
like it.”
    When he smiled at her like that she couldn’t help it. It was
so uncommon and wonderful that she had to smile back. “He doesn’t actually
burst into flames, but yeah, more or less.”
    “Okay, we can work with this. Let’s start out where she goes
to open the curtain and he jumps up to try to stop her. Say the first line you
wrote after that and then we ad-lib. Follow my lead and do whatever comes
natural from that