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“Tell me you want me, baby.” His voice was thick with need, and she knew he wanted, maybe even needed, to hear it, but she wasn’t about to give in.
“Never.” The word came out heated, accompanied by a smirk.
“Are you kidding me?”
“Nope.” She smiled, eyes still closed.
“You’re going to be the death of me.”
“Not tonight, I hope.”
He laughed, a deep, sexy laugh that made her want him even more.
“I want to see you, pretty girl.”
Her eyes flew open.See me?She could say no. Deny him what he wanted. But that would be denying herself what she wanted, too.
HUNTER’S HANDS WERE shaking. He had no idea what had possessed him to turn up the heat with Jana, but he felt so much for her, he couldn’t get enough. And playing a naughty game with her was beyond exciting. The baby was fast asleep, he had the baby monitor, and the doors were locked. So it wasn’t worry over Billy that was causing his hands to tremble. He was nervous about what they were about to do.
“I want to see you, too.” Her voice sounded thin and shaky, and he knew she was nervous, too.
“I’m going to end this call and FaceTime you. Don’t go anywhere.” He ended the call, and the FaceTime call connected faster than he thought possible. The idea that Jana might back out in the thirty seconds it took to place the call made his heart race.
Her face appeared on his screen, and he could see the porcelain tub behind her shoulders, water at the crest of her collarbone, and the rosy blush on her cheeks, which was beyond sexy. She smiled, then immediately trapped her lower lip between her teeth. He wanted to climb through the phone and kiss her luscious lips. She was so brave it blew him away.
“Hey, pretty girl.” He was shirtless, wearing only his black boxer briefs. He held the phone where he knew she couldn’t see lower than his chest. His heart was racing so fast he worried she’d be able to tell.
“Hey.”
“Nervous?”
She nodded.
“Me too. You look so sweet. Not at all like the mouthy blonde I’m used to.”
Her brows drew together, but the edges of her lips curved up. “Well, you don’t have that arrogant tilt to your smile, either. You sure this is okay while you’re babysitting?”
He held up the baby monitor so she could see it. “The magic of electronics. I’d never do anything to endanger Billy.”
She blinked several times. “I know you wouldn’t.” Her voice was breathy, and he wished he could feel it on his skin.
“Can you set up the phone so I can see you? Free your hands?”
JANA LAY IN the tub afterward, eyes closed, breathing heavily. There was so much Hunter wanted to say, but when her eyes fluttered open, and their eyes met, he lost his voice. In that split second everything changed. He didn’t just see Jana in a bathtub, with the flush of pleasure on her cheeks. He sawonlyJana.HisJana. He lay back, eyes still on her, feeling bound to a woman for the first time in his life. He smiled, hoping she felt it, too, but she was leaning forward, reaching, and the screen went black. She’d ended the call.
His heart did thatnotice mething again, only this time it felt dark and heavy as sadness consumed him.
Chapter Eight
ALL MORNING JANA felt elated, liberated even, like she’d joined a new club.The Virtual Sex Club, she mused. She loved the way Hunter had looked at her last night when they’d gone from talking on the phone to FaceTiming, the way he’d made her feel sexy and sensual instead of dirty or cheap.
She’d turned off the phone in the same way she’d always snuck out after he fell asleep: without a word. Only this time she hadn’t escaped a morning after. She’d escaped the emotions she’d thought she’d locked away years ago, which were responding to everything they’d shared and threatened to reveal themselves because of the way he’d looked at her in those last few seconds.
Now, as she parked her car in front of the laundry building in the Seaside cottage community to meet Sky and the girls for breakfast, her nerves came alive.
She angled the rearview mirror and looked over her face. Would they be able to tell what she’d done? Did she look…sluttier?Ugh!The girls were definitely not sexually repressed, but what she’d done last night suddenly felt forbidden. Beyond naughty. And Hunter was Sky’s brother, which made it feel even more like she was crossing a line. She really needed to either stop sleeping with Hunter, or…what? Admit to Sky she was having lots of great sex with Hunter but they weren’t even dating?
Why did she think she could do this? It was one thing to hook up and then go on with her days like Hunter was any other guy, but he was Sky’sbrother! She needed to wipe the fresh glow off her face. How did he do this to her withvirtualsex? The man was a master at seduction.
