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  He grinned like a child on Christmas morning. “And my partner in Call & Call Investigations?”

  “Call and Call, huh? How about Call ‘n James?”

  He raised a brow. “Oh, so you’re turning down my marriage proposal?”

  She wrinkled her nose at him. “No, dumbass. Just trying to establish the parameters of our business relationship.”

  “I see.” His look was all business, but she caught the gleam in his eyes. “Call ‘n James, huh? How about CNJ Investigations, then?”

  She laughed with pure joy. “CNJ. Simple. I like it. Okay, partner, it’s a deal. As long as you let me do the research. You’re too grouchy with the computer.”

  “Me? Grouchy? I think it’s you who’s grouchy. Especially on the computer.”

  She could already tell they’d do battle. And often. She wouldn’t want it any other way. “And the legwork we can do together.” Just the thought of working with him again sent her adrenaline pumping.

  He pressed his lips against hers in a kiss that spoke from his heart and brought tears to her eyes. “Thank you for calling my dad. You saved our lives.”

  “You’re welcome.”

  “You were probably pissed as hell that I dumped you at my parents.”

  She leveled a stern glare at him. “You’re damn right I was. But I managed to escape. No easy feat with your father’s security and eagle eye.”

  He laughed. “I knew you were good, Agent Velvet.”

  “Oh, but I can be better, agent Midnight. With the right kind of training.”

  “Is that right?” His hands slid behind her back, reaching down to cup her buttocks and pull her intimately against him. “I love training.”

  “Mm, so do I.” She rocked against his hard cock. God, she’d missed being close to him. He thrust against her palm, making her knees weak.

  “Good.” His voice lowered to that husky tone she’d fallen in love with the first time she’d heard him on the phone. “First lesson: on your knees.”

  She threw her head back and laughed, then nodded. “Of course. You’re the training agent.” She dropped to her knees, keeping her gaze focused on his as she drew the zipper the rest of the way down, jerking his jeans to his knees.

  Tyler sucked in a breath, his eyes black with his desire.

  “What next?” she asked innocently.

  “Suck me.”

  “I’ll do my best.” She cradled the twin sacs under his cock within her hands and caressed them as she stroked his shaft with the other, then covered the head with her lips, drawing him inside the heat of her mouth.

  Tyler groaned and fisted his hand in her hair, pumping his shaft in and out of her mouth in a slow, erotic rhythm that made her panties wet with her own need.

  “I’ll bet you want my tongue on your pussy, don’t you?” he asked, his voice tight and strained.

  She stood when he held out his hand for her. “Yes, I do.”

  He stripped off his jeans and lifted her, carrying her into the bedroom, pulling at her clothes quickly until she was naked. He crawled onto the bed, caressing her from ankles to thighs and stopping between her outstretched legs. “I’ll be wanting lots of sex, Nevada. I hope you’re up to the task because I can’t seem to get enough of you.”

  As she watched him bend and settle his mouth near her aching pussy, she smiled. “I think I can handle that.”

  He blew a soft, warm breath against the dark curls of her mound. “Even at the office we set up together. Think you can handle being fucked by your partner?”

  “Mmm,” she said, reaching for his head to thread her fingers through his dark locks. “I think I can definitely handle that.”

  He took one long swipe of her slit and she arched her hips, crying out at the exquisite sensation of his hot tongue on her throbbing flesh. “Every day. Whenever I want you. I have this vision of putting you on your back on my desk, then spreading your legs and standing between them, fucking you until you scream.”

  She closed her eyes and imaged the thrill of working with him, loving him, every day spent together. “No secretary, then.”

  “And an office with soundproof walls.” He fit his mouth around her clit and sucked; at the same time, he slipped his fingers inside her and pumped. Nevada shrieked and flooded his hand with her orgasm.

  Moving up her body, he pressed his lips against hers, giving her a taste of her own juices, making her crave the joining between them. He filled his hands with her breasts, squeezing them together and licking the nipples until they stood hard and erect, glistening with his saliva.

  “Tyler, please.”

  “I love it when you beg for my cock, baby. You gonna do that every day for me?”

  How could she not, when she wanted him desperately? She couldn’t imagine a day going by when she wouldn’t crave the feel of his hard shaft inside her, creating a joining that she had only dreamed existed.

  “You know I will. I need you inside me. Quit fucking around and fuck me.”

  He threw his head back and laughed, then took her mouth in a ravaging kiss that spoke volumes without words. He slid effortlessly inside her and thrust slow and easy, taking her ever higher into a madness of desire.

  “Harder,” she urged.

  “Not yet.”

  “Faster.”

  “Soon,” he teased, making her crazy until she nipped at his bottom lip and dug her nails into his back. She lifted her hips, grinding against him until he stopped playing with her.

  Tyler slammed her down onto the mattress and cupped her buttocks, drawing her as close as he could, then fucked her furiously until she was drenched in sweat and screaming his name, poised on the pinnacle of an earth-shattering orgasm.

  He didn’t skip a beat as he rolled her over so that she was on top.

  “Finish us off,” he commanded.

  She reached for the headboard and pushed off, sliding over his cock, then rocking against him until she splintered inside, a crashing orgasm sending her juices pouring over him. He gripped her hips and moved her faster against him, drawing out that agonizing need again until she screamed his name and he came with her, flooding her with his cum.

  She fell onto his chest and listened to his heart beat rapidly, then gradually slow. Twining her fingers through the hairs of his chest, she was more content than she’d ever been before.

  She loved this man with all her heart. Before, the thought would have frightened her. Now she welcomed the unknown tomorrow. If she had a day, or fifty years with Tyler, it would be enough.

  Nevada had never felt more sure of anything, more comfortable with giving up control and taking risks. Tyler was right. She couldn’t control her life or his, but she was willing to risk her heart.

  It may have taken her awhile to figure it out, but it finally came to her as the man she loved kissed her deeply and rolled her onto her back.

  “Lesson two,” he said, arching one wicked brow.

  Ah, yes, Much better than a fantasy over the telephone. Real love like this was worth any risk.

  About the author:

  In April 2003, Ellora’s Cave foolishly offered me a contract for my first erotic romance and I haven’t shut up since. My writing is an addiction for which there is no cure, a disease in which strange characters live in my mind, all clamoring for their own story. I try to let them out one by one, as mixing snarling werewolves with a bondage and discipline master can be very dangerous territory. Then again, unusual plotlines offer relief from the demons plaguing me.

  In my world, well-endowed, naked cabana boys do the vacuuming and dishes, little faeries flit about dusting the furniture and doing laundry, Wolfgang Puck fixes my dinner and I spend every night engaged in wild sexual abandon with a hunky alpha. Okay, the hunky alpha part is my real life husband and he keeps my fantasy life enriched with extensive “research”. But Wolfgang won’t answer my calls, the faeries are on strike and my readers keep running off with the cabana boys.

  Jaci welcomes mail from readers. You can w
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