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make any difference if I care. People will think what they want to think.”
    That was probably the attitude that helped her remain a criminal without remorse.
    For a moment Alex came to his senses and felt the urge to stop this speeding train while he still had the chance. But he glanced over at Yasmine, her face lit by the glow of the hotel lights, and the doubt disappeared. He’d wanted her for years, now he could get rid of all that wanting.
    Yasmine had exposed to him his biggest weakness, and it was her.

4
    Y ASMINE HAD SPENT way too many years controlling her rebellious impulses. But she’d learned her lesson as a teenager—rebellion can have consequences. Severe consequences.
    She followed Kyle up the stairs to his apartment and tried to ignore the whirl of excitement growing in her belly. What she should do was eat some Kung Pao Chicken, kiss Kyle good-night, and go home. Forget this whole crazy sex idea. She knew better by now than to follow her wild impulses, because they’d only ever led her into serious trouble.
    Hacking had started out as simply an interesting challenge. She’d been a typical teenager—bored, angry and sick of her parents—only, with a gift for invading computer systems. Then hacking had grown into an act of defiance when she’d realized how much power she wielded on the Internet, and how much it would piss off her oblivious parents if they found out what she’d been up to.
    Of course, they found out right before the whole world did, and they’d been furious. For once, she’d had their undivided attention.
    Teen Girl Hacks Government Computers had beenone of the many headlines splashed across newspapers. Her parents had thought granting the press permission to use her photo would teach her a lesson, but all the exposure had really accomplished was to create a weird cult of celebrity around her and the case.
    In the months before her trial, she’d had to close her e-mail account because of all the whacked messages she’d received from guys who thought she was the hottest thing since Internet porn.
    The two-year period of her prosecution and imprisonment was the worst of her life. She’d prided herself on learning a lesson from the ordeal, and she’d vowed not to cross paths with the law again.
    But some little part of her, some barely controllable impulse, ached to go wild again. She didn’t have to break the law. In fact, she saw now that maybe she’d gone a little too far in the opposite direction, trading in an interesting life for the confines of a law-abiding one.
    She’d become too good at avoiding trouble.
    She could back out now, while Kyle was unlocking his front door.
    And then what?
    She’d spend the rest of her life—or at least the rest of the long, lonely weekend—regretting her caution. This was a night that begged for action.
    Kyle would be her Christmas gift to herself. She’d been working hard to stay under control, depriving herself, and now she deserved a night of wild, guilt-free sex.
    Didn’t she? She could even call it career development, since she’d gotten so far out of touch with her sensual that she’d started feeling like a fraud in the sex software business.
    He stepped aside so she could enter the apartment, and once they were both in, he switched on a lamp.
    “Are you sure about this?” she asked halfheartedly, her self-control in its death throes.
    “You want to stop?” he asked, taking a step closer to her and brushing a strand of hair away from her cheek.
    “Hell, no.”
    She ached, she burned, she nearly hummed with the anticipation of finally getting Kyle up against her, inside her, all over her for a night.
    Yasmine shrugged off her velvet dress coat and let it fall to the floor, as Kyle dropped their Chinese takeout on a nearby table and turned to her. He removed his tie, then his vest, letting both fall near their feet.
    He pulled her to him and gave her what was possibly the hottest kiss she’d ever had. His tongue danced with