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back ol' Johnny's excitement.
     
    Her hand moved inside his pocket. "Hmm, yes you can."
     
    Jake caught her wrist and summoned more control than he thought humanly possible, then eased her from his pocket. "Patience," he murmured more for himself than for her. "Good things come to those who wait."
     
    "How long are you willing to wait?" Her voice was airy, breathless.
     
    "Sweetheart, if I can make it through this minute and into the next… ah, damn but you're evil."
     
    Her tongue was doing wicked things to his neck at the base of his ear. "How long?"
     
    "I'll wait, ah… until my dying breath if necessary. But," he introduced the lower half of her body to ol' Johnny, "I'll pray it won't take that long."
     
    "Oh," she gasped. "Jake?" Emily arched her back and her eyes darkened while her hand gripped the back of his neck.
     
    "Yes?"
     
    "You have two choices at this point and ohhh … time."
     
    "What are my choices, sweet Emily?"
     
    Her fingers massaged his neck as her hips twitched against him. "Ask me to dance or… kiss me and make me do it again." She shivered.
     
    Realization, then satisfaction strummed through him. "You're a little high strung tonight, aren't you?"
     
    "It's your fault."
     
    Jake laughed and, damn, it pained him. "My fault?"
     
    A delicious grin curved her lips. "You turned me on then left me to search for the off button all by myself. I haven't found it yet."
     
    "Is that so?" He grinned.
     
    Emily cocked her head to the side that arched the smooth column of her throat. "Yeah, that's so. What are you going to do about it?" A finger trailed suggestively down his shirt.
     
    Then it hit him. Emily was intent on seducing him. She wasn't teasing him. She was torturing him. He liked the torture, but that wasn't the point.
     
    The point was that Jake was not into one night stands and fly-by-night flings, no matter how tempting the partner. He'd spent too much time planning and plotting for this moment to let her have all the goods without half the work. Emily was the first woman in a long time who'd stirred these sort of feelings in him and he'd be damned if he'd let her ruin it by sleeping with him on the first date.
     
    Jake wanted to savor his first bout of sober dating.
     
    "Pay back is hell, sweetheart." He took her by the hand and tugged her into the next room where the music and a dance floor waited for them.
     
    She laughed and hurried to keep up with him. "Oh, Jake, you are evil."
     
    The band—a local group who dabbled in the swing time horn sound—started up a fast paced, toe tapping, big band tune and Jake hauled Emily into his arms.
     
    He pressed one hand to the small of her back and took her hand in his. "You and I, sweet Emily, are going to take things slow. Real slow. And," he moved them to the music, "you can just forget about ever finding the off button."
     
    "Oh really?"
     
    Jake dipped her. "Yes, ma'am. 'Cause as long as you're with me, you're not gonna need it." He pulled her back to her feet, then—to the amazement of the small crowd gathering on the fringe of the dance floor—proceeded to dance her fool shoes off.
     
    No ma'am, she would not need the off button. Jake had plans for sweet Emily. Plans that most definitely did not include wham-bam-thank-you-sirs.
     

CHAPTER FOUR
     
    Lee closed her eyes and tasted wave after wave of intoxicating pleasure. A moan rumbled forth from deep in her throat. "More."
     
    Jake chuckled. "Greedy. Open wide, sweetheart. Wider. That's a good girl. Mmm, take it all now," he murmured.
     
    Vanilla ice cream hit her tongue and her taste buds froze, then died of sheer bliss. "Mmm. Again."
     
    "Let her taste it with the strawberry," Nick suggested eagerly.
     
    Lee opened her eyes and gave a dreamy smile. "Nicholas, your ice cream is sinful. I'm going to have to spend an extra hour at the gym because of you."
     
    Nick beamed. "Wait until you try it with the strawberry. The natural sweetness of the berry will