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her, but just as he was about to give in to his baser desires, just as he had only hours ago, he suddenly heard her voice in his head, as clearly as if she were speaking aloud.
    I love you, Luke.
    If she hadn't said those words to him, if he could have pretended she was no different than any other woman he'd been with...
    Fuck.
    She wasn't just anyone. She was his best friend's little sister. She was his sister-in-law.
    And she thought she was in love with him.
    What had he done?
    * * *
    Janica felt Luke shift beside her as he worked to slide his arm out from beneath her frame.
    Her heart started pounding. Hard.
    In the real world where things made sense and she stayed on one side of the playground while Luke stayed on the other, she knew he was right to leave. That whatever had happened between them was al wrong.
    But, God, it had felt so right.
    Better than right.
    Perfect.
    And in the dark, in the aftermath of those moments when he'd cal ed her sweetheart and looked into her eyes as if he real y and truly cared about her, al she knew was that she would die inside if he left.
    “Stay.”
    He stil ed, like a thief caught in the act. And maybe he was a thief, she thought. Because somehow, when she wasn't looking, he'd snuck in and stolen her heart.
    Damn him.
    Seductively, instinctively, she rubbed herself against him so that his rock-hard shaft slid between her already slick labia, the soft curve of her butt cheeks. Reaching around for one of his hands, she placed it over one of her breasts.
    Her nipple beaded against his large hand and she could feel him pulsing against the flesh between her thighs, stil tender from his wonderful y rough lovemaking.
    A few more seconds and, oh please, his incredible cock would be sliding back into her pussy and she could experience pure ecstasy for a second time. Only, the next thing she knew she was alone in her bed. And the worst part of it was that he didn't say anything. He simply pul ed away from her and walked naked out of her bedroom.
    Stunned, she lay there for a moment, cold without his arms around her, empty without his thick heat driving into her.
    Fortunately, anger came fast on the heels of her shock. Jumping off the bed, she rushed into her living room to see that Luke was almost ful y dressed already.
    “You're leaving.”
    His face was an impenetrable mask. “Yes.”
    So that was the way it was going to be?
    Fine. She didn't want any apologies from him. And she definitely didn't want his thanks for a kil er fuck. He hadn't taken anything from her that she hadn't wanted to give.
    Except, a smal voice in her head whispered, quite possibly, her heart.
    Sixty seconds later, he was gone.
    * * *
    Luke went home, showered, then headed straight back to the hospital.
    One of his col eagues had to need a break, had to have a shift he could fil . As long as he stayed busy he could keep himself from going there, back to Janica's apartment, back to the moment when she'd glared at him and said, You're leaving.
    What she'd real y meant was, Fuck you. Even after his shower, he swore he could scent her, as if her beautiful essence had slipped past his skin, al the way into his cel s. His cock thickened beneath his scrubs and he worked like hel to douse his growing hard-on, which was completely inappropriate for a doctor to be sporting. But he had to work even harder to crush that twinge in his gut that told him he'd been a complete asshole.
    And that she'd deserved a hel of a lot better of a goodbye than he'd given her.
    Especial y since he hadn't said goodbye at al . He'd just left like a fucking coward.
    Trying to focus his vision on the staffing board, he was about to cal Bonnie to tel her not to bother coming in, when Eileen Jones, the hospital’s head psychiatrist said, “Good morning, Luke. You're just the person I wanted to see. Would you mind coming into my office for a quick chat?”
    He was barely in her door when she hit him with,
    “You’re too tired. You need to take some