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went to his head like some sort of toxic, mind-altering smoke, blurring reality and fuzzing out his will to back off.

    The desire he’d been repressing roared back to the forefront of his consciousness, voracious as a starved wolf and twice as unwilling to be denied. Eva’s stillness, her lifted chin, should’ve indicated submission, or at least acceptance, but instead there was something about her steady regard and curved lips that felt like a challenge.

    Unable or unwilling to ignore it, Danny ditched the last vestiges of his common sense and reached for her with both hands.

    Her mouth under his was soft, yielding, but Danny didn’t miss the flare of triumph in her eyes before she shut them and moaned, giving herself to the kiss. Her body molded effortlessly to his, her heat pressed firmly along the length of him. Those pretty white fingers of hers returned to his arms, this time trailing up, pausing to squeeze his shoulders before clasping at his neck.

    Danny wanted to stop this, he really did, but somehow he couldn’t make his fists unclench from the sweet roundness of her hips. All his focus was on the meeting of their lips, the slick slide of their tongues, the ferocity of his need for her taste.

    She made a sound deep in her throat, rough and unashamed, and immediately pure unadulterated high-octane lust flooded his system. He’d been hard since he’d seen her splayed out against the back wall of the elevator, but when she growled like that, the rush of blood through his body made his cock throb so thickly he was momentarily afraid he’d pass out.

    Heart beating like it did at the top of the tallest roller coaster at Coney Island, Danny finally managed to pry his fingers loose and take a step back, gulping in some much-needed air.

    Eva let him go easily, staring up at him with her mouth flushed and swollen from his kisses, but still, freaking still looking about half a second from a smirk.

    “That was fun,” she said throatily, smoothing her perfectly smooth hair.

    “That was idiotic,” Danny gritted out. His body, high on adrenaline and sex and the slight edge of danger, already ached to be mashed up against Eva’s softness again. “And risky. Eventually, someone in this hotel is going to notice this elevator’s not running.”

    “The risk is part of what makes it fun.” Eva bent to snag her purse from the corner where she’d dropped it before making her big move. Shooting him an arch glance as she located a compact mirror, she said, “Oh, please. I hope you’re not going to try to convince me you didn’t enjoy that.”

    Watching her reapply her lipstick sent a weird pang shooting through his midsection. It was so … intimate.

    Turning away, Danny located the emergency stop button and punched it forcefully, releasing the temporary hold on the elevator, then hit the button for level two.

    Without looking at her, he said, “Yeah, okay. I’m a guy. I enjoyed the hot grope. Sue me.”

    Shit, part of him thought. I hope to God she doesn’t sue me. She can afford way more flesh-eating lawyers than my family can.

    But Eva only laughed again, this time with an edge he couldn’t identify. “I didn’t mean the kiss.”

    I will not ask her what she means, I will not ask her what she means, I will not ask her what she means…

    The elevator stopped at the ninth floor, but whoever had called it must have long ago given up and taken the stairs or something, so Danny jabbed at the button to close the doors and send the car back down to the kitchen.

    Danny kept his gaze on the light flashing through the numbers above the doors, counting down the floors. Just as the 2 button was illuminated and the elevator began to slow, a charged heat along his side warned him that Eva was next to him.

    Her breath brushed his ear, tickled through the strands of hair at his neck, sending a shudder of savage, unquenched desire down his spine.

    But it was her words that gave him the biggest chill.

    “It