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“I take the cake on that one, Darlin. Today, at least. Just don’t push me away. I’ll play by your rules, but I really hope you’ll want to play by our rules soon.”

“Fair enough,” she whispers, leaning across the car to offer a chaste kiss.

Screw that. I need passion, and I need it now. I grasp both sides of her face, pushing my tongue into the sweet recesses of her mouth. My fingers twist in her dark locks, and a low groan sounds from us both when her hand settles on my cock. “I need inside you.”

She laughs, that husky, ‘I want to rip your clothes off,’ chuckle that is my own personal Viagra. “Thankfully, we’re only a few minutes from the apartment. Think you’ll make it?”

“I don’t know,” I mutter, pulling back onto the highway, bucking my hips when she scratches her nails over my bulge. “You keep doing that, and we won’t make it another ten feet.”

But my tiny vixen doesn’t listen. All Tally hears is a challenge. Get me as hot as she can, while I can’t do anything about it. By the time I pull into her driveway, I’ve damn near busted a nut. But once I shut off the car, she knows.

I’ll torture her with orgasms the rest of the night.

15

Tally

I’m halfway through a patient’s dressing change when Owen pokes his head around the privacy curtain. I meet his gaze expectantly while trying to control my hormones whenever he’s in my space.

I know it was my idea to keep our dating on the down-low. I didn’t say that it wouldn’t suck. It’s awful, but I’m still working through my own demons. My ghosts, as Owen calls them.

I get it. He’snotthat guy, but he also doesn’t know how close I came to losing everything. It doesn’t help that Nicole is not taking the hint, although part of me doubts that Owen has actually tempered her advances. I don’t think he’s messing around with her. But she’s a gorgeous woman, and he’s basking in the adoration.

He is a man, after all.

So, at work, we are colleagues. Outside of work, behind closed doors, we are passion personified. Unfortunately, that passion has been shelved for the last few nights. I’ve been with my father and Owen...well, I’m not entirely sure where he’s been. All I know is that he wasn’t with me.

“Can I help you, Dr. Stevens?” I inquire, pushing a stubborn strand of hair from my face with my forearm. Why is that whenever your hands are unavailable, your face itches? Seriously, what kind of next level hell is that?

“You’re working bedside today, Tally?”

“I do it a few times per month. Keep my hand in.”

“That’s smart,” he remarks, flashing a hint of that dimple beneath his neatly trimmed beard. Have I mentioned how much I adore that dimple?

“I have my moments.” I gaze down at the patient, her eyes widening with worry that I might not be an experienced handler. “Don’t worry, Mrs. Hobbs. I’m the nurse manager for the unit.”

Owen looks past me to the patient. “You’re lucky. Tally is an amazing nurse. She’s an amazing soul.”

My heart catches. “Thank you. I appreciate that.”

“I mean it. Can you come to my office?”

I lift my gloved hands, giving him a shrug. “I’m a little busy at the moment. Can it wait?”

Owen chuckles. “I meant later.”

“Okay.” Our exchange is innocent, but it’s the way he looks at me, the fire burning in those gray depths, that sets my body humming. How in the hell am I supposed to claim we’re just friends when I drool every time I see him?

The good doctor knows the effect he’s having on me, and he’s enjoying every second. Owen leans in, his lips brushing against my ear, his voice low so that only I can hear. “I miss that gorgeous mouth. I need a refill.”

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An hour later, I stroll down the VIP corridor, heading for Owen’s office. No, it’s not the technical name, but with all the big-wig doctors down this hallway, it might as well be.

I wonder how often Dr. Nicole Hedges finds a reason to be in this same hallway, with the same destination.

Bitch had better back off. Just saying. I know it might be a ‘having my cake and eating it too’ scenario, but I’ll break every finger on her pretty hand if she touches Owen again.

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