Page 124 of Hot Cops

Don’t look at the pretty man.

“What would you have said if I’d asked you out for a date?” he asked.

She forced herself to look at him as she told him the truth. “I would have said no.”

“Why?”

“Why?”

Landon started to stand, but she shook her head, waved for him to stay where he was. Right now, the sheet covered him from the waist down. If he stood up, revealed that he was still naked, she’d remember everything they’d done…and how much she wanted to do it again.

He relented, remaining where he was. “Why would you have said no?”

Landon never let her get away with just saying something vague. He always called her on it, expected her to dig deeper, to say more.

She sucked at that.

Why would she have said no?

This time she actually had the answer. Sunnie started throwing up fingers as she ticked off everything on her list, fighting to bring some semblance of reason back to this. “Because we’re complete opposites, a total mismatch. Because we’re at two different places in our lives. I don’t want a relationship. You do. Because you’re practically my freaking brother. You’re Finn’s best friend. And you work for my dad.”

“Is that it?”

She threw her hands up, frustrated and…terrified. “How many more things do I need?”

“Aren’t you missing the big one?”

Sunnie fell silent, uncertain what he meant.

Landon stood up, the sheet falling away as he crossed the room toward her. Her gaze dropped to his erection. Despite her obvious anger toward him, he was hard as a rock.

“No,” she said hastily. “That’s not happening again.”

She lifted her hands, putting them on his chest to hold him back when he got too close.

“Tell me therealreason you’re fighting with me, Sunnie.”

“I told you.”

“None of that is what’s holding you back.”

She hated the assurance in his voice. God, it was almost smug. And why not? He knew her. He knew freaking everything about her. Even so, she longed to knock him down a peg. To prove that in this argument, she was right and he was wrong.

“Okay, Mr. Arrogant. Hit me with it. Tell me why you think I’m mad.”

“You’re afraid of falling in love, Sunnie. And that’sexactlywhat’s happened.”

She snorted, dismissing his assertion, even as she feared he might be right. She swallowed heavily, refusing to give him the point. “Get over yourself, Landon. It was only one night.”

And the most amazing sex on the planet.

He grinned. Stood there in the face of her panic, his dick rock-hard, and gave her the sweetest, most pure Landon grin in his arsenal.

“You’re insane,” she struck out. “This isn’t love. It’s lust.”

“Nope. It’s love.”

“You’re wrong. And I’m not doing this.”

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