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The taste of her, the smell, everything about her had me as lost in her as she was in me. The fingertips of her hands skimmed my neck, touched, and ran through my hair over and over.

As the song played, I whispered some of the lyrics to her as my hands traveled up and down the skin of her back, left bare from the dress she wore. There was just the two of us, nothing around us mattered. I wanted every word in the song to be about us. And I most certainly had no intention of leaving without her on me as the song says.

“Come home with me, Mac.I want your naked body wrapped around me. I want to feel us skin against skin. I want to taste every inch of you, feel the heat as I enter you and take us both up and over the edge. Then I want to do it all again.”

“Oh God, Emery.”

“Say yes, Mac. Let me take you and bring you to orgasm until you’re gasping for breath and hoarse from screaming my name.”

I kissed down her neck, across her collarbone while my hands traveled to her waist and up until my thumbs touched and caressed the outer curve of her breasts. I nibbled her chin as I made my way to her mouth, sucked her bottom lip between my teeth and bit down gently, only to slide my tongue across to take away the sting.

“Emery, please—” Mackenzie stopped talking when a chime came from a phone.

“Don’t answer it,” I said and captured her lips. When my tongue pushed through, she groaned, and as quick as the kiss started, it ended.

Mac leaned away just enough to shove her hand into the ‘V’ of her dress. When she brought her hand out, it held a ringing cellphone. She looked at the screen, and after a swipe of her thumb, she moved the phone to her ear.

“Dr. Minton,” Mac answered as I released her from my arms and maneuvered us out of the crowd. Our moment broken.

A man’s voice could be heard, but I couldn’t make out what he said. I stopped us at the far end of the clubhouse away from the speakers that were blasting the music.

“That’s great, Neal. Yes, there’s no need to panic, you got this. Sarah will be fine. Just keep thinking that when it’s over, you will get to hold your son. I’ll meet you at the hospital, Dad. And don’t forget to put mom in the car.” Mac chuckled and smiled at whatever the man said, then disconnected the call. “I’ve got to go.”

“I heard.”

“I’m sorry. I... I—”

“Why, because you have to do your job?”

“No, I... I’m not sure I can do this.” She waved her hand between us. “And crap, I don’t have time to discuss it right now. I need to leave.”

“You’ve been running, and I don’t understand why, but it stops. I want you, Mac, and I intend to have you. But I can wait a little longer.”

“I don’t know how long it will take. Sarah is a first time—”

“Mac!” I raised my voice to cut her off before she spiraled out of control, thinking about the possibility of us when she had a job to do.

“What?”

“Go deliver the baby. You and I will finish what we started sooner rather than later.” When Mac opened her mouth to speak, I held up my hand. “I can stand here and watch you while you walk to your car and leave. Or I can walk you to your car, bend you over the hood, hike that little dress up, and—”

“I’m going,” was the only thing Mac said as she turned and walked briskly toward her car.

I grinned and stood at the edge of the clubhouse until I lost sight of her taillights. Instead of going back to the party, I headed toward my place. I’d give her a couple of hours, then I would head to the hospital and wait for her. No matter how long the delivery took.

The feeling of contentment was with me as I stepped into my house. As I closed the door, my phone rang, and I pulled it out of my pocket and glanced at the screen. I answered the call with the swipe of my thumb, but unlike Mac’s call, I knew mine wasn’t going to make me happy.

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