Page 25 of Fire and Ice

Switching back to Jack, Maia said softly, "Are you spying on me, Jack McCord?"

"Of course not. I have cameras in the control room, but I have the volume turned off."

"Do you have cameras in my bedroom?"

Jack chuckled.

"Well?" Maia demanded her voice rising.

"Look, the whole house has cameras but I am no voyeur. I prefer ...er... the real thing. I wanted to talk to you so I checked the public areas of the house: the kitchen, the living room and the control room," Jack said, then added suggestively. "Of course, if you walk around the house naked, I could hardly be to blame."

"What do you want to talk to me about?" Maia asked.

"Did you like your presents?" Jack asked in a low husky voice.

"And you couldn't wait until tomorrow to ask me?" Maia was peeved. First, he had been busy all day, letting her stew in her irritation about the clothes and now he thought he could talk to her any time he wanted to? She was not one of his employees.

"No, because I want you to wear that black bustier and lace panties when I get home," Jack whispered. Maia felt heat shoot straight to her sex. "I picked that out myself, you know."

"You did not. You were busy all day."

"The boutique was at the ground floor of our building. Ever since I've met you, I've been imagining you wearing it ..."

"Jack ...."

"Fuck, I'm getting hard just thinking about it," Jack muttered.

"Jack ..."

"I'm not fucking around, Maia. I want you. I want to be inside you, I want to taste you... everywhere."

Maia caught her breath. Was she about to spontaneously combust?

"Babe, did you hear me?"

"I did like the presents," Maia replied to his first question not ready to acknowledge his blunt proposal. "Laurie did well."

"Coward ..." Jack said with a hint of teasing.

It was inevitable, her attraction to Jack was nuclear, so she decided to take the grown-up lead. Might as well get down to the specifics. "Have you been checked?"

"Yes. About two weeks ago. I'm clean," Jack replied quickly. "Are you..."

"I'm clean and I'm on birth-control," Maia answered.

Jack laughed softly and in a husky voice that made her shiver all over again. "Babe, if I were there right now, I'd be fucking you."

"Can you not be crude?"

"You like me talking dirty to you."

"I do not."

"Liar."

Maia rolled her eyes.

"I can see you, you know," Jack said.

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