“Lindsey, wait up!”

She glanced over the hood of her automobile, seeing Mike strolling towards her throughout the car parking zone. Rattling. A lot for a clear getaway. What was he considering, following her like this? He needed to have seen how a lot consideration they’d been drawing inside.

“What can I do for you, Chief?”

“We didn’t end our dialog.”

“Sure, we did.”

“I used to be about to give you a home-cooked meal.”

“And I used to be about to say no,” she insisted, nonetheless digging for the elusive keys. In truth, she dug so forcefully, the shoulder strap of her laptop computer case slipped, and she or he dropped the entire thing onto the bottom.

“Rattling it,” she stated, nervous and irritated, questioning why the person flustered her so. She simply prayed the bag’s padding had prevented any harm to the gear inside.

“Relax,” he ordered, reaching her automobile as she bent to seize her bag. “We’re not being watched by the key police.”

She scanned the realm, frowning. “We’re, nonetheless, being watched by the youngsters over there on the basketball court docket, the outdated man strolling his canine throughout the road and the lady pushing the child stroller on the intersection.”

He turned his head to look, clearly realizing she was not exaggerating. Even from a number of ft away, she famous that his jaw flexed as he clenched it. His broad shoulders additionally stiffened, his physique radiating frustration.

“We’ve each already realized that if we speak to one another we’re going to attract consideration, and neither of us needs that,” she stated. “So I ought to simply get out of right here.”

“Christ,” he muttered. “Why can’t individuals thoughts their very own enterprise? That is worse than my household.”

“We’re each newcomers, and we’re each in positions that the general public feels they’ve a proper to touch upon,” she stated, blowing out her personal annoyed breath. “You don’t need them to say that their new chief is distracted by a fairly face.”

That had come out incorrect, made her sound cocky, and she or he hadn’t deliberately been attempting to pay herself a praise. However he was sensible sufficient to determine what she’d been attempting to say. “I additionally don’t need them to imagine their children’ new instructor is a… What did you name me? A intercourse addict?”

He winced. “I apologized for that, didn’t I?”

“Sure. At any charge, I have to go house, and you want to keep right here. Plus, we each agreed we weren’t on the lookout for any romantic entanglements.”

“I’m not speaking about tangling you.”

A twinkle in his eye stated he’d thought-about saying one thing else. Possibly one thing about doing greater than tangling, like, say, tying. Or handcuffing.

Good lord, she’d by no means in one million years thought that fantasy would attraction to her. One thing about Mike, although, realizing how sturdy but protecting he was, how respectable, made her surprise about it. Made her, in reality, a little bit melty-limbed.

She stiffened these limbs, and her resolve. “We each stated…”

“I bear in mind what I stated. However perhaps I’m getting a little bit uninterested in worrying about what different individuals will suppose. I shouldn’t must test over my shoulder each time I’ve a dialog.”

“I can definitely perceive that,” she stated. She’d solely been right here per week and she or he already felt stifled. She couldn’t think about how unhealthy it was for him.

“If I’m going to make a life right here, I would like to start out dwelling it on my phrases.”

A life right here. He’d gave the impression to be on the fence earlier than, however now he seemed like he actually supposed to remain on Wild Boar. For somebody like Mike—with an enormous household, born and bred in Chicago—it was a fairly dramatic resolution. His outdated job should have actually been harmful for this to be the longer term he selected.

“So what do you say?”

“What modified from final week whenever you weren’t ?”

“Oh, honey, I used to be the second I set eyes on you on that ferry,” he assured her, the heat in his voice matching the heat in his eyes.

She crossed her arms and hugged herself, decided to not let that admission decrease her guard.

“The reality is, I’ve been excited about the form of lady I is likely to be on the lookout for. Not only for intercourse, however for greater than that, and each minute I’ve spent with you has made me need you that rather more.”

He wasn’t simply speaking a couple of fling? He needed to pursue one thing extra critical along with her? The conclusion left her reeling.

“I at all times appeared to finish up with the incorrect kind in Chicago, however perhaps the best kind is likely to be proper in entrance of my face.”

“What kind may that be?” she requested, regardless of herself. What was Mike actually on the lookout for?

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