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Authors: Tanya Michaels
Good with His Hands (22 page)
“Well, sure. I guess. I mean, I look at you and I can see that you're an attractive man, but that doesn't mean we'd be compatible.”
Hunter thought she was missing the point. It was more than that. Way more. But he didn't mind hearing that she found him attractive. “I'm not just talking about physical attraction.”
“Are you saying you don't find me physically attractive?” Melanie bundled up all her tissue scraps and tossed them in her purse with more force than was necessary.
Minefields. Everywhere he walked with women. “That is not what I was saying. At all. Yes, I find you physically attractive.” Which was an understatement. She actually came pretty close to his image of the ideal woman with her blond hair, her juicy mouth, her perky breasts and narrow waist. She made him want to protect her from harm, and at the same time he wanted to push her up against a wall and make her scream with pleasure. But telling her that would be completely unprofessional. He was still on a job. “You're a beautiful woman.”
“I don't feel beautiful. I feel foolish. And a little airsick.”
Yikes. That was all they needed. “Here. Lie down and close your eyes.” He patted his legs, indicating that she should stretch out.
“You don't mind?”
He minded a lot of things, but despite his desperate desire to stay remote with his client, he didn't want her getting sick. Plus that indescribable “it” he had mentioned to her? He felt it. That tug of chemistry, of desire, in both his groin and his chest. He was attracted to her, yes, but he also felt...interest.
Not good. Not good at all.
Which made offering for her to sprawl across his lap incredibly stupid. When she did, her body felt warm and soft on his hard thighs. She glanced up at him with big brown eyes. “You're very hard.”
“Excuse me?” He wasn't there yet, but if she kept shifting around like that, he would be, and she'd get an earful.
“Your legs. They're very muscular. Not the best pillow.”
Right.
She smiled up at him. “But thank you. I appreciate it.” Squeezing his knee, she added, “You're sweet.”
Hunter grunted in response. She closed her eyes.
And his job, among other things down south, got a whole hell of a lot harder than he could have ever predicted.
Copyright © 2015 by Erin McCarthy
ISBN: 978-1-474-02939-1
GOOD WITH HIS HANDS
© 2015 Tanya Michaels
Published in Great Britain 2015
by Mills & Boon, an imprint of Harlequin (UK) Limited
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