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She should have just gone to bed with at least one of those men. But something always held her back. Remembering how it had been with Levi held her back, damn it.
“Well, if it’s a simple date you want, I know someone who’d be perfect,” Siobhan said.
“Who?”
“Nathan Kershaw. Do you know him? Oh, wait. Of course you do. He’s one of the pilots.”
“Yes, I know Nathan. And no, I haven’t dated him.”
“Has he asked you?”
“Yes. But he’s got a reputation as a player. He never dates anyone more than a few times before he moves on.”
“Isn’t that exactly what you do?” Rosario asked.
“Not exactly. I don’t sleep with them and I’m pretty sure Nathan does.”
“From what I hear, that’s true,” Siobhan said. “But he’s still friendly with the women he’s dated, which says something about him.”
“Maybe Nathan is just what you need to take your mind off Levi,” Rosario said. “Or you could just quit resisting Levi and give in to what you want to do.”
Do what she wanted to do. And if she did—if they did—enjoy it while it lasted? Or end up wanting more when they both knew it wouldn’t work?
Chapter Five
This is not going to work. Almost three weeks ago Dana agreed to remodel Levi’s house. A few days later he, Harlan and Dana met to look at and okay the preliminary plans and less than a week after that Dana had a 3-D representation of the remodeling plans. Since then, Levi had seen Dana every day—every single day for the past ten days and he was going crazy. Ten days of seeing her daily. She came over first thing in the morning, consulted with the construction crew and left to do other things. But she’d come back every afternoon to make sure everything was going as planned. Ten straight days of seeing her. Ten straight days of hearing her voice. The voice that reminded him of sinful pleasure.
God knows she didn’t say anything provocative. No, she talked business. Fixtures, faucets, cabinets. The myriad details that went into converting regular, and old, rooms into accessible ones. But whenever he heard her voice his mind automatically switched to hearing how she sounded in bed. Her voice husky, sultry, damned seductive. For God’s sake, she’d been talking about toilets earlier. Toilets. Now how was that for a topic to turn you on?
It’s not what she’s talking about. It’s the fact that you’re hearing her talk every freaking day. The fact that you’re looking and not touching.
Worse, he couldn’t tell if being around each other so much was getting to her like it was him. He thought it might be. He’d caught her a few times looking at him with her mind obviously wandering. And once he could have sworn she’d been checking out his butt. Wishful thinking, asshole. Dana was doing just fine.
Besides, he needed her professional help. The most important thing was to get the house ready for Asher. He couldn’t lose track of the prime objective.
And yet, he couldn’t believe it was hopeless. That day when he’d asked her if she remembered the two of them together. “Of course I do,” she’d said. That admission meant something. It meant she hadn’t forgotten being with him.
But it didn’t necessarily mean she wanted a repeat performance.
“Levi? Did you hear me?”
“Sorry. I was thinking of something else.” You. You and me together in your bed. “What did you ask me?”
“I was showing you options for grab bars. But you must have been a thousand miles away.”
“Not quite.” Just eight months back in time. “Look, Dana, I know nothing about grab bars. Why don’t you pick what you think is best and if Asher doesn’t like them we’ll change them out?”
“All right.” She hesitated before saying, “Would you rather I not ask you about the more minor details? I know this is hard for you, thinking about Asher’s disabilities.”
“No. I mean, yes, I worry about Asher. But I don’t want you to stop asking me things.” He put his hand on her arm. Her skin was supple, warm, inviting him to rub his thumb along the soft underside. He looked into her eyes and saw an answering heat.
“I…won’t.”
They leaned toward each other, drawn by invisible ties.
“Levi, we need you in here,” Rocky, the crew foreman said, gesturing to the bedroom. “Electrician’s here.”
Dana and he jumped as if bitten and Levi dropped his hand. Damn, couldn’t Rocky have waited for five more minutes?
