speculative challenge as he answered, "Wh

tomorrow." j

'm gone." h

ollins Templeton. Not that she had had time to even th

" she countered, pride insisting that his schedule did not affect her expect

mered back at her. "I

her into being uncharacteristically provocative. "You win some.

can't cut and run because your sister is

hten the effect of a char

m trapped?" J

Why did you

vour. It's he

g nature. That's a tra

ving only g

ou take, given

ig question

t intend to a

ld spoil

joying the flirtation he'd fired up and

vour and Leonard. They're wa

ollins with an air of smug satisfaction-the successful matchmakers congratulating themselve

eside the man who had every nerve in her body agitated, her

it had the perverse effect of inciting a sense of wild recklessness-a desire to take what she co

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n her lips, consciously testing the flavour on her tongue. Collins found the action so sensual, his whole body was tightening up. Jasmine L

length of the restaurant and he'd taken refuge in the view several times tonight, needing to cool the desire that ke

nigh

Los Angeles. It was the wrong time to meet a woman like Jasmine. She appealed to him on too many levels. He liked the way her mind worked, lik

ng about her life, keeping their dinner conversation to verygeneral topics.

she said... win some, lose some? He'd never li

important than losing out on a night of sex wh

ite, hanging in the sky where he had turned his gaze, but he hadn't been looking at it. Jasmine

word, lunatic didn't

ated with madness. And rom

lins observed dryly, looking back at Jasmine, hopi

t the pull of her attra

r. "...how connected are we to the physical world? We get irritated when it's windy. Sunshine tends Co make us s

m? Favour An excuse for it? Something outside herself so

ings we have," said speculatively.

relishing that idea and proceeding to banter with Fav

inserted after a while. "Why d

looking at him with her head on a tilt as though men

the mating game," he

on in her eyes, though rot before he glimpsed

in a one-night stand? It wasn't as though she was an inexperienced woman. Late twenties, he guessed,