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Оглавление“Are you free?”
Free? But it had been a one-night stand. Hadn’t it? “For what purpose?”
“You want specifics?”
“Sure. Why not?”
When his voice slid through the phone, deep and slow, the vibrations sent tingles all over her skin.
“I was imagining we’d...” He paused. Long enough that she held her breath. “Eat. And later, much later, once I’ve loosened my tie, and you’ve kicked your shoes off under the table, and we’re both nicely pickled on some excellent wine, together we would do...dessert.”
Somehow she managed to keep her voice from cracking when she said, “So you’re asking me on a date.”
Laughter rolled through the phone. “I’m asking you to eat dinner with me, but if you’d prefer to call it that—”
“Nooo!” Not a date!
“No?” he repeated after several long beats.
Caitlyn bit her lip. Dax was a man she’d taken home from a bar. For sex. Not as some kind of Hail Mary that might lead to something more. Her strident rejection of the word date had given her an accidental out, if that’s what she wanted.
Was it what she wanted?
