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asked, my fascinated eyes
watching as he rolled his neck slowly to face me again, wearing a
faintly teasing smile on his lips.
    “Why not? It’s not me. You know it’s not. I
honestly don’t know what came over me when I saw you that night,”
he said, watching me stare at his mouth. I couldn’t help it. I
could smell the bourbon on him and the buzz in my head made me want
to taste it too. I glanced up to see his jaw tightening as he
swallowed. “All I know is I should’ve stopped myself from going
into that restaurant because once I saw you, Nina, right away I
felt myself thinking things I shouldn’t. And that was before I
overheard your friend’s stories.”
    “What happened after you heard them?”
    Daniel’s smile was slightly crooked and
insanely sexy. “You know what.”
    Yup. Thanks, Mike . I grinned, tilting
my head at him as my hands slid out from behind me. They wanted
desperately to touch Daniel and bring him closer but they didn’t
dare to just yet. “So we’re even, then,” I said, gathering my hair
over one shoulder, thrilling in Daniel’s dipping gaze as I arched
my back to do so. “You know a few of my dirty secrets and I know a
few of yours.” Geez . I wasn’t a flirt by nature but perhaps
I’d consumed Linh’s essence along with the shots she handed me.
    Daniel shook his head at me and grinned.
“That’s not fair, that’s two entirely different levels of
embarrassment. My secrets are about you. Yours are about other
people.”
    “I have some about you, too,” I offered. Christ, Nina . My drunkenness was quite the double-edged
sword. With my lower lip bit back, I peered up at Daniel, whose
blue eyes danced as they gazed down at me.
    “Huh. I guess that balances it out then,” he
said, his tone flirtatious in a way that made my heart pound so
hard it felt like each beat was lifting me off the wall. “Though
you’d have to reveal your secrets for us to be actually even.”
    A wary hum escaped my lips. “Mm, yeah,
that’s not gonna happen,” I laughed quietly, looking down at my
hands as they twirled the hem of my top. My secrets weren’t so much
secrets as fantasies, but they were all sexual and about him. And
most of them had been dreamed up while sitting in his classroom
during a lesson.
    My face grew hot as I ruefully recalled them
and reminded myself that the object of those fantasies was standing
before me, knowingly watching me as my cheeks flushed, my lower lip
disappearing between my teeth as I recalled one of the steamy
scenarios I’d created for us my senior year. It had been in his
classroom and though they were against our school dress code, I was
wearing a short skirt.
    In my feverishness, his voice sounded far
away.
    “Really not gonna tell me then, huh?” He
chuckled something low and sexy. “Yeah…” His eyes fixed on my lips
as I nodded. “That’s probably for the better.”
    I looked up at him, inquisitive until I saw
the look in his eye. It was hungry but resistant and entirely
tortured. He swallowed hard when my gaze met his and only then did
I realize that I’d played too hard with the hem of my shirt and
tugged it down enough to bare a peek of lacy bra. Daniel’s eyes
bore into mine in a seeming attempt to keep from looking
downward.
    “Nina, you’re killing me right now,” he
exhaled, laughing lightly at himself as he forced his eyes
elsewhere while I fixed my neckline.
    As I did, I watched as his sleepy gaze shift
around the room, seeming to awaken at the sight of others, like
he’d forgotten for the past ten minutes that anyone else was
around. That anyone else existed. He blinked and straightened his
posture, as if suddenly remembering to be good in case these people
might somehow know others from Woodhill. My eyes darted about his
face as I felt him coming back to Earth though I wasn’t ready to
just yet.
    “Daniel.”
    Without a thought, my fingers grabbed tight
handfuls of his shirt. Immediately, his focus returned and upon
catching