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raised one
arm and rested it on the metal bar above her head, effectively trapping her
between himself and the wall.  His eyes glinted in the moonlight as he stared
down at her.
    Erin’s heart
thumped and she swallowed hard.  Goodness.  How was she going to get out of
this predicament in a dignified manner?
    “Kiss me.”
    “Wh…what?”
    “That’s what you
want, isn’t it?  Now’s your chance.” 
    “I don’t know what
you’re talking about.”  She glared up at him, shocked by his audacity. 
    “You threw
yourself at me twice in one day.  I have to reward all that effort.  Now kiss
me.”  Dare’s tone was commanding.  He put a finger under her chin and tilted
her face toward his.
    Erin’s heart
pounded.  He was going to kiss her.  And she wanted it, dear God she wanted it. 
But she’d always been “the good girl”.  Did she dare?
    She did.  When his
lips touched hers she did not stop him.  She did not pull away.  Erin closed her
eyes tight and clung to his muscled arms.  His lips were hard, unyielding.  His
arm snaked around her and he pulled her tight against his body, so close that
she could feel the rippling muscles of his torso against her breasts.
    She kept her eyes
closed, not daring to look into those enigmatic gray eyes, not wanting to read
what lay in their depths. 
    Then all coherent
thought flew from her mind as Dare softened his kiss, his lips moving sensually
over hers, stealing her breath away.  Erin leaned into him, her nipples as hard
as pebbles, and then she was kissing him back, answering his passion with a
fervor that was alien to her.  She moaned under the caress of his lips. 
    Erin trembled in
Dare’s arms.  Her body was responding to him like she’d done with no man
before.  And as she stood there wrapped in his arms Erin knew she was in deep
trouble.
               

 
     
    CHAPTER THREE
     
    Slowly, Dare
lifted his head and stared down into the dazed eyes of the girl in his arms. 
What was she doing to him?  He’d meant to dominate her, knock her off balance
with his kiss.  After all, she’d been pursuing him all day.  It was time to
take her up on what on what she was offering, maybe even teach her a lesson in
the process.
    But, to his
chagrin, it was he who was caught off guard.  The kiss had left him
breathless.  Damn, was he getting soft?
    He released her
and put her away from him.  Only then did he speak.  “I want to see you again. 
Let’s have dinner tomorrow.”
    Her eyes widened
in apparent shock.  “Dinner?  But…I don’t know you.”
    Dare almost
laughed out loud.  What kind of game was she playing?  Did she take him for a
fool?  Why else would she have been coming on to him, twice in one day, if she
didn’t know who he was?  He would have respected her more if she’d just been
honest.
    “Listen, I know
enough about you to know that I want to see you again.”
    “But…”
    “No buts.  Do you
want to see me again?”  He knew he was bullying the girl but that was the whole
idea.  She’d decided to play with fire so it was no fault of his if she got
burned.
    “Yes.”  Her voice
was a mere whisper, her eyes huge pools of iridescent hazel.  On her face was a
look of uncertainty tinged with just a hint of anticipation.
    Dare chuckled
inwardly.  The girl was playing temptress but she had a lot to learn.  First
lesson - don’t make your feelings so obvious.  With an expressive face like
hers she was going to have a hard task succeeding in her chosen role as
seductress.
    “It’s settled
then.  We’ll have dinner tomorrow at Michelangelo’s.  They have a private
lounge where we can eat and talk undisturbed.  Seven o’clock.  Meet me there.”
    She opened her
mouth then, those soft lips still swollen from his kiss, but he cut her off
before she even had a chance to utter the first word.  There was no way he was
giving her a chance to back out.  He’d had a taste of her lips and, deceiver
though