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stared at each other. She felt the warmth rise in her face and her bag drop to the floor, followed by her towel.
    He looked down at her. She could feel the heat rise up her chest even as her nipples tightened in excitement. He noticed, too, and grinned wickedly before leaning down to kiss her gently on her mouth. Luckily he still gripped her upper arms or she would have wound herself around him like a limpet. As it was, he pulled her close enough that should could feel that sexy chest hair rubbing against her nipples, further stimulating them, and she could feel his arousal pressing against her as he released her arms and pulled her closer, running his hands down her back, stopping at her buttocks, gripping them and pulling her close to him, grinding her against his erection. She kissed him back with passion. Who knew where it would go? It was crazy, but she couldn’t help herself.
    She was saved by the bell, or rather the knock.
    “Fifteen-minute warning, sis. Mom will not tolerate lateness.”
    They slowly moved apart. Both were breathing heavily. Nelly grabbed her towel and wrapped it around her as she moved away. She could see Jack grin as he went into the bathroom and closed the door.
    Oh crap. She should have realized that her mother would put them in the same room. The house was packed to the rafters, and she had kind of oversold her relationship with John in order to get her mom to back off. And her mother didn’t know that Jack and John were not the same person. And her damned weak will. She’d been attracted to him since they met, but she couldn’t cloud the situation with sex.
    She heard the sound of the shower in the bathroom. Double crap. She had better dress quickly. She didn’t want to be naked when he came out. She threw on a bra and underwear. She had her pants on and was just picking up a short-sleeved sweater when he came out of the bathroom wrapped in a towel. My, my. He really was magnificent looking. He was smiling approvingly at her, and she realized she was standing there in her bra. Quickly she donned her top and grabbed her purse.
    “I’ll see you downstairs in the dining room.”
    She hurried out of the room to the sound of his laughter. It was going to be a long evening.
    But it turned out to be a fun evening. It was only the night before Thanksgiving, so her mom did a buffet. The family scattered, with some down in the family room with the kids and some in the den watching some football and yet others in the living room talking cars. And, of course, Jack was stuck with her brothers and dad as they picked his brains about rebuilding the Cobra.
    She sighed. Maybe that was for the best.
    “Maybe you should go rescue him.” Nelly jumped at the unexpected sound of her sister-in-law’s voice in her ear.
    Nelly dragged her eyes off Jack and looked at Shawn, shaking her head. “No. I think he’s safer with Dad and the boys talking cars than getting grilled by Mom.”
    Shawn looked at Nelly, who blushed. “There’s something up with you two. I don’t know what it is. I see how you look at each other and there’s heat. But you don’t seem like you’ve been together for months.”
    Shawn was far too perceptive. Nelly mumbled something and fled to another room. She ended up playing video games with the kids for a couple of hours. At ten, their parents rounded them up and put them to bed. She followed them up and headed to bed herself. She figured that he wouldn’t agree to sleep in the tub, and she couldn’t send him downstairs to sleep on the couch. The bed was big. She picked up a couple of the decorative pillows and lined them up the centre of the bed. Then she quickly stripped off what she was wearing and put on a tank top and sweatpants. Then she slid into bed with her back to the pile of pillows and tried to will herself to sleep.
    She must have dropped off, because the next thing she was aware of was the other side of the bed dipping down as Jack slid in. Within minutes she could