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still have the meeting with Hotchkiss,” he teased.
    “And after that?”
    Adam hesitated, and her heart started to fall to the pit of her stomach when he pulled her closer and caressed her hair.
    “I… I want us to make it work.”
    “That doesn’t sound so sure, Adam.”
    “I…”
    He groaned as he lowered his head to her breasts and kissed his way towards her neck.
    “Then how about I just show you again.”              
    Adam started to consume her, and Kathleen longed for him all over again when she pried her body from his and curled her legs close to her chest.
    “Kate, please don’t---”
    “Say the words, Adam,” she said. “Or send me on my way.”
    Stretching to his feet, Adam stepped towards her and brought her face to his.
    “I … I just like being with you,” he said.
    “Is that the best you can do?”
    “Kate, I am trying here.”
    She moved to meet him and touched her hands to his arms as the fire flickered at their backs.
    “And you’re okay with the view?” she asked.
    “Much more than that.”
    His kissed her hair and pulled her close. Listening to the beating of his heart, Kathleen nodded into his neck and released a heavy sigh.
    “So we take the meeting,” she said. “And I’m going to hope that you’ll give me more. But right now…”             
    She wrapped his fallen shirt around her body and nibbled of a piece of sushi.
    “I worked up an appetite. You?”
    Adam laughed and sat next to her as she pushed a piece of raw fish into his mouth. Licking the ginger sauce away from her fingers with her tongue, Kathleen held his hand and sighed.
    “We’ll eat,” she started. “Then we’ll go over the contract. And then we’ll see.”
    “And hope, Kate. Don’t forget about that.”

 
    Chapter 6
     
    “Tell me again.”
    Riding in the back of his town car, Kathleen watched Adam page through an entire steno pad’s worth of notes, his fingers flailing frantically as he whipped from one set of scrawl to another and then another.
    “It’s all right there on the page, Adam,” she reminded him. “If you’d only listened to me.”
    “Didn’t I?” he insisted.
    “You made that a little hard,” she teased. “Hope it’s not going to show.”
    Adam wordlessly pointed his pen to her out of order blouse buttons with a smirk on his face.
    “Last time I let you put my clothes back on,” she said. A dark cloud spread over his face, and Kathleen started to reach for his hand when he held back and turned his total attention back to the notes.
    “Kate, I need you to run it by me one more time.”
    “You just want to hear me talk.”
    “Added bonus,” Adam said. “But humor me, Kate.”
    Rolling her eyes with a sharp groan, Kathleen eased her body closer to his side and tapped her fingers to the page.
    “Hotchkiss isn’t the fool that Walters took him for,” she started.
    “Or me for that matter.”
    “Don’t want to think of you as anyone’s fool.”
    Their eyes locked, and she moved to kiss him when Adam suddenly turned his head away.
    “Fine,” she conceded. “Sure Hotchkiss drafted this. And eventually he realized that Walters would remember.”
    “So why the brief?”
    “Because of this little shred of sunshine.”
    Adam focused on her notes, and a smile spread across his face as he asked for the first contract again. Kathleen unzipped his leather briefcase and flipped to the third page with a proud smile.
    “Who said impulses were a bad thing?” Adam asked.
    “You never did.”
    He tenderly kissed her cheek and leaned back with a contented sigh.
    “This is going to be short and sweet,” he said. “Thanks to you.”
    “Me?” she nervously asked.
    Adam started to shake his head when the town car screeched to a stop. Straightening his tie, Adam left her side, and he swept around to the passenger’s door, cracking it open as he took hold of her hand.
    “Stick with me, and we’ll make this happen.”
    Together they walked