Page 43 of Legal Seduction

So she added, “I haven’t seen you naked, either. Not really. I don’t know much more about you than Allison McCann has put out in the press releases for Street Legal.”

He cocked his head and studied her face, skepticism on his handsome one. “Really? After working for me for two years...”

“I know how you’ve been the past two years,” she said. “About how hard you work...” She smiled to soften her next words. “How hard you play...”

Because the conversation was getting so serious between them, she wanted to play now. She was far more comfortable with that than with the conversation heading where it was—into very personal and private matters of hearts and souls.

She wasn’t ready to let him see either her heart or her soul. Not now—not when they had so little time left to be together and not when she was beginning to feel so damn vulnerable with him.

She stepped closer to him until her body pressed against his. Arching her hips into his, into the erection straining against the fly of his suit pants, she teased, “I love howhardyou play...”

He narrowed his eyes as if he was completely aware that she was trying to distract him and he wondered why. But he couldn’t resist her any easier than she could resist him. Those narrowed eyes darkened as his pupils dilated, and his chest began to rise and fall as his breathing grew faster and shallower.

Her pulse quickened even more than it had when he rang the bell. He excited her so damn much with his touch and his kiss.

But he didn’t touch or kiss her. He just continued to stare at her. And she knew she wasn’t the only one who was afraid of being seen naked—truly naked. Simon wasn’t any more comfortable about laying himself bare to her.

She’d once thought that he didn’t have a heart or a soul. But now she knew he had them. He just hid them to protect them, like she did.

And knowing that about him, knowing that they had something in common, scared her even more. She could not fall in love with Simon Kramer.