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“Not a chance. This is the most sensual music there is.” He dipped Ellie.

Ellie sighed and let Seth take over again. She remembered the dance classes she and Patti took together because their husbands were too busy. She tried to show Charlie the steps but he never seemed able to spare the time. She wanted to call Patti and describe the club and how much fun she was having.

She was startled out of her daydream when Seth kissed her neck, sending a shiver right down to her toes. She pushed away from him.

“You have to stop this.” Ellie fought to catch her breath. “I like you, but we can't be lovers. I'm married.”

Without a word, he led her off the dance floor to a dark corner. He pressed her against the wall and braced his hands on either side of her.

“If you were my wife, I would come after you wherever you tried to hide. I'd take you home and do whatever it took to make you want to stay.” He lowered his eyes and looked at her body. “And I'd take you dancing so other men could see how lucky I was, but then I'd have to take you home early because I'd need to make love to you.” He closed his eyes and took a deep breath. “But that's just me.” He started to back off.

“One more thing.” He lowered his mouth and kissed her deeply, passionately, using his lips and tongue to excite her. He broke away leaving Ellie's head spinning. “I'd kiss you like that every day, so it's clear where you belong.” With that he grabbed her hand and marched her over to the table where Jamie and Marshall sat.

“See that Ellie gets home safely,” Seth said to the two men.

Can KD convince Kelsey they were made for Â
each other before she marries the wrong guy?

Born Again Virgin

When she started a new life in the small town of Holly Hill, Kelsey Simmons made a vow to give up sex until she found The One. Now, finally, she has Mr. Right set firmly in her sights. She's got the perfect plan to catch him. Trouble is, her intended target dodges cupid's arrow and it hits Mr. Wrong smack in the rear.

KD McKinley isn't looking for love. He's just renovating Kelsey's house to help out his ill stepfather. But smart and sexy Kelsey proves impossible to resist. Pretty soon, KD is reconsidering the whole white-picket-fence thing. However, his Miss Right thinks he's all wrong and KD isn't sure he can convince her otherwiseâ¦

Enjoy the following excerpt for
Born Again Virgin:

“Kelsey?”

“I'm here.”

He turned at the sound of her voice and she emerged from the shadows on the front porch. Even with barely a skerrick of moonlight, he could tell by the way she held her arms around herself that she wore that red dress. The sensuous
swish
of fabric and the delicate waft of her perfume teased his senses. His heart took off again and he prayed for more light. Where was a full moon when you needed one?

“Thanks so much for this. I wouldn't have been surprised if you'd told me where to go when I rang.”

“I wouldn't do that.” It hadn't been an option. Not once she'd said those magic words,
I really need you.
Even if it was only for a bit of routine home maintenance, the fact she needed him made something swell uncomfortably in his chest.

Jeez, McKinley, don't get fanciful. It's not your chest that's swelling. His discomfort was lodged firmly in his pants.

“I guess I knew that,” she said, an odd note of surprise in her voice. Then she warned, “It's really creepy under the house.”

“I'm a big boy.” He squeezed his eyes shut. Now he sounded like he was big-noting himself. “And I have a flashlight. I'll just head down and check things out.”

KD's boots thudded on the stairs, getting farther and farther away. Kelsey felt like slapping herself. What had she been thinking, asking him to come out here? She should have just crawled into bed and tried to sleep without the comfort of hot tea and jazz. Now she had to deal with the nerve-racking notion of KD at her house after ten at night and her still wearing her designed-for-seduction dress. Not to mention he would know dinner with Stefan hadn't led to a night of passion. A major embarrassment, after the way she had played up the date for his benefit.

Cursing her idiocy, Kelsey wandered back inside. Her eyes had adjusted to the dark enough that she could find her way down the hallway to the kitchen, where she sank into a chair and put her head on her hands.

She didn't wait long. In a few minutes the sound of the fridge purring to life alerted her to the fact the electricity was back on. She stood and flicked the kitchen light switch, giving a little cheer when it came instantly to life.

Maybe she'd have time to change before KD returned. Or at least throw a T-shirt over her plunging neckline dress. She'd sweat like a hog in this heat, but she didn't want KD to think she'd called him out here for anything other than a fuse.

She had raced into her bedroom and switched on her bedside lamp when KD returned. From her doorway he announced, “All fixed. I've replaced the fuse, but you should probably get an electrician to check things out, just to be safe.”

“Okay. Thanks.”

“These old places can have tricky wiring.”

“Yeah. Thanks.” Hadn't she said that already?

Nerves fluttered in her stomach. He had made no secret of his desire the past week or so, but now his expression was neutral. After this afternoon, she could hardly be surprised. He'd treated her to a perfectly nice lunch, had even included Gabby's kids with good humor, and she'd ended it by throwing her relationship with Stefan in his face and stamping on his foot like a five-year-old.

“How'd the date go?”

His question seemed to surprise him as much as it did her. His jaw set in a hard line, as though wishing he could take the inquiry back.

Kelsey wasn't sure why she still felt the need to lie. Self-protection, probably. “It was fine. Nice.”

“Can't have been that nice. You're here alone.”

She could have done without him pointing it out. “Not every successful date has to end in sex, you know.”

“I guess that depends on what you're aiming for.”

“I suppose that shows what
your
aim of any date with a woman would be.”

“Sugar.” That slow, insolent smile spread across his face and made her insides quiver. “If I went on a date with a woman like you, dressed like you are, she wouldn't be home trying to fix a busted fuse on her own.”

“Really?” She'd tried for disdain. It came out sounding more like an invitation to elaborate.

He took a couple of steps toward her, breaching the threshold of her room. Instinctively, Kelsey backed up, wishing she had the mettle to stand her ground. She could retreat no farther when her legs came flush against the bed. Disoriented already, she fell onto the mattress with an undignified plop.

Oh great. She was sitting on her bed now. Talk about sending a man signals.

“If I'd taken you out tonight, I wouldn't have been so easily turned away at your door.” Moving closer with the unhurried calm of a predator who knows his prey is trapped in an inescapable situation, KD knelt before her. At her level, his eyes smoldered with a rapacious hunger that took Kelsey's breath away.

“I'd have had to kiss this sexy, pouty mouth of yours.” His hand came up to hold her chin, his thumb idly tracing the line of her lower lip. “Red lipstick suits you, sugar. Bold and hot and seductive. You look so damned amazing, I just couldn't have left without touching you.” He drew a line down her throat with his fingertip. “Here.” He moved his touch to her shoulder. “And here.” With a skillful tug, he slid the thin spaghetti strap of her dress down her arm.

Kelsey sucked in a shallow breath, feeling as stunned as though he had bared her breast. But the dress clung to her flesh, catching on the hardened bud of her nipple. Closing her eyes, she didn't move as his knuckles brushed feather-light across the distended peak.

His next question brought her eyelids, which felt weighted down, flying open.

Gruffly, he demanded, “Did
he
touch you?”

He was serious, a possessive gleam in his blue eyes. He was actually asking about Stefan? Now? Through her brain-addling lust, Kelsey felt a surge of annoyance. “That's none of your business.”

“I need to know if he touched you,” he insisted. “
Where
he touched you, dammit. If you let him. If you liked it.”

Kelsey was too outraged to speak. Almost. “You're acting like a Neanderthal. I do not belong to you.”

“You do tonight.”

She sputtered in astonishment. “You are way too sure of yourself, KD.”

With deliberate slowness he cupped her breast more fully in his hand, gently kneading the flesh. A moan escaped her lips without her consent, evoking a knowing smile from KD. “I don't think so.”

Reversing Over Liberace

Jane Lovering

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