Maybe it’s hitting me harder, because of everything that happened to me? Now that Harley and I have met, and made mad love to each other, it felt like I was going crazy, with want, with an intense desire, for her. She was the personification of love itself, who’d come to rescue me from a personal hell and darkness.   

Oh, Harley! This growing, endless, deep love between us will be the thing that will sustain me from now ‘til eternity, can’t you see?

She ran her hands through my hair, tucking some hair behind my ears, and then bent closer to start to cover my face with soft kisses. “Yes,” she whispered her answer to my unspoken question.

I shuddered as I took a deep breath and then blew it out, as I slowly pushed her back while I gripped her shoulders. I had miles to go before sleep tonight, to quote Mr. Frost. Hopefully, in one piece, because this would mean I would have survived the dangerous plan I was to implement later tonight.

“Ha-a-a-arley, I … I’ll have to get to the airport …”

“And leave my bed?” she asked softly, but didn’t pause from her soft kisses, gradually moving her lips down my nose after laying several kisses on my forehead. “I was thinking I could stop you with kisses …”

No. No. I do NOT want to leave your bed. But …. “I … I told you. I have to …” I started to respond but realized, to my consternation, that I’d lifted my chin up expectantly to meet that mouth making its way down to mine. I moaned when our lips met.

“To take care of business?” she asked as she drew back, and then licked my lower lip with the tip of her tongue. “My business, Aerin?” she asked hoarsely as I felt an electric warmth spread throughout my body from the radiating point of our kiss.

Uh, oh. I shut my eyes, gripped her shoulders more firmly, and then pushed her back to at least an arm’s length. She was still unconvinced about my plan to keep her safe by helping the feds trap that target who’d caught their attention, ironically, through Harley’s analysis. Her kisses, her body, were slowly driving me crazy but I really had to put a stop to this.