Operation Date Escape

slid her shorts down her long legs. “My place. My rules.”
    Could she give up control? Just for one night?
    He stepped away from the bed just long enough to remove his clothes.
    Her gaze was drawn to the length of him. So maybe being dominated for one night wouldn’t be such a bad thing. Joe was as hard as he had been that night at her place, but this was different. Tonight he would be inside her.
    She lifted her hips and began to shove her panties down.
    “Don’t ,” he said, stilling her hands.
    She looked up at him questioningly.
    “Leave them.” He moved between her legs, urging them open wider. “They’re sexy.”
    His rules.
    Nanci curled her fingers into the comforter as his head moved between her parted thighs. She could feel the warmth of his breath through her dampened panties. If that wasn’t enough to drive her mad, his tongue added to the torment, stroking her through the wet silk.
    “ Joe,” she begged breathlessly as the sensual torment continued.
    “ I want you to come for me, babe.”
    “Joe, please.”
    He tugged her panties aside, plunging his tongue inside her moist heat. She arched upward, crying out with pleasure.
    “Sweet, ” he murmured against her damp flesh. “So damn sweet.” He loved her thoroughly with his mouth.
    Unable to bear any more of the sweet torture, Nanci let go, crying out as she went over the edge.
    Joe dragged her panties over her hips and down her legs, tossing them onto the floor. Then he pulled a condom from the nightstand drawer and slipped it on while she lay watching, her desire peaking again.
    She reached between them as he moved over her, curling her fingers around the sheathed length of him.
    He groaned in response.
    “ My turn to pleasure you.”
    “Not tonight,” he replied through clenched teeth as he eased her fingers free.
    “Why not?”
    “Because tonight’s all about you , babe.”
    * * *
    “ Talk about nearly burning out of control,” Joe said from where he stood in the doorway.
    “ It was a close one,” Cole agreed with a nod as he peeled off his soot covered uniform shirt. They’d just returned from a 3 alarm fire. One they’d thankfully managed to get under control before the factory suffered a total loss. “Speaking of things burning out of control, how was your date with Nanci last night?”
    “That’s what I was referring to,” his friend said , a wide grin spreading across his soot-covered face.
    Cole chuckled. He should have known. “That good, huh?”
    “ Better.” Joe leaned against the doorframe, towel slung over his shoulder, clean change of clothes in hand. “So did anyone call you last night?”
    “Anyone?” Cole repeated with a grin. “You wouldn’t by any chance be referring to Kelsie, would you?”
    His friend nodded. “ Nanci said Kelsie was going to call you last night, but she wasn’t sure if she’d remember seeing as how she downed three of Friday’s Ultimate Coladas.”
    “Three?” Cole said in surprise as he kicked off his shoes. “No wonder she was talking the way she was last night.”
    “So she did call.”
    He chuckled. “Yeah. You could say that.”
    “ Did you guys get things worked out?”
    “Not exactly. She wasn’t coherent enough to have a rational discussion. However, I did learn that I’m hot in the sack, a nice guy, she thinks about me all the time and...” he said, his words trailing off.
    “And what?”
    Joe was going to eat this up since he’d suggested the same thing and Cole had shot the idea down. “Kelsie says she’s willing to have sex with me if I promise not to let myself get emotionally involved with her.”
    “Damn. You’ve found the perfect woman.”
    Kelsie was far from perfect and that’s what he loved about her, all those little idiosyncrasies that made her adorable and vulnerable and sexy all at the same time.
    “Perfection has nothing to do with it. She was drunk. She didn’t know what she was saying. Oh, and did I mention that she thinks men should have to wear bras to really appreciate them?”
    “ Wanna run that by me again?”
    He shrugged. “I’m not sure where she was going with that one. Kelsie said a lot of crazy things last night.”
    His friend chuckled. “Guess it’s safe to assume you didn’t take her up on her offer for emotionless sex.”
    “No. Not that the sex part wasn’t tempting,” he added with a grin. “But I want more where Kelsie and I are concerned. A lot more.”
    “You’re a better man than me,” Joe