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"I want you, Liz," he heard himself say, a hungry edge on his voice. "More than I should. More than I want to."

"You what?"

He ignored that, and allowed himself the exquisite torture of brushing his cheek against her hair. "Up until now, I've been very, very good," he said. "The image of self-control. I've wanted, but I haven't taken. Haven't touched. Haven't tasted. But I realized something just now, something strangely liberating."

He nuzzled her hair aside, pressed his lips to the lovely line of her neck. Gloried in the quick, shaky breath she drew. "No matter how good I try to be, I'll never hold a candle to you," he said. "You with your badge, your morals, your pristine soul."

She made some kind of distressed noise, but he was too far gone to stop now. He just sucked in a lungful of her and plowed ahead. "It's just occurred to me that maybe fate's on my side this time. What if it's the universe that owes me?"

"Owes you what?" Her voice was thin and wary, but she didn't move away from him. She stayed perfectly still, and renewed desire clutched at his gut.

"Oh, I don't know. A little something for my trouble."