As she pulled on panties, Caleb said, “Order red instead. It’s your signature color.”

She laughed, while Caleb adjusted himself in his jeans. “What’s the matter? Pants too tight?”

“Yes. You have no idea how you just looked wiggling into those panties.”

“No, I don’t.” Trish shoved the panties back down to the floor and pulled them off. She stepped in front of her full-length mirror and lifted a leg, thoroughly enjoying the shocked arousal on Caleb’s face reflecting back at her. “Let me see.”

“You are going to kill me.”

Trish pulled the panties up her legs, making sure Caleb got a nice view. “But you’ll enjoy every minute of it.”

Caleb nearly tore through the front of his jeans watching Trish display everything she had and then some. “Oh, hell, yeah.”

When he pulled her into his arms again, Trish looked up at him, her brown eyes serious. “I do believe in love and marriage and a happily ever after, you know. I just never saw it happening for me. I’m still not sure it can.”

Caleb thought it was ironic that a woman so confident, so successful, could doubt that she would ever find love. And he found it amazing that what he already felt for her seemed suspiciously like love.

“Trust me, Trish, not to hurt you.”

She nodded without hesitation. “I do.”

“Then let’s go for a ride.”

Trish grinned. “Can I drive?”

“Our relationship, my Harley, or in the bedroom?”

“All three.”

“How about we drive the first together and take turns with the other two?” Though he felt a little pang at letting her drive his bike.

“Perfect.” She threw her arms around his neck. “Now kiss me, you big lug.”

“You got it, Angel.” Caleb moved his lips over hers and sighed. She was a hell of a woman.

Which was confirmed when she grinned up at him. “Now let’s get a move on. We have a bridal shower to be late for, and an ex-wife’s wedding to crash.”

Erin McCarthy sold her first book to Kensington Brava through author Lori Foster's website contest in 2002, and has since sold an additional nineteen contemporary romances and novellas to Brava and Berkley Publishing. Her debut, BAD BOYS ONLINE, was a Romantic Times Top Pick, and BAD BOYS IN BLACK TIE was a USA Today bestseller. Erin lives in Northeast Ohio with her husband, two kids, and two cats.