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alcohol or passion could excuse.  Emma slipped carefully from under him and went to the bathroom to clean a little.  Thankfully, she had a pair of jeans and a blouse in her overnight bag, as her dress was probably destroyed.  She dressed quickly, took everything that belonged to her and left the room and the man that was still sleeping in her bed.
    The drive to her apartment was long and it took her almost an hour to clear her head and think about what had just happened.  Tears started falling down her face, at the thought of what she allowed to happen.
    “It’s not who I am...” she muttered to herself.
    Emma was a kindergarten teacher raised to believe in the good in people.  Her whole life she had been fighting against the evil in the world, trying to teach the little children left in her charge that love can overcome everything.
    Her few romantic experiences have been with men, who in one way or another thought like her.  They have all come to an end for different reasons, but Emma wanted to believe that they weren’t meant to be together, although there were real feelings between them.
    Nothing in her life prepared her for Ross.  It wasn’t about the money or power the man possessed.  Things like that never really mattered to her.  What really troubled Emma was the fact that she had left herself fall to his level.  She had always despised men like him for their way of behaving and disinterest in the rest of the world.
    “This will never happen again...”

Chapter 5
    The next time Emma met with Ross it was at one of the family dinners, held by her mother.  It has been more than one week since the night they spent together and Ross had never attempted to contact her during that time.
    She walked in the garden after helping her mother to clean the table, hoping for some time alone.  Ross had mentioned nothing about them sleeping together during dinner, but his gaze had followed her everywhere.  Her mother had noticed that there was something off with her daughter, but Emma excused herself with some problems at work.
    “What are you thinking about?” Ross’ voice interrupted her thoughts.
    “Nothing,” she said too quickly.  “I was just going back.”
    “Don’t, ” he took her hand and tugged her towards the beautiful gazebo in the middle of the garden.  “They are more than able to entertain each other, you know?”
    “What are you doing?”
    “We need to talk.”
    “There is nothing to talk about,” Emma tried to free her hand, but the man was too strong for her.  “Let me go!”
    “Only if you promise that you will listen to what I want to say,” he smiled at her with the same smile, she remembered from the night at the hotel.
    She nodded and Ross let her sit down on one of the benches.  He took the seat right next to her and to Emma’s surprise claimed her lips in a searing kiss that warmed her to her toes.
    Ross had eyes only for Eva then and she couldn’t ignore the fact that every rush of blood pumping through her veins was now for him and him alone.
    Perhaps she felt his eyes boring into her or was it pure intuition, but her eyes lazily raked upward, burning a path in his skin with the heat of her stare.  Finally, her eyes reached his and Ross could see the slight look of fear when she came to the realization that Ross was also tracking her.  She knew he had seen her watching.  There was no point in denying it now.  Just like there was no denying the hunger Ross saw hidden, just behind the fear.
    That was the moment, when Emma finally started thinking that perhaps it wasn’t just her.  Maybe Ross was entertaining the same notion, but has been just better at hiding it.  She almost moaned from the unexpected feeling that was filling her heart.  The noise caused Ross’ gaze to move upward, meeting her own again. 
    In no time at all she was seated in Ross’ lab, thankful that the long hems of her shirt covered her naked thighs.  He claimed her lips in another heated