Chapter 404

Jake lunged toward her, plucking the jar from her hands and cradling it carefully in his palms. The touch of his hands on hers as he took the beaker sent a tingle up her arms and she suppressed yet another shiver, but she couldn’t stop the goosebumps from prickling her skin. He was closer to her than he had been during their entire interaction and for the first time she got a whiff of him. He smelled like…chocolate. Her mouth watered and she ran her tongue across her bottom lip hoping against hope that she wasn’t drooling. “That,” he said, turning and placing it carefully on the bench far away from her, “is none of your concern.” “Okay, so if I’m not going to be working in the lab, what am I going to be doing?” “Filing, email correspondence, typing up reports, and a bit of dictation.” “Now that I can do,” Emma said. He smiled and it was blinding in its brilliance. She stood basking in it for far too long. The iciness of his eyes warmed to a stormy grey and she felt the magnetic pull of