Chapter 6

He paused to consider. His eyes beamed a speculative challenge as he answered, "Whatever two strangers want to make of it."

"'Without a tomorrow." Jasmine asked.

"Tomorrow I'm gone," he replied.

Well, that was laying it on the line. No future with Collins Templeton. Not that she had had time to even think of one or consider whether it might be desirable.

"Then I'll just take this one night experience with the man behind the name," she countered, pride insisting that his schedule did not affect her expectations from this blind date, which had been zero before she met him anyway.

Sexual invitation simmered back at her. "I wonder if you will."

She hadn't meant a one-night stand. Another wretched blush goaded her into being uncharacteristically provocative. "You win some. You lose some." It was a warning for him not to assume anything.

He grinned. "The game is afoot. And you can't cut and run because your sister is watching and she'll kill