Emmett escorted her in his apartment and shut the door, and watched as she moved around. She turned on the floor lamp, picked up his

remote and put it in the wicker basket where he kept the other remotes. He never had other woman in his apartment. That might be why it was

odd, watching her roam. He tried to see the place as she was seeing it. It definitely wasn't clean. His t-shirt was on the back of the chair where he

left it after his run this morning. An empty coffee mug and plate was still on the coffee table were he left them. She probably thought he was a

slob.

She picked up a framed photo and turned. "You're a sailor. It looks like quite a storm."

He knew the picture she was looking at. He was twenty-one and a bit on the reckless side, he was on his sailboat ATHENA. A storm had

come up and he struggled to get the boat on shore. His thumbs pricked before the wind grew but he ignored the premonition. It was touch and

go for a while, but he could still recall the thrill of getting his boat onto shore. Then she looked at the faces and in the eyes of his father and aunt.

He knew that he was selfish and reckless. It was a similar storm that had taken his mom and uncle's life. But he kept the photo that Jasper had

token of that day as the responsibility he had for his family.

"You must be a very good sailor."

"I'm Greek." And lucky.

"Greek myths. I never sailed but I read about them in my mythology course. Of course I read the roman and Celtics, too. You think this is silly." She glanced at him and then looked away. "When I first saw you I saw a mix of Hercules and Adonis."

"Really." Adonis, the lover! The man with an impossible task of handling two women. Well I couldn't fault him for that. I'm having more trouble trying to handle this one.

Following her as she tidied up was fun. She opened the refrigerator, then glanced over her shoulder. "There's no food. Don't you eat?"

"Don't you stop eating?"

"I didn't have dinner. I was shot. I lost some blood. The hospital didn't give me anything. At least when I give blood they give me some cookies. Do you at least have a stash of chocolate somewhere?"

"You eat when you're nervous or frightened. Which one are you?'

"I'm hungry. It's a little after 11. And all I had were those strawberries."

"I think you nervous because were alone in my apartment."

"You don't make me nervous Detective."

"Oh I think you do. Why don't we talk about what happened in the parking lot, clear the air and make some ground rules."

"I've been thinking about it too."

Emmett walked to the refrigerator and took out bottled water and offered it to her. She shook her heard. He downed half of it but it did nothing to quench the heat building in him.

"You're attracted to me, right?"

Emmett nearly dropped the bottle of water. "Yeah, I think we've established that."

"I'm attracted to you to. I've never…I mean I don't usually… in the parking lot… that was a first for me."

He took two steps toward but he stopped himself. She moved around the small island to the center of it. It took a lot for him not to follow her. "It was a first for me, too but…"

"Can you let me finish?"

She fisted her hands on her hips. Emmett realized that he was dealing with two different women. The vulnerable one that eats the nerves away and the fiery one that gave killer looks and barked out orders like a drill sergeant. Is that why she fascinated him, so? "Go ahead."

"I had some time to think while I was getting that tetanus shot. We're attracted to one another but some hanky-panky between a bodyguard and his assignment isn't in the good cop to-do-list. Right?"

"I'm with you so far."

"When you get around me all I want you to do is touch me. I want you. At first I thought it was because of the danger and adrenaline rush but I'm not in any danger now and I still want you."

She had a mouth on her.

"Then there's the other part that someone wants to kill me."

"I'm with you there, Goldilocks."

"So I came up with a solution. Because if we keep trying not to kiss each other then were going to be distracted from figuring out who is Snake Eyes. I think that we need to give into this mutual attraction and get it out of our system."

Emmett knew he should have said something or raised his hand but he couldn't even think. His brain cells weren't with him right now.

"I propose we become sex buddies and use each other as such."

"What do you mean sex buddies?"

"You know sex buddies is someone you call when you want really hot sex but there's no romance, no strings, no emotional involvement. And no work. Relationships are work. We need something low maintenance and I think this fits us to a T."

Something twisted in Emmett's gut as he circled the counter toward her. "You have sex buddies? Who? How many?"

"No, I don't have any." She says taking three steps back. "Yet. I read it in Cosmo and I was thinking about it but I'm talking about you. And me."

She backed up three more steps and he followed but she didn't stop talking.

"Sex buddies is perfect for us. Were going to be working together trying to stop Snake Eyes and we have this kind of primitive attraction and…"

It gave him pleasure to see her eyes grow huge when he used his hands to cage her against the wall.

"And…?" he provoked.

She moistened her lips. "It just seems logical."

The one thing it wasn't was logical. It was irrational. Nothing was rational about the way he felt about her or her solution to their problem.

"How about it?" Rosalie asked

Emmett couldn't even think straight right now. If Rose wanted a sex buddy then he's fill the bill.

"Okay!"

A/N:

I hope you guys are enjoying St. Plaski's Day. Go Green, which is true for the earth. So I hope you guys liked the new chapter.

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