His crooked smile looked exactly like Benny’s when he thought he had Daphne right where he wanted her. The bunny didn’t like it, and neither did Molly.

“I had crushes on you and Alan Greenspan both at the same time. I can’t imagine what I was thinking of. Although the crush I had on Greenspan was a lot worse. Thank God I didn’t run into him with that sexy briefcase.”

He ignored that bit of folderol. “Interesting that Daphne seems to have a crush on Benny, too.”

“She does not! He’s horrible to her.”

“Maybe if she’d put out, he’d be nicer.”

“That’s more disgusting than me and Charlotte Long!” She needed to sidetrack this conversation. “You can get sex anywhere, but we have a friendship, and that’s more important.”

“A friendship?”

She nodded.

“Yeah, I guess we do. Maybe that’s what makes this exciting. I’ve never had sex with a friend before.”

“It’s nothing more than a fascination with the forbidden.”

“I don’t see why it’s forbidden to you.” He frowned. “I have a lot more to lose.”

“Exactly how do you figure that?”

“Come on. You know how I feel about my career. Your closest family members happen to be my employers, and I’m on shaky ground with them at the moment. This is exactly why I always keep my female relationships separate from the team. I’ve never even dated one of the Star Girl cheerleaders.”

“Yet here you are, all ready to get jiggy with the boss’s sister.”

“I’ve got everything to lose. You don’t have anything.”

Just this fragile little heart of mine.

He ran his thumb along the stem of his wineglass. “The truth is, a few nights of sexual dalliance might help your writing career.”

“I can’t wait to hear this.”

“It’ll reprogram your subconscious so you don’t send out any more secret homosexual messages in your books.”

She rolled her eyes.

He grinned.

“Give me a break, Kevin. If we were back in Chicago, it wouldn’t occur to you to even think about having sex with me. How flattering is that?”

“It sure as hell would occur to me if we were together all the time like we are here.”

He was deliberately missing the point, but before she could tell him that, the waitress appeared to see if there was anything wrong with the meals they weren’t eating.

Kevin assured her there wasn’t. She gave him a full-blast smile and began chatting with him as if he were her best friend. Since people reacted the same way to Dan and Phoebe, Molly was used to this kind of interruption, but the waitress was cute and curvy, so she found it annoying.