Chapter 5

As she reached up to take her drink, Maxwell bent down and kissed an exposed part of her shoulder. That's it, she thought; I can't hold this any longer.

She then turned around, attempting to set her glass of wine on the deck railing, but actually knocked both drinks off the rail, and the sound of crashing glass on the ground below filled the air for a moment.

Without either of them acknowledging what she had just done, she turned to face Maxwell and said, "I want you to know something. No matter what happens the rest of this evening, it has nothing to do with selling or buying a house. Right now, I don't care if you buy it or not."

Maxwell pulled her into him, his hand now firmly on the small of her back, "Oh, I'm buying it. There is no doubt about it."

He then pulled her up to his lips, and they began to kiss with great passion and heat. Their mouths were hungry, and their tongues were rapidly exploring each other.

After a minute or so, the kissing went from feverishly passionate to