..."What do you want?" Colleen's voice was a hoarse whisper.

"I think we've already covered that." Sean made no move to touch her, stood almost too still in the hallway gazing down at her.

"Do you mean to hurt me?" Colleen looked up and down the hallway, hoping someone else would happen by. But surely there were people in the rooms on her floor. "I'll scream."

"I would never hurt you, Colleen," his expression softened just a little. "And I won't allow anyone else to. Ever. I promise you that."

Colleen's mind was spinning even as her body resumed its ache. Every nerve ending in her body was electrified and the craving in her center grew. God help her, she wanted him, this stranger who showed up out of nowhere. But the things he said… It was insane. He didn't know her. How could he say—

"And I want you to scream," Sean's seductive voice broke into her thoughts. "But I want you to scream in pleasure for me."

Colleen released the breath she hadn't realized she'd been holding. Her body needed him inside her, instinctively knowing that a night with him would be unlike anything she'd ever known in her thirty-one years.

But she couldn't just go to bed with a stranger! Could she? Not that anyone would know but still…

Her hand fumbled behind her for the doorknob to her room and found it.

What's it going to be, Colleen?

Colleen took a deep breath before saying, "I can't."

Again, he seemed unmoved. "Why?" he asked, his voice a seductive purr. "Are you married? Are you seeing someone, Colleen?"

I love the way he says my name with that accent.

Her voice sounded small. "No."

"Then you can do anything you wish," Sean continued. "You can cry out for help or walk into your room alone. I won't stop you."

Yes, she could and should do one or both of those things.

"Or you can give in to what your body wants." Gently he lifted a lock of hair from her shoulder, rubbing the strands between his fingers and thumb. "I will fulfill every desire you've ever had, Colleen. I promise you won't regret it."

I'll just bet I wouldn't.

Colleen turned the knob of the door and pushed it open. All she had to do was back into the room and close the door. That's all she had to do.

She took a step back and then another. Standing just inside the doorway of her room, she watched for his reaction but he only waited silently, unmoving. But the hunger in his eyes was unmistakable.

Well, if he was so bound and determined to have her why did he just stand there?

"I can't enter unless you invite me in," Sean explained as if in answer to her thought.

It's now or never. Make the call.