Is it an illusion? Not to Chase. She's never given him much of a clue that there's anything more, even the potential for it between them. If anything, he'd hazard a guess that he made the prime pick for this experiment of hers because she knows him well enough to know she won't fall. Doesn't matter - she still picked him. And the mercenary part? That's just a turn-on.

Not unlike those long, long legs, one ankle catching him up like bait on a hook. She's shorter than him by only a couple of inches, but looking down it's like she could go on for miles.

"I'm going to need that signed for in triplicate," he comments, glancing around for an opportune space. Good as it looks in the movies to sweep everything to the floor, in real life it's not much more than a mess and a waste of money. Particularly when there's another counter free, just across the way. Twirling her - the obvious next step in the dance - he pulls her back with him against the cabinets.