'Tis the Season to Get Lucky (Entangled Indulgence) by Rice Heidi

Author:Rice, Heidi [Rice, Heidi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: mall, holiday, christmas, santa, snowstorm
Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC
Published: 2013-11-07T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

During the next hour, Kate discovered that Ryder Sinclair hadn’t been kidding: he was an expert at getting onto Santa’s naughty list.

Originally, she’d been keeping track of everything they took so she could inform the relevant department heads tomorrow. But by the time they’d cut a swath through the electronics department—to get two high-beam flashlights—and had a pitched battle in lingerie over the negligees, before she’d redirected them to women’s sleepwear where she’d picked out some fleecy pajamas she was actually prepared to wear, she’d gotten a headache trying to keep all their booty straight.

The trip to the store’s food hall had been equally productive—or criminal, depending on how you looked at it. With all the fresh food locked overnight in the cold storage facility, Ryder had insisted on pilfering the most expensive Christmas hamper on display and a bottle of top-priced Californian merlot—only being persuaded to forgo the vintage champagne because it wasn’t sufficiently chilled. And then of course they’d had to stop by home furnishings to pick up cutlery and paper plates and a corkscrew and… By then Kate had given up trying to do the right and proper thing—and decided she’d have to opt for the expedient thing: namely falling on general manager Gerry Garcia’s mercy tomorrow and hope he didn’t have her and Ryder hauled off to jail.

Consequently, once they reached the fifth floor and bedroom furnishings, with all their loot in tow, Kate had conceded that while she might not be as adept at petty crime as Ryder, she wasn’t as adverse to it as she had always assumed.

The thrill of doing something forbidden in the soft glow of the store’s emergency lights hadn’t just been exhilarating and fun, it had also been surprisingly seductive.

Ryder had flirted mercilessly with her throughout—especially while doing battle over the negligees—and she’d discovered a knack she didn’t know she had for flirting right back. To the point where she was now almost as exhausted from trying to keep up with all the verbal foreplay as she was from the zap of hormones whizzing through her system every time he brushed his fingers down her hair, or placed a quick kiss on her nose, or let his palm stray to her backside—which he seemed to be doing with alarming regularity.

The bedroom displays looked more than a little eerie, cast in the red glow from the emergency lights, but once they’d demolished a feast of Scottish oatcakes and venison pâté, ginger cookies and cold Christmas pudding, all washed down with the fruity merlot, Kate felt relaxed and surprisingly festive. She surveyed the wreckage of their picnic, as Ryder sat cross-legged with his back propped up against the base of a deluxe king-size bed made up with 800-thread count Egyptian cotton.

The low hum of arousal that hadn’t been far away since he’d kissed her so thoroughly in the stairwell pulsed harder as she studied him. With his eyes closed and his hand laid casually across his belly, he looked both peaceful and dangerous.

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