A Maverick to (Re)Marry by Christine Rimmer

Author:Christine Rimmer [Rimmer, Christine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

Derek was waiting on his front porch when Amy arrived that evening.

He ran down the steps and pulled open her door. “I thought you’d never get here.” His hair was still damp from a shower, his cheeks freshly shaven. He was and always had been the best-looking guy she’d ever known.

She reminded him, “We said six. I’m right on time.”

He didn’t argue, just grabbed her hand and pulled her out from behind the wheel. Right there by the car, he wrapped his arms around her and kissed her until her head spun, after which he bent to slide one arm under her legs and scoop her up against his chest.

She let out a laughing cry. “Derek!”

“Let’s go inside.”

Still laughing, she hooked one arm around his neck and pointed through the back window of her Audi. “I’ve got my overnight case and all the party stuff we need to bring in.”

“Later for that.” And he kissed her again—kissed her and went on kissing her as he carried her up the steps and into the house. He kicked the door shut with his boot and took her straight to his bedroom, where they remained for the next two hours.

At a little after eight, they put their clothes back on and went out to unload the car. They brought everything in and then got dinner ready.

It was after nine when they finally started working on the signs for the casino and the scavenger hunt. When those were done, they wrapped party-favor prizes. Midnight had come and gone by the time they carted their finished work into Derek’s spare room, where it would remain until the day of the party.

“Tomorrow, we’ll figure out all the questions for The Nearly Newlywed Game,” she said as they left the room. “We need twenty for Eva about Luke and twenty for him about her.” He pulled the door shut behind them and took her hand. “They need to be funny questions, kind of hard, but not too hard...” He wrapped their joined hands behind his back, which brought her right up tight against him, and gave new meaning to the word hard. All the breath left her body and a thousand fluttery creatures took flight in her belly.

“No more party talk tonight,” he growled as he nuzzled her ear.

“Poor baby.” She went on tiptoe to feather a line of kisses down the side of his throat. “You must be exhausted.”

“Yeah. We should go to bed.”

She had zero objections to that suggestion. He kept a firm grip on her hand as he turned for the open door to the master suite.

Once inside, he started peeling off her clothes.

“You know, Derek. Suddenly, you don’t seem the least bit tired.”

And then he kissed her and she forgot everything but the glory of his touch.

* * *

Sunday morning after breakfast, they came up with The Nearly Newlywed Game questions for Eva and Luke.

As they made sandwiches for lunch, Amy got a text from Eva. “She wants us to come to dinner at the farm tonight.

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