Adding Up to You by Jill Shalvis

Author:Jill Shalvis [Shalvis, Jill]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781488078422
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2007-08-15T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 11

THE FIRST TIME AROUND, Kenna sat with Wes in a two-seater kart. He took the track like a pro—meaning full speed—making her scream with far more terror than laughter.

Hands and body in full control of the kart, whipping them around the track, he glanced over. “Stop?”

“No!”

That caused a smile, and by the end of their lap time, she wanted to do it herself.

They picked out their karts and before the laps started, when they were side by side, waiting for the green flag, he looked over at her and revved his engine.

That was such a guy thing, she laughed. “I’m going to win,” she called to him.

“No, you’re not.”

And true to his word, he beat her, the first two times in fact, but on the third, she pulled ahead of him in the last lap and won by a hair. She got out of the go-kart and marched right up to him.

He was grinning, until she stabbed a finger into his chest—a chest that didn’t give an inch. “You let me win. Don’t ever let me win.”

“Then stop driving like a girl.”

Oh, that did it. “One more.” She got back into her kart, and on the fourth try beat him for real.

“I didn’t let you win,” he said when it was over.

“I know.” Coolly, she let him move ahead of her before doing a little victory dance.

But when he looked back over his shoulder and caught her at it, he grinned.

And once again, the air sizzled around them.

They got back into his Jag. For a long moment, the air was tight with everything they’d repressed, with a longing and a need neither of them dared put into words.

“You had fun,” he said quietly.

She lifted a shoulder. “It was okay.”

“You had fun. I have the hearing loss from your screams to prove it.”

“Yeah? So wear ear plugs next time.”

“Say it, Kenna.”

When he looked at her like that, all dangerous smile and intense eyes, she knew she’d tell him whatever he wanted to hear.

But this time, it was the utter truth. “I had fun.”

“And?”

“And…” She drew a deep breath. “And if you’d stop looking at me like that, I might have the smallest chance of being relaxed. Very relaxed.”

With a grin, he started the car.

* * *

THE DAYS PASSED and work went on. Kenna buried herself in it, happy enough. One afternoon she took herself to a conference room to work, where she could spread out her papers, where there was no phone and no interruptions.

And okay, maybe she didn’t want anyone to see what she was working on.

For several hours, she was alone, and she read and worked away, until, without a knock, without any warning at all, the door opened and in came Wes.

He shut the door behind him and leaned against it, not saying a word.

Her heart leapt right into her throat, annoying her. More so when his gaze took itself on a little tour of her body. She wore a perfectly acceptable dress, with long snug sleeves and a tight bodice.

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