Blue Jeans and a Badge by Nina Bruhns

Author:Nina Bruhns
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Silhouette
Published: 2005-04-21T04:00:00+00:00

Philip waited for her, stretched out on the steps, awaiting his fate in the darkness. The smell of sun-warmed earth and spring-fresh plants mixed with the enticing spicy aromas wafting from the neighboring restaurants. Here in town the stars were faint, but the moon shone above big and bright. A Chevy drove by trailing the twanging notes of a popular Tex-Mex tune in Spanish.

He liked it here. He’d never been to St. Louis, but he didn’t think it could possibly be better than Santa Fe.

Not that it mattered. He was only asking her to stay with him for one night. Not a lifetime.

Still. She had to see that Santa Fe was way better than St. Louis.

When she came out he was unprepared for the vision that came to a halt at his feet.

The dress was everything he remembered and more. She’d taken out her ponytail, and her pale hair cascaded over her shoulders, the ends turning in to accentuate the low cut of the dress over her full breasts. The cute strappy heels made her legs look miles long. She’d also found the lipstick the lady at the drug store had recommended when he was buying protection.

His mouth went dry as desert sand. “Oh, baby,” he whispered.

Vaulting to his feet, he resisted the overwhelming compulsion to sweep her into his arms and maul her right there, as the mountain lion hiding inside his body urged him to do. He confined himself to one intimate kiss.

“You look beautiful.”

He drove them to Maria’s, his favorite Mexican restaurant.

“The margaritas here are unbelievable,” he told her as they took their seats at a romantically lit table in a back corner. “The food, too.”

There was just enough light to see all the delectable details of her in that incredible dress. His mouth went from dry to watering. Damn. His body didn’t know what to do with itself.

He wished they’d gotten a booth so he could touch her.

She glanced around, then at him, looking like a nervous teenager trapped in a movie starlet’s body. “Stop looking at me like that,” she said with a little laugh.

“Like what?”

“Like you don’t want me in this dress, after all.”

He grinned. “Smart girl.”

“I haven’t said yes.”

“You haven’t said no.”

Her tongue peeked out and slid across her lips. His body tightened. “True.”

The waitress came, and Luce hiked a brow when he didn’t even try to order for her.

“You order for me,” he told her.

Her eyes widened. “What?”

He relaxed back in his chair. “Go on. I trust you.”

It took her about three seconds to get over her shock and quickly peruse the menu again. She ended up getting two different combo plates—one with blue-corn tortillas—with chips and guacamole to start, along with bowls of posole as the first course.

“Good choices,” he said approvingly, after the waitress had left. “Most outsiders don’t get posole, or blue corn.”

“I’m the adventurous type,” she said with a teasing smile.

His body tightened even more. “Lucky me,” he said, lifting his margarita for a toast. “To more adventures.”

Their glasses clicked, sprinkling salt over the table.

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