Boys and Toys by Cara Lockwood

Author:Cara Lockwood
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2014-03-03T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

Liv had a sudden flash of her father wheeling in the sex toy suitcase, opening it up in the living room, and then having all the penis-shaped toys fall out onto the rug in front of all her cousins, aunts and uncles. That could not happen.

“Dad! What are you doing? Dad!”

Her father looked up at Liv. “Getting your uncle’s suitcase. He’s headed to the airport soon.”

That rolling black bag had a neon pink leopard-print ribbon around the handle. Liv knew it was hers, not her uncle’s. Liv saw that one of the side zippers wasn’t completely zipped on the front pocket. A tiny sliver of a condom package stuck out from the little opening, a bright little flash of neon yellow. It was the banana-flavored ones! Liv felt light-headed suddenly as her heart rushed blood to her head.

Her dad took a bump on the knobby stone-covered path from the garage. The condom all but popped out, its label now nearly in full view.

“No, that’s...” Liv trailed off. Was she going to fess up to owning it? Now—when there was a condom sticking out of it? Liv’s throat went dry.

“It’s mine,” Porter said, gallantly stepping up toward her dad.

“Yours?” Her father showed skepticism in his voice.

“I was headed out of town tonight,” Porter said, smoothly. “A trip to see my parents in Milwaukee. My niece tied a pink ribbon on so I wouldn’t forget that I promised her I’d play Barbie tea party next time I visited.” He nodded at the handle, as he easily took it from Mr. Tanaka, and positioned the bag, condom-wrapper hidden from her dad’s view. Her dad looked down at the handle and frowned.

“Oh, I didn’t see that there.” He frowned again. “Why was it in the garage?” he asked.

“Uh...” Porter looked at Liv.

“He took it out to show me the toy he got for his niece. See if a girl would like it,” Liv explained quickly. “We just hadn’t had a chance to put it back into his car, yet.”

“Oh.” Her father seemed to absorb that explanation.

Porter just smiled, holding the handle in his hand. Her dad shrugged and then went back to the garage in search of her uncle’s bag.

“You saved me,” Liv breathed when her father was out of earshot. She nimbly tucked the condom wrapper back into the zippered front.

“You’re my favorite kind of damsel,” Porter said, his mouth curving into a teasing smile. “The kind who owns a suitcase full of sex toys.”

Liv barked a laugh.

“Come on,” he said, putting his hand at the small of her back. “I’ll drive you and your bag of naughty tricks home.”

* * *

Despite Liv’s many protests that she was fine taking a cab, Porter insisted, which is how she ended up riding in his BMW all the way back to her condo in Wicker Park. When they got there, he parked and insisted on carrying her suitcase up to her second-floor walk-up.

“Thanks again,” Liv said, lingering by the door, keys in hand.

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