Decoy Date by Mira Lyn Kelly

Author:Mira Lyn Kelly
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sourcebooks
Published: 2018-11-05T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

The wedding pictures took forever, but the photographer had some great ideas, so Gwen couldn’t wait to see how the photos turned out. And now that they were through, there were still a couple of hours to kill before the next event. Not wanting to waste a minute, she was practically running to Brody’s car when she saw him closing the front passenger-side door.

He turned, his eyes raking over her in one heated pass before his head dropped in what looked like tortured defeat.

“What’s going on?” she asked, a sinking feeling in her stomach.

“Aunt Doris needs a ride.”

That wasn’t a big deal. So Gwen would have to keep her hands to herself for another ten minutes. No problem.

Only it was a problem, because the ride Aunt Doris needed wasn’t to the hotel. It was back to her house on the far side of Skokie so she could feed her cat. And then a ride back to the hotel.

And not surprisingly, she’d asked Brody to drive her…because he was such a “nice boy.”

Gwen couldn’t help but laugh. “There’s a cost to being everyone’s favorite.”

Brody pulled her in to his chest for a brief hug, tucking her wrap around her shoulders. “I only want to be yours.”

“You already are. And this won’t take long,” she promised. “We’ll still have some time to ourselves back at the hotel.”

“Good. Because I’ve missed you.”

She was smiling like a fool when Brody helped her into the car. She was smiling when they pulled into Doris’s drive. She was not smiling forty-five minutes later when the old dear finally reemerged and, after locking up the house, returned to the car, full of thanks for accommodating her need to feed her cat who apparently got destructive when dinner wasn’t on time.

Brody was as polite as ever, gently extracting Doris’s hand from his leg time and again. And by the time they got back to the hotel, Gwen had the feeling if she didn’t step in, Doris would be slipping Brody her room key. When all was said and done, it turned out to be a peppermint from her pocket, along with a series of adoring pats and a papery kiss pressed to his ruddy cheek. It was kind of adorable, but this broad had put enough moves on Gwen’s man already.

Gwen knew she was being ridiculous. It wasn’t like she was going to die if she and Brody didn’t get some alone time. It wasn’t like the world was ending.

But with how her heart was hammering and the skin across her arms and chest was tingling as if an electric current was running from one end of her body to the other and back again, it felt that way. She barely lasted until the elevator doors closed before flinging herself at Brody. He caught her up against him as if he’d been waiting and then, holding her close, kissed her senseless.

Vaguely, she was aware of the chime of the elevator, the whirl of her surroundings, and then the quiet snick of the door opening and closing behind her.

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