Erotic Research by Mari Carr

Author:Mari Carr [Carr, Mari]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Romance, Erotic, Adult
ISBN: 9781599988948
Google: R7Jt8t78ockC
Amazon: B0016IXMCI
Goodreads: 3212692
Publisher: Samhain
Published: 2008-03-17T11:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

Ross awoke several hours later to the sound of fingers tapping a keyboard at a frantic pace. Glancing over, he saw Julia, just as he’d seen her a thousand times in the past, one leg bent beneath her as the images in her mind flew through her fingers to the screen in front of her. The only difference was this time, rather than wearing her usual fleece pants and long-sleeved T-shirt, she was draped only in a blanket. A blanket that, fortunately for him, had been forgotten as it lay around her waist, leaving her breasts bare. A glass of iced tea sat untouched beside her as she focused on the pages before her.

How much of what she wrote was derived from their researching? The last forty-eight hours had been the most exhilarating and exhausting of his life and, for the first time since he’d become her editor nearly a decade ago, he found himself overwhelmed with curiosity over what she was writing. Ross had never had any trouble waiting until the final manuscript to see her work. Julia was an extremely talented writer. She would make her plot proposal, he’d tweak it, then he’d simply wait while she worked her magic. He found himself almost desperate to see what she thought of their explorations during the past twenty-four hours. To see if she was as heady from the experience as he was.

“Well, well, well,” he said, when he couldn’t stand the suspense any longer. “Looks like you’ve broken through the writer’s block. That is your erotic-romance novel you’re tapping away at, isn’t it?”

Her instant blush answered his question and he suspected she was indeed putting some, if not all, of their actions into words.

“Want me to take a look, see if you need to do any tweaking?” he asked nonchalantly. He rose from the bed to cross the room to where she sat at the desk.

“No,” she said quickly, saving and exiting from the file. “Not until I’m finished. You know that.”

“Well,” Ross teased, “I thought since we were collaborating on this project, you might want me to take a more hands-on approach.”

“More hands-on than what you’ve been doing? I don’t think I can handle any more of your hands!”

Delighted with her jest, Ross bent down and impulsively placed a quick kiss to the end of her nose. “Don’t let me interrupt your creative flow. I’ll just be over here in the kitchen, slaving over your lunch.”

“Actually,” she said, “I was about to take a break. I’ll help you. I think there are sandwich fixings in the fridge. Even we can handle that.”

“Sounds good,” he replied, grabbing sliced turkey, lettuce, tomatoes, mayo and some leftover bacon from the refrigerator. “If you look in that cabinet by the sink, I think there’s a big bag of potato chips.”

Together they made and devoured their lunch, washing the sandwiches down with ice-cold soda and talking about insignificant things—people at the publishing company, the weather, the latest episode of CSI.

“I suppose I should get back to work,” Julia said as they washed off their lunch plates.

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