First Time, Forever by Cara Colter

Author:Cara Colter [Colter, Cara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781426837685
Publisher: Silhouette
Published: 2009-08-01T07:00:00+00:00

Kathleen looked in the mirror yet again. She had heard his truck pull up, but she was afraid to go out. She was wearing a beautiful white silk tailored shirt and gray slacks, the tenth outfit she had put on.

It made her look old and boring and ready for the office.

She wanted to be able to carry off one of those cute tops that showed the belly button, but those days were over for her. And she’d never even had a baby to blame it on.

There was a loud knock on the door. She made no move to answer it. She had left her hair down, but now, studying herself, she thought it looked awful. As if she was trying to look younger than she was.

Hastily she hung her head upside down, gathered up her hair and straightened. She began shoving pins in.

He knocked again.

With any luck he would go away.

She was just too old for this. The excitement felt as if it was too much. No wonder she had hidden behind her responsibility to Mac all these years.

Mac who had gone to Ma Watson’s half an hour ago in a fit of disgust.

Bang. Bang. Bang.

She hastily wiped the bright red lipstick off, then sat on the edge of her bed. She closed her eyes and willed him to go away. When that didn’t work, she tried desperately to remember her positive-thinking book. She tried to visualize something positive.

She could picture his beautiful smile, directed at her, full of the most heady tenderness.

“Kathleen?”

She started, opened her eyes and let out a little squeak of shock and dismay. He was standing in her bedroom door, looking at her.

“How did you get in?”

“I opened the door and walked. I thought maybe you didn’t hear me knocking. Or were in the basement, dying of snakebite.”

She glared at him.

He came and sat down beside her on the bed, too close, his rock-hard thigh touching hers. She scooted away.

“You’re sorry you said yes, aren’t you?” he asked quietly.

“How did you know?”

He reached up and touched her forehead. “It’s running across here in big black letters.”

“Are you sorry you asked?”

“No.”

“Evan, I just don’t know what to do. I don’t know what to wear or what to say. I can’t even put my lipstick on. I hate this. It’s like I don’t know who I am, I’m so nervous.”

“I’m not so scary.”

“Yes, you are!”

“In what way?”

She was stubbornly silent.

“In what way?” he asked again.

“You’re very good-looking,” she finally said.

He hooted. “And you aren’t?”

“Not in the same league. At all.”

“That’s completely untrue.”

“Well, you are very good-looking,” she said, stubbornly, as if that was a legitimate thing to hold against him.

“It’s not as if I can help it. An accident of birth.”

“And you’re too young for me.”

“Didn’t we cover this territory once before?”

She said nothing.

“Can I tell you something?” he said quietly, that stern note running through his voice that she’d heard him use on Mac.

“If you must.”

“You aren’t exactly acting your age at the moment.”

“And what age am I acting? If you say thirteen, I’m going to lock myself in the bathroom.

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