From Boss to Bridegroom by Victoria Pade

Author:Victoria Pade [Pade, Victoria]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, Romance, General, Contemporary, Single Mothers, Washington (D.C.), Lawyers, Sex in the Workplace, Bachelors, Legal Stories
ISBN: 9780373387083
Publisher: Silhouette
Published: 2001-10-01T07:00:00+00:00

Seven

Facing himself in the mirror the next morning wasn’t the easiest thing Rand had ever done. In a way he was playing possum and it ate at him.

The spasms in his back had stopped and there was no reason he couldn’t go into the office to work.

But had he called Lucy and told her that? Had he canceled their plans to work out of his apartment again?

No, he hadn’t.

Because he’d liked having her in the more intimate setting of his home. Because as much as he’d enjoyed working with her every other day in the city, working with her at home had made him feel as if he had her all to himself. And he’d liked that too much to give it up today. He’d liked it so much it had made falling off the ladder and getting hurt seem worth it.

He rolled his eyes at his own reflection as he lathered his face for a shave. It was pretty bad when he was willing to play sick to get a woman to his apartment.

Not just any woman, though. Any other woman he knew would willingly come home with him—like Shelley the day before. He’d nearly had to be rude to keep her from coming upstairs.

But it wasn’t any other woman he wanted in his apartment. It was only Lucy.

He was definitely having trouble in the female companionship arena the way he’d told her yesterday. More trouble than he’d realized if he was even willing to pretend his back was still on the blink to get Lucy up there.

But why? he asked himself.

All right, sure, Lucy was beautiful. Especially with her hair down—all those spirals of shiny mahogany. And of course there was that ivory complexion and those big blue eyes and those long legs and those full breasts. But he knew a dozen women equally as beautiful and not one of them could light his fire the way Lucy could.

It didn’t help that she had brains to go along with the beauty. And a sense of humor. And warmth and compassion and understanding to spare.

But again, he knew several women with those same attributes.

They just weren’t Lucy. Only Lucy could make his heart go light with nothing but a laugh. Only Lucy made his skin sizzle every time she touched him, no matter how innocently. Only having Lucy around made even the biggest problems seem more manageable, the air seem more pungent, food taste more delicious, music sound more incredible, life seem more worth living…

“You’ve got it bad,” he muttered to himself as he raised his chin so he could shave his neck.

He definitely had it bad. But for the wrong woman. And that was what he really needed to focus on.

Okay, she wouldn’t be his secretary forever, so his rule about not mixing business with pleasure would be a moot point before long. But that didn’t alter the fact that she was still a single mother.

And that was the real problem. That was what made beautiful, kind, compassionate Lucy Lowry off-limits to him.

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