Gentlemen Prefer...Brunettes by Fielding Liz

Author:Fielding, Liz
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2011-05-31T04:00:00+00:00

Nick, having paid the delivery boy, was taking his time about returning to the kitchen, using the time to decide how he was going to persuade Cassie to help him. Because he hadn’t been kidding when he’d said that winning was everything. He wasn’t fooling himself either; to win he needed her help. In retrospect, however, he realised that it had been a mistake to offer to pay her.

It was fun to see her rise to his teasing, but he didn’t want her mad, he wanted her co-operative. There must be something she wanted, something that he could do for her. She was going to need a driver if she was going to take her nephews away. And someone to erect the tent, organise the camp. He couldn’t do it, of course. He was far too busy. But one of the young men who worked for him could be spared for a day. It would, after all, be an act of kindness... ‘What on earth—?’

Cassie, standing on one foot in the middle of the kitchen floor, was swaying dangerously. He dropped the carrier bag the delivery boy had given him and raced across the kitchen, catching her as she pitched forward into his arms.

She seemed incredibly small as he gathered her against him. Small and shapely, with a real old-fashioned waist that nipped in as if inviting an arm to slide about it. An invitation that he was happy to accept. She was the kind of woman built to sit on a man’s lap and lie against his chest with her head tucked beneath his chin.

Maybe that was why he held onto her for longer than was strictly necessary to stop her from falling. Why he found himself scooping her up against his chest.

Why kissing her suddenly seemed like a thoroughly good idea.

‘What the devil do you think you’re doing?’ Nick, trying to ignore a dozen signals flashing at him from every corner of his own body and quite a few of hers, heard himself growling at the woman.

Kissing Cassie might seem like a good idea and usually he wouldn’t have thought twice about it. He hadn’t thought twice about it in the bookshop. After all, you only lived once and he hadn’t had his face slapped...yet. But this time something stopped him. Some in-built sense of self-preservation warned him that Cassie didn’t play those games. And he didn’t play any other kind.

‘Well?’ he demanded, when she didn’t answer him. ‘Aren’t you content with one twisted ankle? Are you going for the full set?’

‘What’s the matter, Nick?’ Cassie responded, with equal vigour. ‘Are you concerned that if I do any more damage I won’t be fit to help you lay on the seduction feast?’

Anger would do as well as any other emotion to disguise the warm surge of desire that had swept over her as she had lain against Nick Jefferson’s chest. The need simply to let go and have him hold her, kiss her, make love to her. Was

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