Girl Gear 5: Wicked Games by Alison Kent

Author:Alison Kent [Kent, Alison]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance
Publisher: Harlequin Blaze
Published: 2003-10-10T04:00:00+00:00

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Chapter 8

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H ands and arms tucked beneath and between her breasts, Kinsey leaned her forehead on the warm tiled wall of Doug's shower enclosure. Hot water and steam slicked her skin, stripped her muscles of tension, the worries from her mind.

On the drive back from the Texans game earlier, she and Doug had stopped for a quick dinner with Izzy and Baron, arranged via a cell phone call.

Starving as always, Kinsey had hoped that a break for food and from the subject of her drunken marriage proposal would wash that particular conversation from Doug's mind.

So far, so good.

Too good, unfortunately.

Once back at his place for the ridiculous bikini bottoms modeling session he'd teased her about, she'd followed him into his bedroom. Instead of pulling her swimsuit from wherever he'd stashed it, he'd pulled out his suitcase and started packing for his upcoming week away.

She'd simply sat cross-legged against the head of the bed, watched and listened as Doug talked of Denver .

He hadn't talked of anything else, as if his travel preparations required one hundred percent of his concentration precluding his focus from drifting, his attention from returning to the conversation they'd started hours before.

Minutes ago he'd taken a call from Marcus West, and the two men had continued to talk until she was certain Doug had forgotten her existence. So she'd decided a shower was just the thing to warm and wake her, not to mention numb her mind, which was racing to depressing assumptions she'd never intended to entertain. Assumptions such as the one that said she really was nothing to him but a temporary good time, when she'd been hoping to convince him otherwise.

Until tonight, until ten minutes ago, she hadn't realized how right Lauren's assessment had been of Doug as a workaholic. Sure, Kinsey knew that he stayed busy, that he commuted two thousand miles on a regular basis, that he worked his butt off to balance commitments in both cities. But all his teasing bikini-bottom talk … what had that been about if he'd only brought her here to hang out while he packed? Did he really consider her simply a decorative accessory for his bedroom? Had she been imagining that his interest seemed to be taking root in deeper emotions?

Well, his moodiness was about to earn him a fat karate chop where it counted. She was not going to be ignored or treated like a flesh-and-blood Maxim model he kept around for times of horny frustration.

If all he really wanted was for them to remain friends, fine. They'd remain friends. They just wouldn't be playing friendly between the sheets.

And that sucked. That really, really sucked, because she enjoyed their closeness—even as she recognized that she'd reached a place where she needed more than that explosive physical intimacy.

She pulled in a deep breath, releasing it slowly as the water beat down on her left side and left shoulder, and sluiced over her back. Spray fizzed and spewed into her face; she couldn't even be bothered to move.

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