Heart of Dixie by Tami Hoag

Author:Tami Hoag [Hoag, Tami]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance, Contemporary
ISBN: 9780553591446
Publisher: Bantam
Published: 1991-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

Dixie lay in her bed staring at the ceiling. Above her, Dee was howling at Letterman again. She glanced into the shadowed corner at her golf club, then discarded the idea. What difference did it make if her cousin was as loud as a troupe of clowns? Dixie had the distinct feeling she wasn’t going to be getting much sleep tonight anyway.

After all that had happened today—the incident in the truck, the scene on Sylvie’s porch—she had been fairly certain she wouldn’t be going to bed alone tonight. She’d given Jake the green light to pursue the relationship. She’d given every indication that she wouldn’t turn him down if he asked.

Of course, she hadn’t come right out and said she was willing to go to bed with him. That wasn’t her style. As liberated as she was, she had never been able to be sexually aggressive. She liked the idea of the man being the instigator of a physical relationship, and if that tarnished her image as a modern woman of the nineties, then that was just tough. There was something to be said for old-fashioned femininity.

“I think you must have said it a little too well tonight, Dixie darling,” she muttered to herself, tossing over onto her side as frustration churned in the pit of her belly.

The way Jake had kissed her when he’d brought her home, she had wondered if they would even make it all the way to her bedroom. But then he had stepped back. The fire in his eyes had taken her breath away, and he’d kissed her again, closing the distance between them with one powerful stride, wrapping her up in his embrace as if he meant to fuse her to his big body. She had all but melted from the heat they’d generated. But then he had stepped back again. This time he had bade her good night and left.

She should have called him back, she thought, rewriting the scene in her head. She envisioned herself calling out to him, and Jake turning slowly, the moonlight silvering his hawkish profile—of course there would be a moon; what was a romantic night scene on the beach without a moon? He would pause at the foot of the stairs and look at her with that burning intensity in his eyes. Then he would bound up the stairs two at a time and sweep her off her feet. The scene would cut to her moonlit bedroom, the two of them naked, sheets twisting around them, passion scenting the air as they made wild love.

Turning onto her other side, she smacked her pillow with a fist. Too bad she wasn’t as good at seduction in real life as she was in her imagination. Then maybe she would be making a little noise of her own in this room instead of listening to her cousin’s television through the ceiling.

A scrape and a bang sounded somewhere outside her window. Scrape, bang. Scrape, bang. Bob Dog barking in rhythm.

“Must be a shutter loose,” she mumbled, making a mental note to fix it the next day.

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