It Began with a Crush (The Cherry Sisters) by Darcy Lilian

Author:Darcy, Lilian [Darcy, Lilian]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2014-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

It was the age-old female problem, Mary Jane decided, looking in her closet.

What to wear?

Joe had confirmed the dinner plan on the phone after talking to his father, but he hadn’t said anything about where they might go, or whether he’d made a reservation. She had no idea if he was picturing a fancy restaurant meal or wings and nachos in a bar, and the whole thing was complicated by her doubts about the signals she wanted to send.

Was it really about signals? Hadn’t she already signaled quite a bit?

Too much.

She felt her own vulnerability like an ache in her bones. Like nakedness. If Joe had picked up so fast on Steve Wright’s malicious pleasure in other people’s life failings, then he would have no trouble picking up on how much she yearned for what he had, and what he had to offer.

What was that phrase, “low-hanging fruit”?

That was her. Ripe and red and ready to fall into his hand without him even having to reach for her. It wasn’t a sin or a crime or a fault, not at heart. She did know that. It came from the best things about her. She had a lot of love to give, and not enough people to give it to, and she felt thwarted by this, deprived of the best chance to be who she was.

It made her...well, all the things she’d felt before.

Naked.

Vulnerable.

Wanting.

And there seemed to be nothing she could do about it, because she’d been trying from the very start Tuesday evening.

Lee was downstairs right now, staffing the office for the evening. Mary Jane had told her what was happening, who she was going out with tonight, and Lee had whistled.

Which was so unfair!

Lee should know what this was like after her big dramatic romance with Mac so recently—having a baby on the way before they even knew if they had a workable relationship. They’d soon decided that they did, and now they were so loved up with their wedding plans that it was...sickening...or wonderful. Mary Jane felt both, depending on her mood.

But maybe this thing starting to happen between her and Joe wasn’t that same kind of glorious love. Wasn’t remotely like it, and Lee could recognize the difference.

I can’t dress as if I’m giving myself to him on a plate.

So she deliberately chose something much safer, an outfit that she wore around the resort when she wanted to be pretty and professional but comfortable, too—a plain skirt in a soft gray that fell in nice folds around her legs and a white knit top that didn’t cling too close.

Makeup, dangly earrings and heeled pumps made it all work for a more formal setting, if that was what he’d chosen. But if they went to a bar she wouldn’t be overdressed.

“You look great,” he said when he picked her up, meeting her out front of the office after she’d just come back from checking on everything with Daisy in the restaurant, and she had to laugh at herself for fretting over the whole issue because, really, he’d barely looked at her.

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