JUST A LITTLE FLING by Julie Kistler

Author:Julie Kistler
Format: epub

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Chapter 6

Lucie felt faint. As if she would ever agree to Ian moving in with her, even for a few hours, even if her spine did feel like spaghetti. Even if he was, as he had reminded her, the perfect Ken doll, complete with accessories.

And then it hit her.

"Damn it," she swore out loud. Breaking away from him, she put both hands over her temples, unable to stop the thoughts from forming.

"What is it? Why do you look like your head's going to explode?"

Frowning, she kept her new discovery to herself, muttering under her breath. Could she tell him? Could she not?

"Lucie," he said with alarm. "Are you all right?"

Finally, she came out with it. "No, I'm not all right. But I do know how to get Steffi to dump your brother."

"What? How?" he asked eagerly.

Lucie shrugged and shook her head. "I can't believe I'm saying this, but I just realized the one sure way to make Steffi dump Kyle…"

"Yes?"

"Is for you to move in with me."

Ian stopped, narrowing his eyes. "Oh, really?"

"Really," she admitted. "It's what you said, about the perfect Ken doll. You, and Kyle. You're both like that."

He shoved his hands in his pockets. "Is that good or bad?"

"That's good. At least for this plan." She explained, "I told you before that Steffi hates to share her toys. And if you and I are supposedly together, well, it's as if I've got an exact copy of her favorite doll—a doll in the same family, with the same blue-ribbon connections and lovely house and oodles of charm."

"Thank you. I think."

"It really has very little to do with you," she noted abruptly, not at all pleased with her own conclusion, not at all sure she was going to be able to handle this. "It has to do with Steffi not wanting to share her toy or his Dream Family, especially with me."

"So rather than share him…?"

"My guess is that she will throw him out," she told him succinctly. "Which, by the way, is exactly what she did when my dad gave us both cashmere sweaters for Christmas one year. She cut hers to ribbons rather than be caught dead in the same sweater I had. A smarter girl might've cut mine to ribbons. But not Steffi. If I had it, its value plummeted enough that she wanted no part of it."

Ian ran a hasty hand through his hair, leaving short tufts sticking up here and there. But his blue eyes were alight with anticipation. "So I'm moving in for a few days, we're flaunting ourselves at your dad and Steffi, and killing two birds with one stone. Excellent."

Why did she hate so much giving in and agreeing with him? "I have a condition."

"Let's hear it."

"You may pretend to be my live-in lover, but you will not be my live-in lover," she said clearly. "No hanky-panky. None of this cuddly stuff or groping or even breathing on me."

One dark eyebrow arched. "That's a little harsh, don't you think?"

"No, I don't.

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