Just About Sex by Ann Christopher

Author:Ann Christopher
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Kimani Press
Published: 2007-08-28T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

By eight o’clock, Simone had had enough of the happy couple and their incessant cooing. Making her excuses, she took the extra piece of buttery rhubarb pie her mother gave her and went home to continue her sulkfest in the privacy of her own apartment.

When she got there, she lit her usual candles, started a fake gas fire in her fake fireplace, and put on some Miles Davis. Tonight, though, Miles wasn’t gloomy enough for her, so she turned him off and pulled out the big guns: Billie Holliday. No one enhanced a good funk quite like Lady Day.

Thus armed, she wrapped up in her fluffy cashmere throw, rolled into the fetal position in the corner of the sofa and plotted her bloody revenge against Alex Greene for ruining her life.

He had done this to her. Oh, yes. That stuttering computer geek had waltzed into her life and, without so much as a by-your-leave, had turned it upside down. And when that wasn’t enough, he’d turned it inside out, too.

What had he done? He’d made her look like an idiot on the Internet, sure, but that wasn’t the worst of it. The worst of it was that, just like those slimy, glistening earthworms that surfaced from the mud every time it rained, he’d tunneled his way under her skin, through her hot blood and into her brain.

There, he’d set up house, taking up every available space and shoving aside the things she should have been thinking about, like her clients, her column, her book and the house she wanted to bid on. He’d shown her all the qualities she found irresistible in a man: intelligence, humor, vulnerability, and sexiness.

He’d scared her and made her behave like a raving, certifiable lunatic the other day in his car. He’d opened a whole Pandora’s box of what ifs: what if there was more to life than work? What if they really did have a few things in common? What if he could ease the gaping loneliness in her life?

What if she had sex with the man who set her skin on fire every time he walked in the room?

Right on cue, her body began to tingle from the inside out. Her breasts and sex swelled painfully, as if all the blood in her body couldn’t get there fast enough. Aroused beyond all sanity for a sworn enemy, she arched her back, flung her arms over her head and stamped her feet into the cushions. When that didn’t make her feel any better, she grabbed a pillow, smashed it into her face and screamed into it until her throat hurt.

Maybe she should…go ahead and date Greene and see what happened. There. She’d thought the whole thought. What could happen if she spent a little more time with him? Would it be so bad, really, to test the waters? Would she be maimed or killed if she ate dinner with him once or twice? Of course not.

But she was beginning to think she’d die if she didn’t sleep with him.

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