Just One Taste by Kimberly Kincaid

Author:Kimberly Kincaid [Kincaid, Kimberly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
ISBN: 9781420138887
Amazon: B00ONTR6QK
Barnesnoble: B00ONTR6QK
Goodreads: 23433952
Publisher: Zebra
Published: 2015-05-24T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

“Please, for the love of all that’s holy, tell me that’s the last one.”

Jesse looked up from his spot at the end of the private dock, zeroing in on Kat just a few boards away. The long, lean muscles of her forearms flexed in the fading daylight as she reached into the tool belt around her trim waist, and even though he’d tried all day to fight it, Jesse was unable to cage the heat in his veins at the sight of Kat’s disheveled ponytail or her damp brow.

Christ, this woman gave a whole new meaning to the phrase hot mess.

“Looks that way,” Jesse said, trading his out of line thoughts for a half-smile. Between the handful of hours they’d spent on small projects during the week, plus today’s giant task of swapping out all the rotting dock boards leading to the lake, he and Kat had quickly rediscovered their comfortable rhythm of being around each other. Okay, so her bright laugh and faded cutoffs were threatening to end him outright. But her carefree expressions and her obvious love for the space they were fixing up made it all too easy to not just be around her, but to want to be around her.

Spending time with her was like being in the kitchen. And in the same way that he was powerless against needing food to keep him straight, Jesse was fighting a losing battle when it came to wanting Kat McMarrin.

“Well, good,” she said, delivering Jesse back to the dock with a dip of her chin. “Because we did a ton of work today, and I, for one, am ready to kick back with a cold drink and a good book.”

“You stay in a lot, don’t you?” Jesse asked, shifting the gears of their conversation as he removed the last of the old dock board with a swift twist and yank.

She grinned, hefting a fresh two-by-six from the dwindling stack at her feet and lining it up with care before guiding it into the open gap. “Guilty as charged. I didn’t have a permanent home for so long, I suppose I’m making up for lost time. But I’m a firm believer in surrounding yourself with positive energy. Mine’s just at home.”

“What about the lake house, though?” He knelt down across from her, catching just a hint of jasmine on her skin before he exhaled and screwed the dock board into place.

“What about it?” Kat sat back on her heels, draping her arms over her sun-bronzed thighs. Her free-and-clear expression backed up the lack of pretense in the question, and damn, her honesty was the sexiest thing Jesse had ever known.

“You spent all your summers here, and you have some good memories of the place. Plus, you’re working really hard to fix it up. Doesn’t that count as home?”

Kat blinked, her pretty blue eyes sparkling against the backdrop of the sunset over the lake around them. “We always packed up and left here, just like everywhere else. I guess with all that coming and going, I never thought this was a place I could call home.

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