Keeping Up Appearances by Jennifer McKinlay

Author:Jennifer McKinlay
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2013-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

7

A FIST POUNDED ON THE DOOR. Kid swirled Hailey into a seat and said, “Don’t move. I’ll be right back.”

She couldn’t move even if she wanted to. What was wrong with Kid? Or maybe she should be asking what was right with Kid? Since the day they’d met, she’d felt as if he’d been keeping her at arm’s length, and that was quite literally true during their brief yet hot kiss. And now here he was with open arms. So much for shucking; her oyster had just popped open on his own.

“You’re staring,” he said as he brought the pizza over to the coffee table.

“I just can’t believe that you know the words to a musical.” She rose from her seat and went to the kitchenette to grab some paper plates and napkins. In the little refrigerator, she found two cold beers and brought them over, as well.

“What is so shocking?” he asked. “It’s not like you found out I wear women’s underwear.”

Hailey dropped one of the beer cans and he laughed. “That one is yours. And that was a joke. I don’t wear women’s underwear unless I lose a bet to Uncle Pete.”

“You didn’t,” she said, sitting on the floor beside him.

“For twenty-four hours,” he confirmed.

“Was it…?”

“A thong,” he confirmed.

Hailey laughed. She didn’t want Kid to think she was laughing at him, but the thought of Kid wearing butt floss was too much. She tried to contain her laughter, but it just got worse.

“You okay over there?” he asked with a grin.

“Fine,” she said, coughing.

“All I can say is after that I no longer find them even remotely sexy. I figure if a woman is willing to wear one of those, she’s got issues.”

“It’s much better to just go free,” Hailey agreed.

Kid swiveled his head from the TV to her. He swallowed his bite of pizza with an audible gulp and said, “Are you saying what I think you’re saying?”

“It’s better to go commando, naked, in the skinny,” Hailey said.

“So, you don’t wear…?” he said, trailing off.

“Can’t stand panty lines.” It wasn’t a total lie. She’d run out of clean laundry and wasn’t wearing any underwear today, but if it made Kid suffer as much as she was then she could live with it.

It was Kid’s turn to choke on his beer. Hailey took a self-satisfied bite of pizza. She could feel Kid staring at the back of her jeans.

“Damn,” he said.

“What’s wrong?” she asked.

“I wish Jamie had been right about me.”

“What do you mean?” she asked.

“I wish I could melt things with my eyes,” he said, giving her posterior a dark look.

Hailey dropped her pizza back onto her plate. Very quietly, she said, “You can.”

Kid stared at her for a long moment. Hailey wondered if maybe she’d gone too far. Maybe Kid wasn’t as hot for her as she was for him. Maybe he’d just been letting his guard down and teasing her because now that he had met the kids, he believed in the charity auction. Maybe it had nothing to do with her.

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