Love Her Madly by Christie Ridgway

Author:Christie Ridgway [Ridgway, Christie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Literature & Fiction, Genre Fiction, Family Saga, Contemporary, Sagas, Romance, Sexy, Alpha Male
Amazon: B00NN2FDLI
Barnesnoble: B00NN2FDLI
Goodreads: 23250123
Publisher: Christie Ridgway
Published: 2014-09-23T04:00:00+00:00

Good smells greeted Bing at the front door of the Alessio home. He rang the bell, then knocked, but nobody came to the door. The loud noise of combined voices and laughter seeping from the other side was the likely explanation.

Suddenly the door swung open and a body nearly collided with his. Alexa’s cousin Kyle skidded to a halt. “Hey.” He clapped Bing on the shoulder. “Sorry about that. I’m out for more ice.”

Bing lifted his hands. One held a bottle of red wine. In the other was a ten-pound bag of cubed ice.

The other man grinned. “How’d you know?”

“Hit upon it years ago. If you come with these two items, you’ll be welcomed as a guest even if you’re crashing the party.”

“Filing it away, man,” Kyle said, then turned back into the house. “This way. Everyone will be happy to see you.”

Unsure if that would include Alexa, Bing followed. He was immediately swallowed by the crowd and he had to sidestep and sidewind his way toward the kitchen where he assumed he’d find the hostess.

“Bing,” Alexa’s mother said in pleased tones when she caught sight of him. “You smart boy,” she added, de-boozing and de-icing him. They both were passed off to a dark-haired kid who looked about fourteen. “Give these to Grandpa,” she directed. “He’s out on the patio.”

The boy moved in the right direction but Bing wondered if he’d follow the instructions. At that age, if someone had handed him anything stronger than cough medicine, he would have squirreled it away for private consumption.

“Are you all right?” Patricia Alessio asked, a quizzical expression on her face.

“Yeah. Great.” Recalling his debauched past wouldn’t send out stand-up guy vibes. “Is there something I can do to help?”

She turned away to stir a sauce on the stove that smelled so good his stomach started to rumble. At the sound, she threw a smile over her shoulder. “Go out to the patio. All sorts of things out there for hungry men to eat.”

He grinned. “Well, since you mentioned it…” The sliding glass door to the back yard slid open easily. Another crowd was gathered there and in a shift of it, he saw her.

All sorts of things out there for hungry men to eat.

Where the hell did Alexa get those dresses? This one was a shade less golden than her skin, with black embroidery hemming the short sleeves and around the low-but-not-too neckline. It went halfway between her knees and her ankles and it fluttered in the breeze. She hadn’t seen him yet.

Her name was called and she spun, and he could see there was more embroidery on the back of the dress, a large cut-out that showed her smooth skin…and that her hair was twisted in a casual knot just above the nape of her neck.

Usually she wore her hair down. He’d seen it in pony tails when she ran. But this style was more sophisticated. Elegant. It wasn’t the Lex he knew.

It wasn’t the Lex who he’d stripped, touched, kissed.

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