Mad About the Doctor by Carol Marinelli

Author:Carol Marinelli
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Mills & Boon Special Release
Published: 2017-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

ROXIE sent him packing, using her minuscule shower as her excuse. Truly, she’d just needed to breathe. No, she hadn’t slept with Jake, because Jake had never turned her on to the point that she was a writhing, panting, incoherent mess of sensation—as she’d just been on her cold, hard floor. She couldn’t believe she’d let Gabe do all that boundary-breaking intimate stuff. Or that she’d done it to him first. Or that she’d liked it so much she was hot again already. But she was hanging onto this new-found audacity. This was fun—so long as she could keep it all within her control. And her flight instinct told her that meant maintaining some distance.

She pulled on some clothes and realised she was hungry for food. She snuck down the stairs to get some greens to add to her dinner. He was on the deck, sticking his knife into a giant steak. Masses of potatoes encircled it. He was clearly both carbo-loading and replenishing muscle. That would be useful—later—when she was ready to deal with him some more.

Gabe swallowed a smile at the dirty look she gave his dinner, but she said nothing. It amused him that she’d had no idea of what his name meant. It really was the reason so many of those dancers had set their sights on him rather than a rugby boy. His name—and family—was synonymous with farming wealth. So she was wrong about the sex-stud thing, and there were a few more things it wouldn’t do her any harm to learn about him. Except she didn’t seem to be interested in doing anything with him but the salacious. But he planned to change that.

‘Why not sit here to have your dinner?’ he asked casually. ‘You can’t sit at your table up there with all that furniture and crap crammed around it. Have it down here. I promise I won’t bite.’ It was more a dare than an invitation.

She didn’t answer immediately. Interesting how at ease she was with him when they were physical, and how uncomfortable she was at the thought of spending more simple, sex-free time with him. Was she actually shy? That didn’t make sense when she’d been nothing but smart’n’sassy and strong from word go. Assertive beyond belief. He thought about it more carefully—about how she’d hung on the edge of the group of dancers at the after-practice drinks, how she’d hidden in the dark instead of confiding to anyone about her nerves before the game, how she lived behind a giant hedge no one would be mad enough to fight through. Suddenly, the idea of her being shy made more sense than anything.

‘I’m nearly done anyway.’ He tried to make it easier for her.

She shrugged. ‘I have to get the rest of it.’

‘So go get it,’ he said, as if he didn’t care. Wished he didn’t care half as much as he feared he could.

Three minutes later she perched on the edge of the seat opposite his, her plate full of rabbit food.

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