Major Attraction by Julie Miller

Author:Julie Miller
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2004-08-13T16:00:00+00:00

9

“I SCREWED UP, TRAVIS. I had sex with her last night.”

“All right, bro!” His little brother would have slapped him a high five if the width of Ethan’s desk wasn’t between them. “I knew my training would pay off. Your methods might be outdated, your pickup lines for dummies approach pretty lame…”

“Gee, thanks.”

“…but something must be working for you.” When he flashed that way-to-go, locker-room smile, Ethan rolled back his chair and stood.

Guilt was a heavy weight for his code of honor to bear. He’d never meant for it to go that far with J.C. The chemistry between them was all well and good—it made the charade more convincing. But he’d intended to be a perfect gentleman for two weeks. He could doff his hat, buy her a nice gift, thank her and walk away. Neither one of them would get hurt. There would be no regrets.

But she’d been so hot, so tight, so damned persuasive. He’d been… “Hell.” He started his inevitable pacing, but spared a daunting glare for his brother, as if this whole mess was his fault. “You’re not helping.”

Travis braced his hands up in surrender. “Hey, I’m just glad to know there’s some real McCormick blood still flowing through your veins.”

“Fine. So I haven’t tarnished the family name. Glad you’re happy. But I didn’t call to brag.” Ethan perched on the corner of his desk and pleaded with the expert. “I need to know how to back this up a notch so it doesn’t happen again.”

“She wasn’t any good?”

She was freaking fantastic. Maybe the year or so he’d sworn off women had… No. He had to be honest here. Josephine C. Gardner had been everything he wanted in a lover. Honest. Funny. Daring. She’d even made dancing a worthwhile risk. She wasn’t afraid to go after what she wanted yet was vulnerable all at the same time. She was a healthy handful of temptation with plenty of curves and attitude to grab on to. And those lips. And those lips. Hell.

Travis’s knowing grin swam back into focus. “Oh. She was that good.”

Ethan launched himself to his feet and resumed his pacing. “It wasn’t supposed to happen. This isn’t the right time to indulge any underused body parts. I enlisted her for two weeks to impress Craddock. Period.”

“Did she?”

“Big time.”

“She sounds like a keeper to me. I don’t see a problem.” Travis adjusted the rolled-up sleeves of his camouflage shirt around his biceps and stood. “My team’s running a rescue drill this afternoon. I could have gone in early to prep for it. I don’t understand why I’m here, answering your panicked, crack-of-dawn phone call—”

Ethan stopped. “I wasn’t panicked.”

Mimicking him in a tone that, minus the cusswords, sounded annoyingly familiar, Travis replayed the call. “‘Can you stop by? We need to talk about this woman plan of yours.”’ He grabbed his cap and shrugged. “My God, Ethan. Who calls picking up chicks a ‘woman plan’? I think you’re analyzing this thing way too much.”

“J.C. isn’t just some chick.

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