My Charming Rival (Stars In Their Eyes Duet Book 1) by Lauren Blakely

Author:Lauren Blakely [Blakely, Lauren]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lauren Blakely Books
Published: 2014-10-08T18:30:00+00:00

11

Jess

I straightened my spine. He was spot-on. He’d read me like an open book left on the coffee table just for him.

Not wanting to admit he was right, I shook my head. “No. I do it myself to save money,” I said, because I’d rather play the money card than the uptight-in-public card. Besides, I was the observer. I wasn’t the observed. Even though I didn’t warrant being the subject of any shot, I didn’t want to even take the chance that someone might see me with my shoes off, or with my mouth open, or with my guard down. Avoiding a potential Nick Balloons moment of any sort was an abiding goal in my life.

“Ah, gotcha,” William said, and nodded. He seemed as if he understood. “Let me see those hands, then.”

“My hands?” I asked, as the manicurist patted the white towel on the edge of the foot tub, a sign for William to place his foot there for drying. He did as instructed, reining in a laugh as she patted his foot down, then began filing his toenails.

“Yes, your hands, Jess. We’re in a nail salon. It’s totally acceptable.”

I held out my right hand, and he moved my fingers so they touched his palm, sending tingles down my spine. He pretended to inspect my nails closely. I pretended I didn’t care that his hands were on me. My body said otherwise, though, as a shiver of want rolled through me. I made a note to smack some sense into myself tonight, because right now sense had vacated. It had a way of doing that when William got close to me.

“Navy blue,” he said, in his low and sexy voice that left an imprint of longing inside me.

“Navy blue what?”

“If I’d have picked out a color for you, I’d have picked navy blue. To go with your eyes. They’re dark blue,” he said, looking at me.

If I were in a movie, if I were that kind of a girl who was soft and sweet and eager, I’d gasp and say you noticed. Then he’d nod once and whisper I notice everything about you.

Instead, I swallowed the dry knot in my throat.

“Dark blue is my favorite color,” he said softly, then started to slide his fingers through mine. I never knew holding hands could be such a turn-on. But as he laced his fingers through mine, flesh against flesh, my skin sizzled with the first sparks of a darker, deeper desire.

My eyes floated closed for the briefest of seconds. This had to stop. I was dangerously close to soaring away on a cloud of borderline lust. I was in a nail salon of all places. I opened my eyes, desperate to grab hold of some kind of witty comeback. But anything and everything fell through my fingers with the way his dark eyes were hooked on me. I didn’t trust William as far as I could throw him, and seeing as I wasn’t terribly good at throwing guys, that wasn’t very much or very far.

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