New Leaf by Catherine Anderson

Author:Catherine Anderson
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2015-11-11T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

Over the next week, Barney and Taffeta went out on the town every night, pretending to be wildly in love with each other. Barney called it “Doing the hootchy-kootchy act.” Only Taffeta no longer wanted it to be only an act, so she did everything she possibly could, and at every opportunity, to turn him on.

At Dizzy’s Roundtable, Barney ordered bread pudding with bourbon sauce for dessert. Recalling the morning that he’d sucked cream horn filling from her finger and how sexy that had been, Taffeta decided to try that tactic herself. She eyed his plate, deliberately dimpled a cheek, and asked, “May I have a tiny taste of the bourbon sauce? I’ve never tried it.”

Barney started to reach for her spoon, but Taffeta forestalled him with “No, no. Give me a taste with your finger.” Lowering her voice, she added, “It’ll look so much more convincing that way. Don’t you think?”

He shrugged and dipped his forefinger in the sauce. “You better hope my hands are clean.”

Taffeta giggled. “What are a few germs between lovers?” She leaned across the small table for two, clasped his broad wrist, and guided his fingertip to her mouth. No way was she going to just suck the sauce off. Oh no. She was going to lick it off, and then she’d suck his skin clean. Oh yeah. If he already wanted her, that would send his blood pressure rocketing clear off the chart. “Oo-oo-oh. Mmm-mm-mm.” She daintily circled his fingertip with her tongue. “That is so good it’s almost orgasmic.”

She felt his arm tense. “Taffy, people are staring.”

She winked at him. “That’s the whole idea, isn’t it? To convince them we’re madly in love?” She licked his finger again and moaned. “Oh my God. How fabulous can it get?” She met his startled and suddenly glassy gaze. “How am I doing with the act?” she whispered.

“Pretty damned good.” His voice had gone gravelly and thick. “But I—”

Taffeta interrupted him with “Oh, that’s a relief. I’m such a lousy actress.”

When she released her hold on Barney’s wrist, he looked as if he’d just been shocked with high-voltage electricity.

“That bread pudding and sauce is so divine. The next time we come here, to heck with having plain old cheesecake for dessert.”

Taffeta picked up her linen napkin, but instead of dabbing her mouth with it, she used the tip of her tongue to clean her lips, even though absolutely none of the sauce still clung to them. She glanced up to find Barney’s gaze riveted to her mouth. She’d gotten to him, big-time. She just knew she had, and she’d only just started to play this game. Before much longer, she would have this man in her bed, making passionate love to her. She would. He could stuff his blasted honorable streak under a pillow.

My turn, she thought. It wasn’t that she didn’t admire Barney for sticking to his principles. Of course she did. But how could she be sure she’d ever again meet another man

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