Nice Girl to Love: The Complete Collection, Vol 1-3 by Duke Violet

Author:Duke, Violet [Duke, Violet]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Anthologies, Adult, Contemporary, Romance
Amazon: B00EH8IMOC
Goodreads: 56507030
Published: 2013-07-30T07:00:00+00:00

A VERY THOROUGH, VERY COLD shower later, Brian went out to the kitchen and swiftly executed phase one of Operation Romance Abby, finishing with time to spare. Luckily, she was taking a pretty long time in the shower. Thinking about what she could possibly be doing in there, however, was rapidly undoing the effects of his cold shower.

Down boy. He shifted his towel a bit.

“Hey.”

Brian looked up from the cup of coffee he’d made himself and saw Abby shuffling into the room looking as sweet as ever in a pair of his old, baggy sweats. “Hey yourself, cutie.” He walked over to give her a quick kiss before she could object, and was pleased to note her look of disappointment when he pulled back.

Progress.

Smiling, he leaned against the back of the sofa and sipped his coffee silently. The harder Abby avoided looking at him below the neck, the bigger his smile got.

“So…where’s Skylar?” Abby glanced at the wall clock behind him. “It’s almost five.”

“I wasn’t sure how long my parent-teacher conference was going to go today so I asked my mom to pick up Skylar after school and drive her over to Connor’s to wait out the storm. Even though it was still early, I didn’t want her walking in this weather.”

He saw Abby’s surprised, almost hurt expression and clarified gently, “I didn’t know what you had planned this afternoon, and I didn’t think you’d want to drop Skylar off at Connor’s.”

“Oh.” She nodded.

When she winced as she shifted the weight on her feet, alarmed, he shot over to her. “You’re injured.”

“Just a tweaked ankle and a minor scrape, no biggie.”

“Babe, there are a lot of fungi and other nasty things floating around during these dust storms. Valley Fever isn’t the only thing you can catch from the spores in the flying debris. Get over to the couch. Let me check out your cuts.”

Raiding her medicine cabinet for supplies, and then her freezer for some frozen veggies for her ankle, he returned and rolled her sweat pants up her leg, hissing with every new bit of bloody skin he revealed. The angry red gouges in her kneecap had his protective alpha instincts going crazy. “You should’ve called me, Abby. I would have dropped everything and been right over.” For chrissakes, he’d almost had a stroke when he’d happened by to check on her, only to see her splayed across the roof with nothing more than a cotton hoodie protecting her from the elements. “I still can’t believe you were up on the roof at all, let alone in the middle of a storm.”

When she pouted stubbornly, he locked his jaw. Loving someone as fiercely independent as Abby was likely going to take years off his life. “And your injuries aren’t that minor,” he continued scolding, because he just couldn’t stop. Gingerly, he applied peroxide over the large strawberry that covered her entire left knee. “You can’t be so cavalier about wounds like this after a dust storm.”

“I wasn’t; I scrubbed it out really well in the shower,” she defended.

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