Nobody But You by Julie Kenner

Author:Julie Kenner
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pocket Books

David’s apartment looked even worse than it had the first time she’d come over, though she wasn’t entirely sure how that was possible. “Did a tornado cut through Pasadena and hit only your house?”

He looked at her over the monitor of his computer. “Huh?”

She waved her hand, encompassing the room. “It’s a disaster in here.”

A shadow crossed his face. “Really? I was cleaning it up.”

“Oh.” She wasn’t sure what to say to that. “So I guess it just looks like a wreck because you’re in the middle of organizing everything.”

“Organizing,” he repeated, then frowned. “Yeah. Absolutely. The place’ll look much better once it’s organized.”

Maybe the more prudent course of action was to just let the subject drop. She stood up and paced the room, waiting for him to find the articles he’d mentioned. She’d seen the place before, but she hadn’t really looked at it. Now she had the opportunity to take a peek into David’s psyche and she intended to make the most of it.

Apparently his psyche was a slob, but she’d already figured that out. She maneuvered around the piles of laundry—two points to him for having actually folded some of it—and headed toward the wall behind his desk. “Do you mind?” she asked, tossing the question over her shoulder as she walked.

“Make yourself at home,” he said. “Sorry the computer’s so slow today. I have a dial-up, and it’s taking forever to pull up the page. Finn keeps telling me I need to install some sort of cable modem gizmo, but it’s not exactly high on my priority list.”

“No problem,” she said, his comment reminding her of the man she’d met a few minutes earlier. David’s friend was positively gorgeous—tall and lanky, like a baseball player, with close-cropped midnight black hair and equally dark eyes.

No doubt about it, Finn scored a big fat ten. But while Jacey could certainly appreciate his attributes, Finn didn’t hold anywhere near the same appeal as David, and she wondered why. Both men were easy on the eyes, and at least based on their first meeting, Finn seemed infinitely less quirky. But there was just something about David. Something that tickled her insides. Something indefinable, but undeniably appealing.

Something she really should ignore…

She shivered, her gaze drifting around the room as she forced herself to concentrate on more mundane things, like the mess in David’s apartment. Although, now that he’d mentioned it, there really did seem to be fewer boxes. But the floor was still littered with paperbacks, articles clipped from newspapers, clothes, and quite a few empty Mr. Pibb cans. A bicycle leaned up against the closet door, apparently more useful as a repository for David’s jackets than for transportation or exercise.

Every wall was covered—yellow sticky notes, newspaper clippings, sheets torn from steno pads. And, of course, the more traditional framed photos and posters. The posters in particular caught her attention. Old movie posters of noir classics—The Big Sleep, Double Indemnity, A Kiss Before Dying. The stylized drawings fascinated her, and she wondered how the images would look juxtaposed against a more modern style.

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