Now You See Me by Kris Fletcher

Author:Kris Fletcher [Fletcher, Kris]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2013-12-05T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TEN

LYDDIE WAS VAGUELY AWARE that Nadine had said goodbye and slipped out. But mostly, now that she’d made her decision, all she could focus on was J.T., in all his glorious flesh.

She moved fast through the kitchen, not allowing herself to think. She’d done nothing but think for too long now. It was time to start doing.

She saw his surprise at her approach, saw the way it quickly shifted into a gut-melting grin of welcome when she opened the door, and from the top of her head to the tip of her quivering toes, she knew that if she could get up the nerve to go through with this, she would end up with the best how-I-spent-my-summer-vacation essay ever.

He stepped closer. “How are you doing?”

“Holding on. You?”

“Par for the course.” He shrugged. The movement hiked his T-shirt higher. He was in the bike shorts again, a second skin that hugged every dip, every line, every God-knows-where-that-leads curve. Any last doubts were pushed aside by a drive far more primal.

“I’m sorry about what happened this afternoon.” She forced her gaze back to his face, gauging his reaction by the narrowing of his eyes, the twist of his lips.

“You didn’t do anything wrong.”

“It’s my place. Anything that happens here is ultimately my responsibility.”

He crossed his arms and gave her the half smile she already knew meant he was in full tease mode. “So, if I told you I had the time of my life, would you take responsibility for that, too?”

“No. But I would say you were a damned good liar.”

His laugh was low and husky, intimate and enticing. Lust erupted within her, fast and hot and urgent. Every inch of her skin itched to press against him. She wanted to taste his lips and tangle her feet with his and inhale the scent of afterglow off his chest. She wanted to whimper and moan and lose herself in the overpowering urge to move closer, harder, faster. She wanted to feel alive in every pore, every molecule.

And then she wanted to laugh and whisper and hold him tight until it started all over again.

She pointed to the briefcase resting by his feet. “You have some papers for me?”

“Uh...papers. Right.”

He seemed awfully distracted for someone who was supposed to be here for a business meeting. She hoisted herself onto the corner of her desk, putting herself level with his shoulder, and smiled. “You know. The papers you were reading before Ted went all Neanderthal on us.”

“Oh. Those.” A wry smile quirked the corner of his mouth. “Would you believe I don’t remember a thing I read?”

Simple words. Innocent, even. But the way his voice dropped when he said them made her ever more certain that she wasn’t alone in this.

It had been a long time since Lyddie played this game, but she remembered the next line. “How come? Were you preoccupied?”

“You could say that.”

“Couldn’t wait to see if Ted could speak without Jillian’s hand stuck up his...back?”

He stared for a second, then burst into laughter, richer and deeper than the strongest Colombian.

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