Seducing Abby Rhodes by J. D. Mason

Author:J. D. Mason
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: St. Martin's Press

Your Remedy

THANKFULLY, LYDIA PREPARED A MEAL with chicken instead of beef, for Abby’s sake. This house felt different with her in it. Abby had dared to take a step into his world, and all it took was the appearance of a ghost.

When was the last time he’d danced? “I’ll Be Good to You” by the Brothers Johnson wafted through the entire house while he and Abby danced outside on the lanai around the fire pit. Jordan held a beer in one hand and had the other wrapped around Abby’s waist as they swayed back and forth to the rhythm of a beat that was not much older than she was.

“You’re only twelve years older, Jordan,” she’d told him earlier when he’d made mention of the huge age difference between them. “That’s actually kind of perfect since girls usually mature faster than boys.”

Jordan wasn’t sure, but it felt like she’d mildly insulted him.

He couldn’t keep his hands off her. He couldn’t stop staring at her. Abby was a different kind of beautiful. Natural and understated, effortless. The kind that settled into his soul nicely. She listened intently as he told her about the contract he was hoping to win from the government. It was an impressive deal in the making, a fact that wasn’t lost on her.

“I know you’re probably going to have Ph.D.s at your beck and call when you land this deal. But if you ever would like the council of a lowly structural engineer with a master’s in mechanical engineering, I’m your girl.”

“I will keep that in mind,” he responded, smiling. “But I’d rather you be my woman. Not my engineer.”

She blushed, and masterfully glossed over that part about wanting her to be his. “I’m dead serious, Jordan. That kind of stuff makes my heart race and my palms sweat.”

“Is that the only thing that makes your heart race and your palms sweat?” he asked without missing a beat.

Abby sat perched on his lap, straddling and facing him.

“Of course not,” she said after a brief pause, her expression subtly becoming more serious.

He lightly grazed his thumb over the skin of her thigh exposed by the short, white sundress she wore.

“Being with you absolutely makes my heart race and my palms sweat,” she admitted. “But I figured you already knew that.”

He was flattered. “I’d hoped.”

She smiled. “If we had gone to college together, you know that you would never have given me the time of day. Right?”

“Oh, I don’t know about that,” he disagreed.

“Boys like you never did. You, the jock, had girls lined up waiting to get to you. Don’t try to deny it. I know it’s true.”

Jordan sort of shrugged.

“I tutored the jocks. Sometimes, I even wrote their papers for them. For a price, of course.”

“Then chances are our paths would’ve crossed. I needed a ton of tutoring.”

She laughed. “Oh, I don’t believe that. You can’t be dumb and run a corporation.”

“I wasn’t running a corporation in college. I was chasing footballs and girls.” He grinned. “Life was much simpler then.

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