Sleeping With Beauty by Donna Kauffman

Author:Donna Kauffman [Kauffman, Donna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Contemporary, Adult
ISBN: 055338306X
Publisher: Bantam
Published: 2005-01-01T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18

The autumn night air felt lovely, and as Jason guided her to the quiet, unpopulated end of the terrace, she worked hard to stay calm and collected.

Having given up formulating the ultimate put-down, she could focus on other, more important things. Don’t blow it now. Say something clever. Do that sexy hair flip. Entice him with your perfectly modulated laugh.

She hadn’t exactly mastered that last one. Last two. Okay, so she couldn’t do any of them. But she couldn’t stop wishing she could. This was her moment. Finally, all the stars were lining up just right for Lucy Harper. And if she was really lucky, she was going to get kissed beneath every single one of them.

Every rule that Vivian had taught her rolled through her mind in a hopeless jumble. All she could think about was the way the palm of his hand had slid to that spot, right at the center of her lower back. So gentle, but so strong. His step was easy, but sure. Lucy swore she felt the tension spiking between them the farther they drifted away from the terrace tables to a quiet spot by the railing. Unable to stand the suspense a moment longer, she turned to tell him—something. Anything. Now that she was finally here, she couldn’t wait a second longer to reach the moment she’d waited for her entire life.

She was saved from whatever moment-ruining thing she might have said when, at the exact same moment, Jason pulled her into his arms. Again, their thoughts were as one! Her head tipped back, his bent down. Their eyes met for a split second, then hers drifted shut as his mouth descended to hers, ending in a kiss that could only be described as fairy-tale magical.

His lips were warm and firm. His kiss confident, if not exactly bold. She didn’t care. Jason Prescott was kissing her! And he’d initiated everything! She hadn’t had to flip her perfectly straightened hair, bat one lengthened and separated eyelash, or laugh at any of his jokes, in a well-modulated tone or not.

Her fingers slid up his chest, sinking into the delicious bunching of muscle at his shoulders. She tilted her head and was just debating on whether she should open her mouth—just a little, nothing too forward or desperate—to let him know she’d be okay with a deeper kiss, when he broke contact and lifted his head.

She blinked her eyes open, but nothing seemed to want to come into focus. Was the world spinning? Or was it just her?

“Wow.”

Had she blurted that out? She quickly tried to force her scattered thoughts and emotions into some semblance of normalcy. Ha. Fat chance. She’d just been kissed senseless by Jason Prescott. Surely she was allowed a kind of stunned “wow.”

Except she was pretty sure that “wow” had been uttered in a distinctly deeper voice. Which meant . . . She blinked again, and her heart pounded even more furiously. She finally brought Jason’s smiling face into focus, and though it was indulgently smug to even think it, she could swear he looked a little stunned.

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