Still the One by Christie Ridgway

Author:Christie Ridgway [Ridgway, Christie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781460375112
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 1992-10-14T16:00:00+00:00

Emily sat across from Will at his kitchen table, her hair damp, her feet bare, her body wrapped in his robe. Resting her chin on her hand and her elbow beside the glass of wine he’d poured her, she watched him move around the kitchen.

He sent her a wry look as he slid a frozen pizza into the oven. “I’m sorry to say it’s Italian two nights in a row and nothing as special as the spaghetti you made yesterday. It was our staple Tuesday-and-Thursday dinners when I was raising the kids and I can’t seem to break myself out of the habit of buying and eating them.”

Emily waved off his apology, amused by the way that he spoke of his brothers and sisters as “the kids.” Okay, he could have called them “the crocodiles” and she would still have been smiling. Sex with Will seemed to put her in a good mood.

She’d had sex before, of course. And she could remember vividly enough how awkward it could be after the first encounter with a man. But this was Will. He’d known her before she could fill out a bathing suit. Before she’d started shaving her legs. When she thought the height of devotion was throwing pine cones at the object of her affection.

Will had given her her first kiss and it only made sense that he’d also give her her first stress-free, after-sex experience.

He paused to glance at her again after pulling a bagged salad out of his refrigerator. “You okay? You’re quiet, but you look…”

“Fine,” she told him, sipping at the red wine and letting it warm her already-warm insides. “I’m just fine.”

She spoke the truth. It seemed that the release of the sexual tension simmering between herself and Will had released other tension as well. The last couple of years she’d been in knots, worrying about her mother’s failing health and then wondering where she was going in her own life.

Not to mention Izzy’s exhortation to get out there and live a little instead of turning to books in order to satisfy her need for emotional experiences. So she’d finally listened, and the result was spectacular…and the aftereffects weren’t bad either. There was the residual warmth of sexual pleasure humming through her and the complete lack of need on her part to figure out where she and Will would go next.

She already knew that he wasn’t looking for anything serious or long-term, so she didn’t have to mine every moment for meaning or intention. She could just sip the wine and sniff the smell of pizza baking and be as happy as she’d be after getting a good haircut and blow-out or a particularly relaxing facial.

Yes. She could look at sex like a pleasant sort of personal grooming experience.

Okay, not that she’d tell Will that, because it wasn’t quite right, but the point of view gave her just the perfect attitude as she shared the pizza with Will and then dressed to go home.

He started to make a polite noise about her staying over, but she had to work the next day and so did he.

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