Strike Zone by Kate Angell

Author:Kate Angell
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: ebook, book
Publisher: 0
Published: 2008-03-09T12:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

“You ready for dinner and some shopping?” Sloan McCaffrey asked Eve Hannah when he arrived at Addie’s condominium.

“You have a razor? A clean shirt?” she retorted, her nose in the air.

He scrubbed his knuckles along his jaw. A week’s worth of stubble shouldn’t offend her. Only if he kissed her would he leave whisker burn. His lips certainly weren’t going to touch the pinched line of her mouth.

Just because she looked all tailored and tight-assed, that didn’t mean he had to be equally stuffy. So what if his gray T-shirt had a few wrinkles? It was the cleanest one he had just now. There were no tears or sweat stains. He’d showered, put on deodorant. It was as good as it was going to get before he did some laundry.

Eye-to-eye with Eve on the front stoop, he wished he hadn’t bought her a gift. He now regretted the impulse buy. His last image of Eve at Addie’s birthday party had been of her doing the Bunny Hop. She’d been in the lead, and a blind man couldn’t have missed the soft bounce of her breasts.

She’d been one hot bunny.

His afternoon at Toys for Tots had inspired him to buy her a stuffed animal. What he’d thought might be humorous then didn’t seem so funny now. When he produced the yellow duck from behind his back and teasingly quacked, Eve’s mood turned foul.

“Childish,” she said coolly as she set it on a plant stand just inside the door.

“It’s good to feel like a kid on occasion,” Sloan returned. “It’s hell playing grown-up all the time.”

“Especially when you don’t play it well.”

She was hostile. “Loosen up a little. It’s our second date.”

“We never had a first.”

“Addie’s birthday marked us as a couple.”

She rolled her eyes. “In your dreams.”

He had dreamed about Eve. Twice. Both times she’d crawled into his bed, buck naked and wild. Sadly, the real Eve was nothing like his dream lover. She didn’t know how to have fun.

He’d wanted to show her a good time. “You’re an artist and like paint. There’s an indoor paintball park at Riverside Mall—Master Blasters. While Addie and her friends shop, I thought we’d go a round.”

He’d like nothing better than to blast her with a paintball gun. Get down and dirty and chase her around the course.

“I paint with oils, using a palette and sable brushes,” she said stiffly. “I don’t blast a canvas with a splatter gun.”

“If you win, no more dates. If I win, we go on a third.”

She was slow to nod. “Fair enough. You’re on.”

He was suddenly charged. Hunting down Eve held real appeal.

“Hello, Sloan.” Addie greeted him warmly as she and her seven friends came down the condo’s hallway—six women and one man. After the introductions, the group filed out to the van.

At the curb, Addie suggested Eve ride up front beside Sloan. Her suggestion was met with a negative shake of Eve’s head. Eve climbed to the rear of the van, ending up on the backseat beside Edwin Sweeney, Mr.

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