Surf, Sea and a Sexy Stranger by Heidi Rice

Author:Heidi Rice
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2010-06-07T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWELVE

MADDY glared at the gloopy mess in her saucepan and felt the snakes in her stomach tangle themselves into giant knots.

Her béchamel had curdled. How could her béchamel have curdled when she’d made it about a billion times before? She pressed her hand to her stomach and took two careful breaths.

Perhaps because her nerves were stretched so tight they were about to snap.

Why on earth had she invited Rye to dinner? It had seemed like such a great idea at the time.

Her hormones had still been fizzy like a bottle of shaken cola and her confidence soaring into the stratosphere at the knowledge that he still wanted her. When he’d made the offer of a no-strings affair and she’d blithely agreed, the endorphin rush had blinded her to all the possible pitfalls.

No strings, no promises meant no expectations. Which was just what she wanted. Why he should want her so much, she had no idea, but she wasn’t about to look that gift horse in the mouth a second time. When was she ever likely to get an offer like this again? And the chance to dynamite herself out of the rut she’d been in for years?

She could avail herself of Rye King’s superstar abilities in bed and spice up her sadly mundane sex life for the next few weeks and all she had to do was enjoy the ride.

It was way past time she put Maddy first for a change. It all made perfect sense. Or so she’d thought at the time.

She’d offered him a home-cooked meal because she loved cooking. It relaxed her. And inviting him to the cottage gave her the home advantage. She’d planned to be nicely mellow and totally in charge of the situation before they jumped each other tonight.

But what she hadn’t counted on was the crows of doubt swooping down and pecking apart her logic once the dizzying rush of lust from their nooner in Phil’s office had cleared.

What if she’d made a catastrophic mistake? Was she really capable of handling a man as overpowering as Ryan King? She had absolutely no experience of the kind of fling he was talking about, while he was clearly an expert at them. And how was overdosing on endorphins on a regular basis going to affect her common sense?

The first crow to appear had been Phil. She’d insisted on finishing her shift, hoping against hope that Phil would be too chivalrous to mention her and Rye’s twenty-minute disappearing act. No such luck. Although Rye hadn’t helped her chances one bit with the deliberately proprietary kiss he’d planted on her lips in front of the whole café—garnering a round of applause from the customers and a scowl from his manager—before he strolled out of the door, the hitch in his stride taking on a definite swagger.

Maddy had nipped off to the kitchen, but Phil had cornered her by the wait station ten minutes later.

‘Maddy, what the hell do you think you’re playing at?’ he’d demanded.

‘I don’t

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