The Hinky Velvet Chair by Jennifer Stevenson

Author:Jennifer Stevenson [Stevenson, Jennifer]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: humor, hinky, Jennifer Stevenson, romance
Publisher: Book View Cafe
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nineteen

“I pennied us in.”

“Excuse me?”

“Didn’t you do that in college? Tons of fun. You stick a penny in the door crack and it won’t open.”

She was touched. “That was thoughtful. Thank you.”

They didn’t say anything for a minute. This is so awkward.

“Now I’m having performance anxiety,” she said.

“You can’t expect me to do all the work here. You’re the one who insists—”

“I know, I know!”

“I’d seduce you in a New York minute, if it was my idea.”

“Well, it wasn’t my idea to go to your room two nights ago!” she burst out and then bit her lip. “I mean,” she said more quietly, “it wasn’t. I was so drunk I couldn’t think straight.” She considered saying, And I thought you were taking me to my room, but decided it wasn’t true.

He said, “Okay, you’re right, I made a mistake there. I had this foolish plan to, I dunno, break the ice between us. Get you to loosen up a little.”

“I do not need to get any looser,” she stated.

He looked at her and she turned her head warily to meet his eyes. In a gentle tone he said, “You can get tense on the job.”

“That’s because it’s a job, not a con or a game or a—”

He said hastily, “But I saw how wrong I was when you explained it. So I want to stay your partner.”

He didn’t say any more. She digested this. He’s not pushing for sex. He wants to stick with me.

That felt weird. Weird, but good.

“Is that why you’re... not helping me here?”

“I’ll help you. I want to help you.” He said with quiet sincerity, “I just don’t want to wreck our working relationship.”

She drew a deep, shaky breath. “Okay. Here’s the thing. Once you can tell Randy’s starting to, um, manifest, would you be willing to go outside and wait til we’re done? He’s not, like, solid, like, fully in this world, until I, um. But maybe you can tell before, um. Because you don’t like when he’s between us, anyway, right?”

“Sure. I wouldn’t want to be in the way,” he said in a saintly boy-next-door voice.

She squeezed his hand. “Thanks, buddy.”

Then he smiled.

“You booger! You are so yanking on me!” She dove at him and stuck wriggling fingers into his armpits.

He squirmed and ducked his head. “Hey! Quit!” He tried to cover his armpits with his hands.

“You’re conning me and yanking on me and messing with my head!” When he tried to turn on his belly she threw a leg over him and pinned him between her thighs, going for his stomach, his sides, and the backs of his ears.

“I’m very ticklish! Help! Help, I’m being assaulted!”

“Shut up, do you want to get caught?” she said, laughing.

“Help!”

His belly was all muscle, which made it a lot easier to tickle him, and she threw herself down on him and stopped his mouth with hers. Those big poochy lips met her halfway. He stopped protecting his armpits and put his hands on either side of

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