The Off-Limits Rule by Sarah Adams

Author:Sarah Adams [Adams, Sarah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2024-10-02T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 19

Lucy

Okay, why did I let Cooper talk me into this dress? I’m racing up the sidewalk toward the restaurant, wearing my old red dress that feels about two sizes too small for me now, my boobs bouncing up and down, threatening to burst from the scooped neckline, and tripping over the much-too-high heels strapped to my feet. Did I mention I haven’t worn heels in at least four years?

Yeah. Terrible idea.

I think I was still buzzing from whatever that moment with Cooper was when I left the house. One good look at me, however, and Ethan is going to get the wrong idea. Now, granted, I haven’t worn anything other than some sort of T-shirt and jeans or leggings combo in the last several years, so I might be exaggerating, but I don’t think so.

I step inside the fancy restaurant feeling like the PG-13 version of Cinderella—if her boobs were pushed up to her throat and her dress was threatening to burst at the seams. Seriously, if I make one wrong move, this whole thing is going to explode like a confetti cannon. It was a good thing Cooper zipped me up in it, because I never would have been able to achieve it on my own. I’m already planning on cutting myself out of it when I get home.

“Lucy?” a male voice sounds from behind me, and I turn to find a good-looking man, with nice white teeth and all his hair, smiling at me. He looks very businessy in his navy suit and tie, but that’s not a bad thing. In fact, he looks great—like, if I’d never met Cooper, this guy would probably make me turn my head if I passed him in the grocery store.

Ugh. And there’s the problem. Cooper…he’s infiltrated my mind. Weaseled his Baywatch body and dazzling smile into my subconscious and bench-pressed the standard I used to measure men against.

“Yes, and you must be Ethan?” I say, extending my hand in his direction.

He takes it, and his smile deepens as he does a brief, polite scan of my body. Do not blush, Lucy. This dress is too tight to add any extra heat.

“Wow,” says Ethan, with a tone of reverence I was not expecting. He reestablishes eye contact with me and shakes his head lightly. “You look gorgeous.” He says it in a way that has me standing a little taller. Maybe this dress doesn’t look so obscene on me after all.

“Thank you. It’s surprising that I’m not six foot and burly like my brother, right?”

He takes on a sheepish look. “I wasn’t going to bring it up, but I’ll admit I was a little nervous when he mentioned I should ask out his sister without showing me a picture. You never know how closely siblings will resemble one another.”

We both chuckle lightly at this, and I’m surprised by how quickly first date etiquette returns to me. Ha ha, why yes, Ethan, I am sophisticated and definitely did not eat a string cheese and fruit snacks on the way over here.

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