The Pleasure Principle by Kimberly Raye

Author:Kimberly Raye
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2001-02-20T23:00:00+00:00

“COME AND SHARE your misery.” Kasey’s eyes lifted from the neon pink flyer. “I don’t know much about advertising, but this doesn’t exactly make the Pink Cadillac sound like the happening place to be on a Saturday night.”

“The book I’m reading says to play off emotion and that’s what I’m doing. I’m thinking, if Dottie and Trina—both football widows—like to come in to eat snacks, toss down a few brews and share war stories, some of the other women in town might want to join in also. See, these ladies aren’t out to have a good time. They’re interested in a sympathetic ear. A little friendly advice. Some understanding. That’s what this flyer is all about. It calls to those lonely hearts in need of kinship, and that’s what the Pink Cadillac is all about.”

“Please don’t tell me you’re going to sing the theme from Cheers right now. After the night I had—” Kasey touched her head “—I don’t think I could take it.”

Eden couldn’t stifle her grin. “Actually, I thought we could do a few verses of ‘Kumbaya.’”

“You’re trying to torture me, aren’t you?”

“The hangover is doing that. I’m just trying to make you see that you don’t have to compete with Laura Winchell on everything. Who cares if she can drink six hurricanes and still recite her ABC’s? You don’t have to follow suit.”

“It wasn’t as if I had anything better to do. I didn’t have a date with the hottest cowboy in Cadillac.”

“For the last time, it wasn’t a date, and Brady Weston isn’t a cowboy.” Once upon a time he’d been the classic hero wearing the white Stetson and riding the white horse, but no more. He’d changed, despite the fact that he’d given her flowers and gone to all the trouble of renting a sexy video just to turn her on.

It had all been part of the game. The seduction.

The thing of it was, no man had ever gone to so much trouble to seduce Eden. Because of her reputation, men assumed she was like a light switch. One flick of a button and she was blazing hot. No muss. No fuss. No foreplay.

Certainly not three hours of it.

So? The end result had been the same. Sex. Granted, it had been outstanding sex, but the big S nonetheless. And now it was over and done with.

“Are you okay?” Kasey’s voice pushed into her thoughts. “You look flushed.”

“It’s hot in here.”

“We’re in the refrigerator.”

“It’s still hot in here.”

“It’s sixty degrees.”

“It’s hot. Would you stop changing the subject. When are you going to learn that you don’t have to drink seven hurricanes to prove your superiority?”

“It was seven and a quarter, and it’s the principle of the thing. Laura thinks she’s so much better than me. She always has.”

“That’s just her opinion.”

“Her and her dozen or so friends down at the Cut-n-Curl.”

“It shouldn’t matter what those old biddies think.”

Kasey’s eyebrows lifted. “Excuse me. This from the woman who puts her slinkiest dress on to go to church just so she can set those very same biddie’s tongues to wagging?”

“That’s different.

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