The Rules of Engagement by Ally Blake

Author:Ally Blake
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2012-09-09T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

A DOZEN outfits lay strewn on Caitlyn’s bed; sweet summery dresses, sexy skirts and tops, tracksuits with risqué suggestions embroidered across the backside. She stared at them as though she couldn’t remember what each one was for. Because suddenly she wasn’t sure how she’d got there.

She’d been so angry the day of her dad’s anniversary. With herself. With her mum. With her own fixation on Dax. And then he’d turned up, all gorgeous and imposing and overwhelming, and she’d realised that in letting go of control, in living in the moment, she’d undoubtedly allowed herself to become swept up in him in such a way that had made a deeper impact on her life than she’d ever intended.

In the face of all that mixed emotion, she’d felt so distressed, so confused, so trapped, she’d pushed him away. Or at least she’d tried. And when he’d refused to budge...

She groaned in mortification as she put cold hands to her hot cheeks.

But that was then. And now they were heading off for a dirty weekend. And as weekends went a dirty one was surely the best way to negate the other evening—and the tears, and confessions, and unanticipated tenderness that had come with it. Such tenderness—

Franny bumped the door open with her backside, both hands filled with steaming mugs of coffee. She came to a screeching halt when she got a load of what Caitlyn was wearing.

‘Ah, Cait?’

Caitlyn nodded absent-mindedly, trying desperately to hold onto the image of the skinny jeans and frill-necked top combo she’d just spied in amongst the mess.

Franny’s eyes boggled as she stared at Caitlyn and said, said, ‘Now that’s what I call a wardrobe malfunction.’

Caitlyn looked down at the Daisy Duke cut-offs she’d tried on after finding them on the floor in the back of her cupboard. At some point she’d added fringed cowboy boots and a now skin-tight Little Mermaid T-shirt she’d owned in middle school.

‘Don’t panic,’ Caitlyn said. ‘I’m not wearing this today. I don’t think.’

Franny glanced at Caitlyn’s bedside clock and winced. ‘Twenty minutes from now Dax will be here to pick you up for a weekend of hot sex and goodness knows what else, so why are you tripping down nostalgia lane now?’

Caitlyn slumped backwards onto the only spare corner of her bed and flopped her arms over her eyes. ‘I panicked.’

‘Why? You’ve dressed yourself ably for a number of years now.’

‘Not for a weekend at Dax Bainbridge’s hundred-year-old winery-enveloped, triple-winged, heritage-listed family retreat, I haven’t.’

‘You’ve been Googling, haven’t you?’

‘Like a maniac.’

‘Will his family be there?’

‘God, no! Are you crazy? This is a dirty weekend, remember. Sorbet sex squared.’

‘Pity. That’s like your thing. Mums love you. I’m certain it’s one of the reasons why guys find it so easy to propose to you.’

‘Not all mums,’ Caitlyn muttered, shaking her head to clear away that ominous little thought. ‘And besides, Dax doesn’t have a mum.’

‘Poor Dax. Well, I’m sure whatever family he has will love you instead.’

‘They well might, in the alternate universe in which I ever got to meet them!’

‘Right.

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