The Seducer by Jule McBride

Author:Jule McBride
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2013-12-15T00:00:00+00:00

6

HE’D NEVER TOLD HER his name. Pansy knotted a green silk bathrobe three days later, yawning as she entered the kitchen, the limbs of her well-loved body feeling as loose as untied Christmas ribbons. He’d come to her for the past three nights, and every night was better than the last. Still, she was beyond frustrated with herself. Why hadn’t she managed to learn more about him? A few nights ago, she’d been straddling him, feeling confident he was right where she wanted him, and then suddenly he’d turned the tables, reversed their positions and trapped her beneath him.

“Must have been some dream,” said Lily.

Hardly a dream. Every blessed second of these past few nights had been as real as it gets. Fighting the heated flush rising on her cheeks, Pansy glanced at her sister, who was clad in a bikini from an early morning swim. Seated at the table with a towel draped around her waist, Lily was shoveling down spoonfuls of granola and rapidly jotting on a sheet of expensive note-paper she’d probably gotten as a sample for possible sale in her store.

“Sit,” commanded Vi. Two hands settled on Pansy’s shoulders and pressed her into a chair. “I’ll get your cereal. You look like hell.”

“Gee, thanks,” said Pansy dryly, sending Vi, who was dressed for work in her mail carrier’s uniform, a long, sideways glance.

“Tousled hell,” Lily clarified, eyeing her sister curiously. “What’s going on? You’ve looked like this for days, Pansy. Was there someone here last night we don’t know about?”

“You should talk,” Pansy returned, her voice hoarse from lack of sleep. “I could swear I heard Lou Fairchild’s car roar out of the driveway early this morning.”

Lily smirked. “He was gone by midnight, if you must know.”

“One,” corrected Vi.

“She only knows this,” assured Lily, “because Garth Garrison was still here.”

Pansy chuckled. “I thought you hated him, Vi.”

“I do,” returned Vi loftily, “but I intend to get my hands on that lottery money.” Her voice hitched with excitement as she continued. “You know, I really do think he won. He’s been talking about buying a second home, a condo in Manhattan, and he’s pricing sailboats.”

“Even without a lottery win, that man’s probably loaded,” said Lily. “Everybody knows he can afford better than that tumbledown shack he calls home, so that doesn’t mean anything. Besides, Lou came right out and informed me that he’s got a huge secret he wants to share with me. Huge. That was the word he used. He says he’s just not ready to tell me about it yet.”

“He’s probably afraid to announce he’s got the hots for you,” said Vi. “Although the rest of us noted the obvious long ago.”

“Aren’t you observant,” Lily returned dryly.

“Very,” assured Vi.

Pansy considered telling her sisters neither man had won, but she hated to throw a wet blanket over their manhunt. She hadn’t seen her sisters this happy about their prospects for years. Besides, she couldn’t prove her point without revealing her indiscreet nighttime trysts with a stranger, something that would turn Lily and Vi into protective mothering hens.

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