Three Down the Aisle by Sherryl Woods

Author:Sherryl Woods [Woods, Sherryl]
Format: epub
Published: 2010-12-21T08:00:00+00:00

"So you say."

"Do you doubt me?"

"Intellectually, I think you believe that."

"I do believe it," she said emphatically.

"Then you obviously have no idea how men's minds work. Tell us to stay away and all we want is the opposite."

She regarded him incredulously. "But that's just perverse," she said.

"True, but it's a fact of life."

"So now you want to have sex, even though we both know it's a terrible idea?"

He grinned. "Pretty much."

"It's not going to happen," she declared.

His grin spread. "Is that a challenge? Oh, boy, now you're really making it interesting."

Melanie stared at him, trying to fight the sudden desire to take her rake to him. "You're just tormenting me," she accused, aware that now the idea of sex was firmly planted in her head, too. "You're getting some kind of kick out of watching me squirm."

"I think you've got that backward. You're the one doing the tormenting. This is verbal foreplay, darlin'."

Shocked that he could have leaped to such a conclusion, she snapped, "Don't you foreplay me, Mr. Mike-

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lewski. Right this second I wouldn't get anywhere near you if you were the last man on the planet."

He laughed. "Uh-oh, now you've done it. You've questioned my ability to change your mind." He took a step toward her. "Want me to see how quickly I can prove you wrong?"

Melanie backed up, her pulse humming with something that felt a lot more like anticipation than anxiety. Was this the outcome she'd subconsciously been after? Surely not.

"No, I most certainly do not." Liar, liar, liar. The voice in her head was raising quite a din.

His gaze never left her face. "You sure?"

"Very sure," she declared, though some traitorous part of her was all but shouting that the opposite was true.

Mike laid down his rake, his expression suddenly sober. "Think about it, Melanie. Because the next time I come by, we won't just be talking about this. We'll be testing all those rules of yours."

When he walked right on past her without so much as a casual touch, she stood there trembling, maybe with outrage, more likely with need. Damn, he was right. All this talk had obviously made both of them want the exact opposite of what they knew was sensible.

"You're spending a lot of time at the Lindsey cottage lately,'' Jeff observed when he and Mike took a break on a job a few days later.

Since Mike was still wrestling with his conscience over the game he and Melanie were playing, he was in no mood to get drawn into this particular discussion with his best friend. Jeff tended to cut through the crap, and Mike was trying very hard not to be totally honest with

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himself. He feared if he admitted the truth, he'd be over at that cottage like a shot.

"The garden's almost finished," he said tersely.

' 'As if you being there has anything to do with the garden,'' Jeff commented dryly.

"That is my only reason for being there," Mike insisted.

"Maybe it started out that way, but something tells me things have changed.

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