To Have and to Harm by Debra Doxer

Author:Debra Doxer [Doxer, Debra]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
ISBN: 9781499234572
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Goodreads: 21478994
Publisher: Debra Doxer
Published: 2014-05-09T04:00:00+00:00

GRANT DROPS us off at the condo so we can pack Raielle’s things, but I don’t want to go inside. With the way I’m feeling, I’ll just get on her case. If Shane’s home, it’s likely I’ll lose it on him, too. Her wary expression says she knows what’s brewing inside me.

“Let’s go for a drive,” I suggest.

The sun is going down, and we’re standing on the sidewalk. She looks at me like I’m nuts. “We just spent almost four hours in the car today.”

She’s right. A drive may not be the best idea. “How about we go get some dinner then?”

She glances up at the condo, obviously not wanting to go inside any more than I do. “We could go to the market. I’ll cook you dinner at your apartment, and we can come back later to get my stuff.”

At her offer, I feel some amount of relief. I can’t pretend to approve of what she wants, but I can refrain from discussing it for a little while the way she seems to want me to. “You cook?” I ask.

She nods. “I cooked for my mom and me all the time.”

I know Cal’s working tonight, and the idea of the two of us alone at my place while she makes me dinner sounds too good to refuse. I dip down to kiss her. “You cooking for me is on my fantasy list,” I say, wanting to lift her mood.

“It is?” She tilts her head at me. “Why is that a fantasy?”

“Because you’re doing it naked.” I grin when I see her cheeks redden.

“I don’t think that’s very sanitary,” she says, wrinkling her nose. But I’m pretty sure she’s feigning her reaction because she can’t hide the gleam in her eyes.

“I’d be willing to risk it.” I find the truck myself in the valet lot and get the keys from the attendant. Then I pull open the passenger door for her.

Before she gets in, she levels her gaze at me. “You know I’m not cooking you dinner naked, right?”

Leaning down, I say quietly, “What if I promise to eat it naked?”

Her eyes widen. “Umm…” Then she yelps in surprise as I lift her up onto the seat.

“Keep thinking about me naked.” I shut the door, quietly laughing to myself, unexpectedly eager to temporarily put aside the issues hanging heavy in the air between us if it means we get to spend a nice night together.

Raielle is quiet beside me as I pull out of the parking lot. We drive through the outskirts of Westwood just as the colorful neon marquees for the various movie theaters so abundant to this neighborhood start buzzing to life. Once we’re past all the shops and restaurants, I take a side road I discovered a few weeks ago.

She furrows her brow. “Another shortcut?”

“The last one worked out, didn’t it?”

I’m heading through an intersection, and I can see her skeptical expression as she watches out the window. When I drive up the narrow hill that will bring us out behind the grocery store, I feel her eyes on me.

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