Too Sexy For Marriage by Cathie Linz

Author:Cathie Linz [Cathie Linz]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781459274464
Publisher: Harlequin

6

“YOU HEARD THE KID,” Heather murmured against Jason’s lips, her voice tinged with laughter. “No kissing on his bench.”

As they got up and skated away under the disapproving eye of their pint-size chaperon, Jason muttered, “You enjoyed that, didn’t you?”

“You bet. Didn’t you?” she asked, blinking at him guilelessly while skating circles around him. “You were sure acting like you enjoyed it.”

“I wasn’t referring to the kiss. I meant embarrassing me,” he said.

“It wouldn’t bother you if you weren’t such a stuffed shirt,” she teased, yanking on his immaculately pressed T-shirt for good measure.

“Are you saying I’m too uptight and stiff?” he demanded.

“Blimey, a man can never be too stiff or too rich,” Heather retorted in an audacious English accent, accompanied by a cheeky grin that faded as she remembered Nita and Bud were somewhere in the vicinity, keeping tabs on her progress. She’d forgotten all about them for a while there.

In fact, she’d forgotten about everything but Jason, and that was a dangerous thing to do. Because no matter how charming he was, no matter how incredibly well he kissed, there was no getting around the fact that he was the city’s sexiest bachelor, used to having beautiful women on his arm.

Spending time with Jason was making her wish she were prettier, thinner, taller, sexier. And that wasn’t a good thing. She’d been down that road before, too many times. It was strewn with potholes you could lose your self-identity in.

It had taken Heather years to accept herself for who she was. She didn’t need Jason rocking the boat for her now.

Her dark thoughts were interrupted by the sight of a head bobbing behind a nearby bush. A second later the head bobbed again, the sunlight bouncing off the shiny bald spot on top. The pervert hiding in the bushes was none other than Bud. She’d recognize his tacky taste in clothes anywhere. Not to mention the smell of his cigars.

But it smelled like something more than a cigar was burning. Bud’s way of hiding his smoking in their supposedly smoke-free office was to simply put the cigar behind his back, as if that made it all right. Heather had often thought it was only a matter of time before he set himself on fire.

Sure enough, a small column of smoke rose from behind him as Bud saw she was looking his way and ducked down behind the bush again. He didn’t stay there long, however. A minute later, he leaped out, yelping and smacking the smoking seat of his yellowand-green-checked golfing pants.

Immediately, everyone’s eyes were on him and his strange ants-in-his-pants antics.

“What’s wrong with him?” Jason asked.

“I guess he found himself in the hot seat once too often,” Heather said as Bud headed straight for the lake and dunked his steaming butt in the chilly water.

“If that’s the case, then I guess he’s learned his lesson,” Jason noted.

“I doubt it,” Heather muttered, wondering where Nita was. Up a tree somewhere? This was turning into a farce.

It couldn’t continue. She had to get this ridiculous bet out of the way as soon as possible.

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