Touch Me When We're Dancing by Suzanne Jenkins

Author:Suzanne Jenkins [Jenkins, Suzanne]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2018-02-27T06:00:00+00:00

In midtown Manhattan, Ryan Maddox twiddled his thumbs, trying to think of something he could do on a Saturday afternoon. The snow put a crimp in his style, not able to flit around town looking for old friends or, better yet, old girlfriends. He’d avoided the office receptionist, Jennifer, after Peter asked him to. He missed her, too. She was like a wildcat in bed, into all the perverse stuff Ryan wanted to try on her and vice versa, but she was also smart and pretty and levelheaded about other things. She would make a good wife, and therein lay the problem—he hoped Lisa would come to her senses and let him come back. Pam’s rejection of him hurt, but he understood with Lisa living down the beach now, the proximity would be a problem. However, if he were married, if he appeared to have settled down, the proximity might cease to be an issue.

Giving up on rational thinking, he called Jennifer, not texted. Calling was going that extra mile to a girl. Er, a woman.

“What do you want?” she said, suspicious.

“Same old crap. I’m lonely and bored, and I think we should see a movie and have dinner.”

“You’re asking me on a date. Why doesn’t that ring true?”

“That’s not fair,” he whined.

“Usually, you come right out and say you want to fuck and bypass all the preliminary chat. Until Peter put the kibosh on it, that is.”

“Well, that’s not the case this time. Since you’re determined to embarrass me, I was just thinking about what a nice woman you are. You’re wild in bed, too. You have everything a man who wants to be married wants.”

Silence echoed across space for a moment.

“You want to be married.”

“Why do you keep repeating me like that? Yes, I want to be married. Shame on me. Plus my ego is taking a beating because I thought you loved me.”

“Ryan, I love you, okay? But you love Lisa.”

“Lisa is not available and will never be available. It’s a long story. If you and I get married, you’ll be privy to the details, but not until then.”

“Yikes! It must be huge to have to marry me to tell me!”

“You know I love you,” he said, ignoring her sarcasm.

He really did love her in a warm, fuzzy way. Maybe not like a passionate, I can’t live without her love, but he admired her, wanted to protect her, wanted a child with her kind of love. Wanted a child? No, that was definitely a miscalculation. He had two children ready to pop out. He didn’t need a third.

“Wow, you never said you loved me before.”

“Well, I love you. And on Monday, I hope you’ll go to the courthouse with me and get a marriage license.”

“You said you wanted dinner and a movie. You never said anything about getting a license.”

“No, we’ll get dinner and a movie now, the license during lunch on Monday.”

“Okay. Now I feel like a jerk. Why do you want to marry me?”

“I’m ready to start my life, and I want you by my side,” he said.

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