You've Got Male by Elizabeth Bevarly

Author:Elizabeth Bevarly [Bevarly, Elizabeth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780373772766
Amazon: 0373772769
Publisher: HQN Books
Published: 2004-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

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He didn't notice she was there until he'd finished his final lap—and Carly couldn't help noticing that he had a very nice stroke—and was hauling himself out of the pool. By then she had been watching him for a good ten minutes, noting how his powerful arms sliced effortlessly through the water, how his nimble body moved gracefully forward, how focused he was on his task. Despite the humidity in the cavernous room and the condensation streaking the glass that surrounded the pool like a giant ice cube, she felt her mouth go dry while she watched him.

He swam to the side where she stood and pushed himself up out of the water, his biceps bulging with the action, his forearms anchored firmly on the tile edging the pool. Then he was standing and stretching an arm out for the towel he'd draped over a nearby chair, something that gave her a wide-open view of his nearly naked body, and her brain suddenly went dry, too.

She was helpless to stop the little sound of disquiet that bubbled up from someplace deep inside her, and any hope she'd held that he hadn't heard it fled when his head snapped up and his gaze fell upon her. For one scant scintillating moment, neither of them said a word. They only looked at each other as if each was equally surprised to see the other. Then Tanner's gaze shifted, dropping lower, over the flaming-red maillot bathing suit that scooped low over her breasts and was cut high above her thighs. She'd shed her shoes and outerwear while she'd watched him swim and had left it folded neatly on one of the tables poolside. The suit wasn't exactly modest, but neither was it blatantly revealing. Nevertheless, when his gaze found hers again, she could tell he'd liked what he'd seen. A lot.

But his voice was disapproving when he said, "You get lost on your way to Grandma's house, Red? Maybe you shoulda left some bread crumbs to follow."

"You're mixing up your fairy tales," she replied evenly. "Which surprises me, because it couldn't have been that long ago that your mommy was reading them to you."

He frowned, his blue eyes going absolutely glacial. But he offered not a word of rebuke. Which didn't surprise Carly, unfortunately. She was excellent at leaving men speechless. Somehow, though, she'd expected better of Gillespie. Ah, well. Good to know early on that he'd be an easy mark. Still, it wasn't going to be nearly as fun now.

Although she knew it wasn't wise to push a man after impugning his masculinity, she couldn't quite keep herself from adding, "Oh, don't pout, Gillespie. Even if you do mess up your fairy tales, I still think you're plenty grim."

Just to show him that he and his broodiness didn't scare her one whit, she slung her towel over her shoulder and walked right toward him. Smiling, she never once broke her stride, walking past without saying another word, content that she'd gotten the last one rather handily.

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