Doctoring the Single Dad by Marie Ferrarella

Author:Marie Ferrarella
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2010-12-26T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

Nikki’s sudden, surprised gasp slipped out at the same time and mingled with Lucas’s sharp intake of breath as he made a grab for her. The quick, firm contact as he wrapped his fingers around her arms had generated a fresh volley of stinging pain through them.

It all happened so fast.

Grabbing her arms to keep Nikki from falling down and hurting herself, Lucas instinctively pulled her to him. And then, time, which had been zooming by, suddenly seemed to slip into a heated, almost trance-like slow-motion pace. One second, he was making a grab for the woman, the next, he’d pulled her up to him until her body was completely against his. There was not so much as room for a breath between them.

They were all but sealed together.

His fingers weren’t stinging anymore, at least not that he could notice. But an ache of a different kind definitely existed, materializing out of nothing and growing prodigiously.

Her breath was against his face. It smelled sweet. Enticing. Stirring up other, long-dormant sensations within him.

Was it longing?

Lucas wasn’t sure.

Wasn’t sure of anything right now, except that his knees had grown strangely wobbly.

He could have sworn that not only was there no space for anyone or anything else in his life beyond his daughter, but he would have made a fairly high bet, wagering the sum of his bank account and the roof over his head—he was that certain—that he was never going to feel anything remotely approaching a sexual reaction to another woman ever again.

Carole had been his world. They’d grown up together. On both sides of the marriage. They’d played as children, they’d played in a different way as young adults. He had firmly believed that Carole was the only woman for him. From a very young age, he’d been certain of that.

It hadn’t even occurred to him to look around, to “sample” being with other women. He didn’t want to “sample,” he just knew. He was a one-woman man and Carole had been that woman.

And yet, right here, right now, Lucas was keenly aware that he was wondering what it would feel like to kiss his daughter’s doctor.

Was he going crazy?

She stood very, very still, hardly drawing a breath. An electricity crackled between them, Nikki could swear to it. Like an unexpected summer storm, it had come out of nowhere, bursting on top of her before she even realized that there was a cloud in the sky, much less that it was directly overhead.

What did she do? Did she give in to the almost overwhelming attraction and kiss him? Or did she force herself to take a step back, hoping that distance would somehow help to cool what was clearly her critically overheated jets?

If she gave in, it wouldn’t exactly be orthodox, but then again, it wasn’t as if Lucas Wingate was her patient. It was his daughter she’d treated and this was really a social visit, not a professional one. She was here as a “friend,” not a doctor.

A friend staring into an incredibly gray area.

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