Double Trouble by Lori Wilde

Author:Lori Wilde [Wilde, Lori]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction / Romance / Contemporary, Fiction / Contemporary Women, Fiction / Romance / Erotica
ISBN: 9781455553112
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Goodreads: 21926857
Publisher: Forever
Published: 2014-12-16T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 2

Dr. Harrison Standish hated parties.

No, hated was too mild a word. He loathed them, despised them, abhorred them. He would rather have a root canal, a major tax audit, and a prostate exam—all on the same morning—than attend one of these exorbitantly expensive, butt-kissing cultural affairs.

He’d already scoped out every exit so he could make a quick and clean getaway as soon as feasibly possible. He never went anywhere without an escape route mapped out.

Worst of all, it was a masquerade party. How pathetic—a group of grown people dressing up in silly costumes, pretending to be some ridiculous characters from history or literature. And as the icing on the cake, there in the center of the room, glomming on to attention, was the flamboyant Cassie Cooper. Looking as if she owned the world in her regal Cleopatra costume, heavy eyeliner, and thick dark wig. The kohl made her big eyes look even wider than they were, emphasizing that compellingly innocent-yet-naughty quality of hers.

Harrison was irritated with himself because each time she sashayed by, every intelligent thought bounced right out of his head, to be replaced by a drooling, Cro-Magnon, monosyllabic beat.

Me want.

This wasn’t like him at all, dammit. But whenever Cassie appeared he could not seem to stop himself from fantasizing about her. And he hated his unexpected weakness almost as much as he hated this party.

He had to stop thinking about her because she was, quite frankly, the most mesmerizing yet infuriating woman he had ever met. He could not afford the luxury of falling under her spell. However, it was far more than her fair complexion, light-colored eyes, and voluptuous figure that drove him around the bend.

Her scattered thought processes made no rational sense. Just when he thought he had her figured out, she would do something totally illogical. Harrison suspected the woman possessed a serious case of adult attention deficit disorder.

She strutted across the room, hips swaying with primal rhythm. In his head he heard the hissing whispery sound of metallic brushes whisking over brass cymbals, reverberating with each roll of her fabulous ass. Tss-tta-tss-tta-tss.

A guy could get whiplash from watching her.

The woman was nimble. He would give her that. She was Lepidoptera Danaus plexippus, flashy, colorful, flitting from flower to flower. Here, there, everywhere. Never lingering in one place, always on the move.

Working with her over the course of the past nine days had been a royal pain in the butt. Whenever she wanted to get her way on an issue, she would ply her womanly wiles. Flirting, teasing, cajoling.

Harrison had pretended to be underwhelmed by her charms, even though he was as bedazzled as the stammering college students helping them set up the exhibit. But he refused to let her know the extent of her power over him. He’d learned from hard experience you couldn’t trust lust.

Face it, Standish, it’s just been too long since you’ve had sex.

The pressure of celibacy, that’s all this was. Because he and Cassie were total opposites in every way imaginable.

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