Mr. Temptation (One Scorching Summer, #1) by Lori Wilde

Author:Lori Wilde
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: sexy romance, military romance, enemies to lovers, steamy romance, summer romance
Publisher: Lori Wilde
Published: 2023-02-28T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

It bothered Jackie that she was looking forward to the party. In the past, parties had been nothing more than boring social obligations where she was forced to orbit her father’s sun.

But now? She found herself wanting to go.

It was just because she’d get to see Scott again. That was all. She needed to have sex with him. Put out the fire he lit so she could get her head back in her research. This was medicinal. Nothing more.

She opened her closet. It was empty. She’d brought nothing with her for the summer beyond shorts, tank tops and swimming suits.

Great. She was going to have to go shopping. The only thing she hated worse than parties.

Irritated, she trooped to the boutique in the middle of town and ended up with a white sundress with cutouts of sailboats along the hem. It looked good against her tanned skin and camouflaged her skinniness.

While trying the dress on, she studied herself in the mirror. She could do with a little extra meat on her bones. It wasn’t that she wanted to be so thin. She just forgot to eat much of the time, her thoughts caught up in her work. Food seemed so incidental. Something she had to remember to do.

“You’re not normal,” she muttered to her reflection.

“This isn’t the first I’m hearing of it,” her image taunted.

“Yeah, yeah. I’ll always be a freak.” She headed out of the dressing room with the dress tucked under her arm and almost ran into the saleswoman, who gave her a weird look. Had she overheard Jackie talking to herself?

Jackie forced a smile. “I’ll take it.”

“Yes, ma’am.” The saleswoman rang it up.

Jackie glanced at the clock, realized that Scott would be on her doorstep within half an hour. God, what was wrong with her? How did time slip away from her so easily? Why was she so much more enamored of the Key blenny than she was of people?

She rushed back to her apartment, and once inside, she tossed the dress on the couch, stripped off her clothes and rushed naked to the shower. To her, clothes were nothing more than something to cover your body. Not something to wish for or pine over. Ah, to be a fish with no clothes to worry about at all. Just swimming nude.

Yes, but she would have to worry constantly about being eaten.

Well, at least that was something worth worrying about. Nothing like walking the social tightrope. Jackie blew out her breath, soaped up and then rinsed off. She had just stepped out of the shower when her doorbell rang.

Scott was early.

Her heart did an irrational tap dance. What was that all about? Frowning, she wrapped a towel around her and padded to the front door.

Scott stood there looking sexy with his hair combed back off his forehead. He wore blue shirt and beige slacks. He looked freaking delicious.

“Whoa,” he laughed. “Is that what you’re wearing?”

Jackie glowered. “Of course not. I’m running late. Come in.”

He tracked over the threshold, glanced around at the controlled chaos.

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