Perfect Strangers by Carly Phillips

Author:Carly Phillips
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance, Contemporary
Publisher: CP Publishing
Published: 2023-07-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

Luke didn’t have to guess how Alexa felt or what she wanted. She wore her heart on her sleeve and her feelings on her face. And when she reached for him, he knew he was a goner. If he let the kiss go on, they’d end up on the ground, not on the ice.

With more willpower than he thought he had, he broke the kiss. “Skating, darlin’.”

Eyes glazed, she looked up at him and nodded. “Skating.”

“You gonna be steady out there?” he asked, his hands on her forearms, keeping her upright.

“No, but you already said you’d hold me.” She grinned and stepped back. “Do I get to try on my skates now?”

He nodded, already knowing they’d fit. This time, he’d had to go to the source—her best friend Cara Hartley, a Serendipity police officer who Luke found at the police station in town. She’d looked him up and down, placed her hands on her hips, and divulged Alexa’s shoe size. “I have a gun, and I know how to use it,” she then said. “Break her heart, and you’ll answer to me.”

“Message received,” he told her. “I like how you two look out for each other.” He inclined his head. “Well done. And glad to see you’re feelin’ better.”

The big bad cop’s expression softened. “Thanks.”

“Also glad your man came around,” Luke said, pushing his luck a little further.

Her eyes narrowed.

“And now I’m getting out while the getting’s good.” With a wink, he’d taken off, heading next to the small store located in the skating rink in the next town over.

Cole joined him for the ride, laughing all the way there—and back. Luke ignored him, figuring he’d have some chuckles of his own when Cole found his woman.

Now, Luke turned back to his female and watched her lace up the skates.

“They fit!” she exclaimed, her excitement like his niece’s on Christmas.

“But they’re new, so you’ll probably end up with blisters,” he warned her. “We’ll take it easy.” He stood and held out a hand, which she readily grabbed.

A few minutes later, they were on the ice. He wished he could say she was a natural. She wasn’t. But what she lacked in skill, she more than made up for in both enthusiasm and willingness to keep getting back up—no matter how many spills she took. And unfortunately for her, she took plenty. Her ass would be sore tomorrow, which meant he’d have to give her some TLC today.

No big chore.

On what felt to Luke like her hundredth tumble, he caught her before her butt hit the ice. “And we’re all finished for today,” he said.

“I can go more,” she said through chattering teeth.

He wrapped his arm around her waist and steered them toward the lake’s edge. “If you won’t admit to freezing your ass off, I will. I’m cold, and I need your body heat to warm me.”

Her eyes darkened, but she didn’t give up that easily. “One more circle around the lake.”

At that moment, Luke cursed her father for instilling that need to prove herself in his daughter.

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