Tall, Dark, and Bad by Charlotte Hughes

Author:Charlotte Hughes [Hughes, Charlotte]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-02-12T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

By the time Summer arrived back at Warren’s apartment, she was nursing a headache that had Cooper’s name all over it. It seemed the more she tried to avoid him, the more she found the two of them thrown into one situation after another. Every time she felt as though she had her feelings under control, Cooper had only to look at her that certain way to send her pulse racing. It couldn’t be healthy, all this emotional turmoil¸ she told herself.

She sat in her parked car for a good ten minutes, creating a mental list of reasons not to get involved with the man. They were from different worlds; what did they really have in common when it came right down to it? He was reckless with a devil-may-care attitude; she was cautious and needed a certain amount of balance and stability in her life. He could be calloused; she was overly sensitive at times. He could be charming one moment, and brutal the next. She had seen his anger in motion, and it had frightened her. Despite being a career woman, she wanted to marry and have children one day. Cooper did not appear to be the sort of man who would tie himself to one woman for long. Sure, he wouldn’t mind playing house for a while, as long as it suited him, but he would be long gone before the first mortgage payment was due.

Summer knew it was up to her to put a stop to the potentially hazardous relationship; otherwise, Cooper would continue to bulldoze his way into her life and sucker her in with those dark eyes and blatant sensuality. She had to back off, draw a line in the sand and refuse to let him cross it.

Squaring her shoulders as though preparing for battle, Summer reached for her overnight bag and the outfit she planned to wear to work the next day. She wore her grungiest jeans and a faded sweatshirt. If Cooper found her unattractive in her flannel nightgown, he would probably run for the hills when he caught sight of her at her least attractive.

Warren’s door was unlocked. She let herself in and stepped into the living room, where she found Cooper watching basketball on a flat-screen TV. He gave her a long look and grinned. “Now you’ve done it,” he said. “You’ve gone and turned me on.”

He couldn’t even smile at her without making her think of sex. Well, she wasn’t about to be taken in. “Did Warren eat his soup?” she asked.

“Yeah. I had to slap him around a few times to keep him awake, but I managed to get him to eat most of it. Which brings me to a question. How come we’re giving him soup? It’s not like he’s got some kind of stomach virus.”

“This is an uneducated guess on my part, but I thought it best to keep him on a bland diet for a day or two because of the pain pills,” she said, “just in case they make him sick to his stomach.

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