The Jinx by Lori Wilde

Author:Lori Wilde
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lori Wilde

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CeeCee tried not to stare but it was downright impossible what with Zack decked out in that black tuxedo, red tie, and matching cummerbund. Not to mention the blood-red rosebud tucked into his lapel.

He looked like someone straight off the set of The Bachelor.

They were standing in the hospital corridor that led to the auditorium where the bachelor auction was due to start in fifteen minutes. Zack looked completely different than he had for the past three weeks. Plus, his limp had almost vanished.

In this moment, except for that neatly trimmed beard, he looked exactly like Jack.

Her heart gave a strange hop. She asked herself, not for the first time, who she was really attracted to. Her wild fling-waiting-to-happen or his steady twin.

CeeCee forced her gaze off Zack and onto the clipboard in her hand. She stifled a yawn. She had slept poorly, thanks to what had not happened in Jack’s apartment the night before.

Each time she had dozed off she would jerk awake a few minutes later, soaked in perspiration and tingling all over from the vestiges of a steamy dream where Zack was the starring attraction.

At dawn, she’d given up trying to sleep and had instead proceeded to worry herself sick about the auction. It was her first time hosting such an event, and she was desperate for things to go smoothly.

Of course with Zack as the headliner, what could possibly go wrong?

Women fainting in a fervor over him?

Men getting jealous and busting his chops?

Kids chasing after him for an autograph?

Okay, tons of things could go wrong.

“Um, you’ve got something poking out of your dress,” he said.

“What?” Distracted, she reached around to feel a price tag sticking up from her zipper.

“Hold on, sweetheart. I’ll deal with that pesky tag.”

And then his fingers were on her skin, burning a searing path straight to her groin.

Oh gosh, they were going to have to do something about this sexual tension. Before her panties spontaneously burst into flames. Before she melted into a puddle and evaporated. Before…

Never mind that, Adams. Head in the game.

The sooner they got their affair rolling, the sooner the sparks would sizzle then fizzle, and the sooner things could get back to normal. But she couldn’t have Zack until Sunday. He would belong to the lucky lady who outbid all the others for a date in Galveston with him.

In the meantime, she would have to put all sexy thoughts on hold.

“Got it.” Zack tucked the errant tag into his pocket, his grin so endearing, she almost absconded with him back to her apartment.

What the heck was the matter with her? Yesterday, when she could have made love to him, she had chickened out and run away.

Why?

And why did the thought of those man-starved single society women bidding on him at the charity auction make her blood run cold?

Sheesh, she was losing it.

She didn’t want him to strut his stuff before other women. She didn’t want to hear them ooh and aah over him. She didn’t want him to go off with anyone else.

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