What's Love??? the Complete Series by Niecey Roy

Author:Niecey Roy
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Humorous Women's Fiction, Contemporary Women, Contemporary Romance, Chick-Lit Romance, Chick-Lit Humor, Niecey Roy, What's Love series, new adult romance, new adult
Publisher: Niecey Roy
Published: 2015-10-12T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

Roxanna lived in a gated community in a sprawling Mediterranean style home; it had been her parents’, once upon a time. After her parents’ divorce, her dad moved to Las Vegas to make his mark in the culinary world, and her mother took up traveling, spending money on things she didn’t need in cities all over the world. Every once in awhile she would breeze through the door, talking a hundred miles a minute in her heavily accented English, all smiles and shopping bags. These days, Julia Moss lived on the West Coast in a condo.

“Why the hell does she put glasses all the way up here?” I grumbled, my fingertips just barely grazing the edge of the upside down martini glass.

We’d eaten our dinner with an expensive red wine Julia had left from her last visit, and now we were moving on to vodka martinis. Sometimes the best way to deal with an unexpected, bumpy curve in the road was by taking a mental night off and medicating with liquor. I’d go back to worrying tomorrow. Right now, I had a full belly and a smile on my face after Roxanna’s dramatic reenactment of her mother’s last attempt at setting Roxanna up with a “nice boy” who barely spoke English, but whose family was eager to pay his new bride a pretty penny for the marriage and green card.

I perched precariously on a stool against the counter, one knee resting on the granite for balance as I stretched for the top shelf of the cabinet. The stool wobbled as I put too much pressure on one side.

My fingertips brushed against the martini glass again, and I exclaimed, “Yes!”

“Yes is right. It’s a pretty good view from here.”

Leo’s voice startled me, and I teetered on the stool. I squealed as I lost my balance and a pair of strong hands cupped my hips. My heart thrummed against my ribcage, and where his hands rested, the heat passed through my sweatpants and against my skin.

“Damn it, Leo, you scared the crap out of me.” But my voice lacked conviction.

The butterflies fluttered to life; slow at the moment, gently bumping against each other. But the fluttering would escalate the longer he was near. He balanced me effortlessly in his hands, pulling me down from the counter and turning me in his arms so my chest pressed against his.

“What are you doing here?” I sucked in a breath of his cologne. “You’re supposed to be working some big case. We’re having a girls’ night. Girls’ night means no boys.”

After our almost-kiss earlier, I hadn’t been able to get him off my mind. Part of the reason I’d agreed to having pasta at Roxanna’s house and not Gen’s apartment was because I’d hoped to see him at some point tonight. Not that I’d admit it out loud. Ever.

“Roxanna asked me to bring home cranberry juice for your drinks.” He let me go, and I stumbled backward. He grinned at my scowl. “I think you’re happy to see me, Princess.

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