“Get ready to lose, Dr. Boudreaux. I know what you did. And I won’t stop until I prove it.”
A good shiver tickled her backbone. “You have fun with that.”
His lips tipped up, and that shiver went straight to her core.
“I will, Dr. Boudreaux. Have no doubt, I will.”
He flashed a cocky smile and left, and she sagged against her door.
The apartment door across the way popped open half an inch. “That boy giving you trouble?” Mrs. Hamm whispered.
“No trouble,” Kaci assured her neighbor. “He’s just flirting because I’m irresistible.”
The door opened wider, and the sweet newgrandmother winked. “That’s how Gerald and I started too. You let us know if he gets to be trouble, and we’ll take care of him.”
“Thank you, Mrs. Hamm.”
Lance was trouble all right.
But he was exactly the kind of trouble she needed to handle herself.
Lance steppedout into the sunshine, wondering if he was thinking with his brain or his other head.
He wanted to kiss her again.
He was single. If he wanted to kiss a woman, even a hillbilly physics professor in a porn star’s body, who would stop him?
Just one kiss. Maybe a roll between the sheets.
He’d been with the same woman for three years. Looking back, those were three long years when he’d forgotten his own favoritehobbies and sacrificed more and more time with his buddies to set himself up with the perfect wife, who, he’d come to realize, had actually been pretty boring.
Wasn’t wrong to want something else to jump-start his new single life.
But it was probably wrong to want it with this woman.
She’d stolen Gertrude, he was almost certain.
Andthatwas what he needed to focus on.
Not on the wariness lurking behind her bravado. Not on the way he wanted to kiss the sass right out of her. Not on the way she smelled like whiskey and lemon drops, or how he never knew what would come out of her mouth next.
He needed to get a grip and focus on what was important.
On what was real.
On what he could fix.
And Gertrude was what he could fix.
He’d seen Kaci drive into the parking lot in a red Jeep, so he started there. Not that he expected to find anything.
That woman was physically incapable of making anything easy.
He smiled.
He got part of why she kept pushing him away. He’d left her in a bar after one of the most intense kisses he could ever remember having. He could’ve explained it to her in two simple sentences.I was supposed to get married that day. But I don’t make out with women, especially women whose names I don’t know, to get over other women.
But Kaci?
