Good Girl Gone Wild: When Lust Turns to Passion... (Good and Wild) Read Online Free

Christine who was curled up in her favorite armchair, her
hands wrapped around her mug. She had a meditative look on her face, and Nick
knew for some reason that she was simultaneously not listening to the two girls
and upset at him.
    Christine was in
fact furious. He had been within an ace of kissing her, and his girlfriend (his
wife?!) had been right in the other room, barely two feet away through the
wall! She wanted him for herself, she had admitted that while she lay in bed
sleepless earlier, but she knew it wasn’t to be. He was spoken for. The
unexpectedness of his arrival had thrown her off balance, and she had forgotten
that vital little fact for a second when he was so close.
    She squirmed
slightly at the memory, and Kate caught the movement. “Oh, Christine,” the
sudden call almost made Christine drop her mug on her lap for a second
record-breaking time that day. “I told Lisa about how Nick almost demolished
your laptop at the café this afternoon.” Nick , she thought wonderingly, his
name is Nick. What a lovely name. Nicholas? Dominic?
    “So that’s why
you came back so early,” Lisa said, almost accusingly, her narrow stare
promising all sorts of repercussions for her reticence. Christine gave back a
wide-eyed one, giving nothing away.
    “It wasn’t a big
deal,” she mumbled into her mug, refusing to look at Nick.
    “Oh, no, he owes
you a dinner, at least, right, Nicky?” Kate said, grinning at Nick. Christine
felt like she was in a parallel universe. The girlfriend (wife?!) was setting
her up with Nick? Hope began to rise. Maybe she’s not his girlfriend ,
she thought, risking a look at Nick. As always, his eyes were on her, and she
could feel herself getting warm. Her eyes dropped. Thank God she didn’t blush
easily!
    “Definitely,”
Nick said firmly, pushing off from the doorway. “But I think that’s between us,
don’t you think?” He took his gaze away from Christine long enough to look
meaningfully at Kate. Lisa took the hint and jumped up.
    “I was telling
you about these pumps I bought downtown, and they’re so cute. Come into my
room,” she said, and Kate followed with alacrity, tipping Nick a roguish wink
as she passed.
    Christine sat
frozen, not knowing what to do. She badly wanted to follow the two girls to the
safety of the bedroom, but she also wanted to be alone with Nick. He came to
sit near her, and courtesy forced her to look at him. He looked uncertain, no
longer smiling, looking anxious.
    “Don’t mind,
Kate, she means well, but sometimes she goes too far.” Nick searched her face
for a clue to her thoughts, and found himself gazing deeply into her eyes
again. Has she hypnotized me? he wondered, feeling out of his depth, his
breath starting to quicken as he was again enveloped by an irresistible
attraction to this girl.
    “I-It’s fine,
you don’t have to buy me dinner,” Christine said, trying to catch her own
breath. She couldn’t look away.
    “Oh, but I want
to,” he said, resisting the urge to touch her face again. “You must know I find
you very attractive, Christine. I would love to spend more time with you, if
you’re okay with that.”
    Oh,
yes! Her mind shouted,
but she temporized. “I don’t know. I barely know you. And what about --?” She
waved a hand at the closed bedroom door. She saw the confusion in his eyes, and
then enlightenment. He smiled.
    “Kate’s
my cousin.”
    Oh,
blessed relief! Some of it
must have showed in her face, because Nick smiled wider. So that’s why she
was upset, he thought, pleased at the positive sign.
    “About
knowing me, that’s what a date’s for,” he persisted. “How about tomorrow?”
    She
nodded her head, smiling shyly. Nick knew he had a dopey grin on his face, but
he couldn’t help it.
    “Okay
then, I’ll pick you up here, say 7?” he asked, trying to decide where he should
take her. Somewhere romantic, he thought, unaware that Christine was
fighting with an irresistible urge to brush back the