Easy For Keeps: A Boudreaux Novella (The Boudreaux Series) Read Online Free PDF Page B

right next to my bra strap, and every nerve ending in my body stands up on high alert. “Sweetheart, if you’re going to kiss a man, you don’t apologize after the fact.”
    Before I can reply, he turns me so my back is against the car, his hands on my hips, and presses in, his face so close I can feel the heat coming off of him and smell the mint from his toothpaste. His nose nudges mine, and then his lips are working their magic. I grip his arms and revel at the hard muscles there, and everywhere, as he presses his firm body against me and devours me whole. He bites my lower lip, then moves in for more. His hands skim up my sides and cup my jaw as his tongue tangles with mine. He’s all lips and hands and hard body , and oh my God, I want him.
    Right here.
    Right now.
    But he suddenly stops, panting hard, his forehead leaning on mine.
    “Let me take you out,” he whispers. “Let me see you again.”
    I can’t speak, so I nod weakly, making him smile. Without looking down, I pull my card out of my back pocket and slip it into his, silently high-fiving myself for touching his very fine ass.
    “My number’s on that.”
    “Okay,” he says, still whispering. Even his whisper is sexy.
    I nod again, swallow hard, and when he pulls away, I clear my throat and begin walking away, toward my own car.
    “Sarah?”
    “Yeah?”
    “You forgot something.” He’s holding the bear and sporting a very satisfied grin.
    “Right.” I walk back and take the bear, but before I can turn away, he drags his knuckles down my cheek.
    “I’ll see you very soon.”
    “Okay.”
    I grin, and with my libido still on overdrive, walk away, acutely aware of his eyes on my ass as I leave.
     

Chapter Four
    ~Sarah~
     
     
    “Mommy, you look so pretty!” Hailey says when I hurry into the bedroom a few days later. I’m scurrying around, getting ready for my date with Adam. I’m nervous.
    So, so nervous.
    “Stop being nervous,” Becca, my sister-in-law, says with a laugh as she sits on my bed and watches me fidget with my hair. “You look hot. He’s going to want to”—she glances at Hailey—“ do things to you.”
    “Okay seriously,” I say and turn to Becca. She’s been in my life since she was just a little girl. “Is this too weird? You’re my sister-in-law and you’re helping me get ready for a date with someone who isn’t your brother.”
    “No,” she says and shakes her head. “Kurt loved you, but he’d want you to be happy, Sarah. He’d want you to live your life. You can’t be a nun forever.”
    “I’m not a nun ,” I counter, but she keeps going.
    “Besides, I set you up with someone last year. Granted, it was horrible, and I apologize, but I wouldn’t set you up if I had issues with you dating.”
    “It was terrible,” I reply with a laugh, remembering the date she set me up with last year in Miami. I couldn’t get home fast enough. “But, to be fair, I wasn’t ready to date yet either.”
    “You’re so ready,” Becca says. “And I’ve got things covered here if you decide to, you know, sleep over.”
    “I will not be sleeping over,” I say emphatically, but she just grins.
    “I’m just saying.”
    The doorbell rings and Hailey runs out of the bedroom but knows better than to open the door.
    “Okay, I think I’m ready.”
    Becca takes in my black flowy blouse and dark blue jeans and nods. “You’re a hottie. And those red heels are to die for .”
    “And you’re my favorite sister-in-law,” I reply with a laugh as we walk to the small living room.
    “He’s here!” Hailey says with a loud whisper. “Hurry! Open the door!”
    I comply and have a millisecond of losing my words. What the man does to a blue button down shirt and a pair of jeans should be illegal in the state of Louisiana.
    Or the whole country.
    “You look amazing,” he murmurs and leans in to kiss my cheek.
    “Adam!” Hailey squeals, excited to see her new friend. “You’re here! Are you taking us on a