NYC Angels: Tempting Nurse Scarlet Read Online Free PDF Page A

phone when I’m in bed. I’m trying to find a comfortable position.”
    And just like that, with the mere mention she was in bed, without-sex-for-nine-long-months-brain overtook concerned-father-brain with an enticing visual of her luscious body. A comfortable position cameto mind. Scarlet spread out on top of satin sheets. Naked. Waiting.
    His sex-starved body went hard.
    “Soooo,
you
called me,” she said. “What can I do for you?”
    A loaded question if ever there was one. Because right this instant he wanted her to talk dirty, to touch herself and tell him all about it, to describe her aroused nipples and slick… Lord help him. Prolonged abstinence had effectively eradicated his ability to engage in casual nighttime conversation with a woman. From bedroom to bedroom. And if he took a few small steps, from bed to bed. And from out of nowhere, the idea of phone sex popped into his head.
    “Hello. Everything okay over there?”
    Totally disgusted with himself, Lewis rubbed his hand over his face and let out a breath. “A bad day followed by a bad night combined with a non-existent sex life since my daughter came to live with me and I am conjuring up totally inappropriate visuals of you, a woman I have known for less than twenty-four hours, at the simple mention of you getting comfortable in bed. In my defense, you were making some very sexy noises a moment ago, so I hold you partly responsible. But I assure you, when I picked up the phone to make this call my intentions were purely G-rated.”
    “And now what are they?” she teased.
    “Let’s just say, the next time you see me you owe me a slap across the face, because I totally deserve it.”
    Turned out she had a sexy laugh, too.
    He shifted in the recliner to relieve some of the pressure in his pants. Not good. Scarlet Miller was not the woman to slake his lust. He needed her to fix things between him and Jessie and would not risk anythinginterfering with his top priority. “Please accept my sincerest apologies.”
    “Accepted, but not necessary,” she said. “For the record, you could pass for sexy on the phone, too.”
    “You are not helping.”
    “Do you want to know what I’m wearing?” she taunted him.
    “Absolutely not,” he lied.
    “I could—”
    “Stop it.”
    “Fine,” she said. “But you started it.”
    “And I’m going to finish it.” Only because someone had to. “I called to talk about Jessie. To try to sweet talk you into sharing some more helpful hints on improving communication between us, because the direct approach is not working.”
    “Too bad. That’s the closest I’ve ever come to having phone sex.”
    Did he detect a hint of disappointment? “Oddly enough, me, too,” he admitted. And why did he feel so comfortable sharing that tidbit with a woman he hardly knew?
    “You know you’re putting me in a tough spot,” Scarlet said, her voice serious. “I can’t betray things Jessie has told me in confidence. She really needs a friend to talk to, and right now I’m it. It took me a long time to get her to open up.”
    He wanted to ask how she’d managed that, but decided to start with, “Would you at least tell me how you met?”
    She took so long to answer Lewis had started to worry she wouldn’t.
    “That I can do.” It sounded like she repositioned herself in bed. Again. “I work late on Tuesdays and Thursdaysto spend some time with my night staff. So I take a break at three.”
    “Right around when I send Jessie down to get a snack after school.”
    “The cafeteria isn’t usually busy at that time so I noticed her, always sitting there by herself with that ‘don’t talk to me’ look.”
    Lewis hated that look.
    “I saw a lot of my thirteen-year-old self in Jessie. Mad at the world. Too much time alone and unsupervised. Do you honestly think she’s safe wandering around alone in a city hospital for hours waiting for you to get off work?”
    Lewis did not appreciate the censure in her tone. She had no