Something About You (Just Me & You) Read Online Free PDF

Sabrina explained. “ Passage d’Enfer .”
    “Is that French for ‘a merry stroll through hell’?”
    She giggled at the smile in his voice.
    “See?” Gage asked as he nuzzled the small, sensitive cove
under her earlobe. “Demonstration has its merits.”
    “Mmm. I could do this all night long.” The port was speaking
again. This man, with his flame-colored hair, body ink, and gritty sense of
humor, was irreverently and cut-to-the-chase hot. The kind of man who’d
probably still have sex in the back of a car, given the opportunity. And at a
lot of weddings.
    Most likely whenever and wherever he wanted.
    Not her type at all …  
    Her practical side rapped the gavel sharply, and she
struggled to a sitting position. Making out with a stranger. Who did that,
anyway? Certainly not her.
    “First base is as far as you get,” she warned him. “Plan on
kicking a lot of dirt, Fitzgerald.”
    Might as well get it out in the open now.
    He chuckled. “‘First base?’ I don’t think I’ve heard that
term since high school. Thinking of the good old days?”
    “Hardly good.” Gage didn’t need to know that she’d spent
those years securing her position as class valedictorian because a merit
scholarship was the only way she could afford college. No, heavy petting had
been Molly’s forte, not Sabrina’s.
    “I think I’ve had too much port.” She ran her fingers
through her bangs. The scenery had gone pleasantly soft-focus.
    “You look cold.” He draped his tuxedo jacket over her
shoulders and pulled the lapels together tightly. She could smell the fresh
green scent of his shampoo on the collar of his jacket, highly seductive
because it made such a personal statement about its wearer. She might end up
alone. But she wouldn’t scratch the occasional foray into passion off the list.
Years from now when she sorted through her life’s memories, tonight would be
one of the more exotic highlights.
    This would be the night she kissed a stranger under a full
moon.
    Boldly wrapping her fingers around the ends of his bowtie,
she pulled him closer and lightly nipped at his mouth.
    He grinned. “All night long, huh?”
    **
    Sabrina awoke abruptly to the sound of a distant lawn mower
and the realization that she was being spooned.
    Gage was curled around her protectively from behind. The
parts of her that weren’t enveloped by his large body were chilled to the bone.
    She cautiously opened her eyes to an uninspiring view of
empty port bottles lolling on the grass. She shrugged one of his arms aside,
careful not to wake him, to rub away the sleep and clots of mascara from her
eyes. One grizzled claw stepped into her line of vision. Then another. The
peacock surveyed her cryptically for a few moments, jerkily tilting its head
from side to side. Then with a thin, focused cry that could etch glass, it
unfurled its train and cupped it into an impressive concave bow of shivering
blue, gold, and emerald eyes.
    “Wrong species, buddy,” she muttered, wriggling out from
under Gage’s weight. Startled by the movement, the peacock packed away its tail
feathers and scuttled off. The sound of the lawn mower grew closer. She pulled
herself to a seated position and waited for the wooziness to hit.
    She glanced down at the sleeping man on the ground beside
her. He had to be a heavy sleeper if he didn’t wake up in this din. In the
morning sun, his skin looked even paler and his freckles more pronounced.
Memories of the night before came back to her in random order. Not just the
kissing and heavy petting, but the lulls, punctuated by idle conversation.
    Gage had regaled her with stories of rooming with the
much-younger Sebastian in college. She knew he’d graduated with a degree in
radio-television-film and considered himself a true independent. She couldn’t
remember exactly what she’d told him about herself. Somehow, Theo’s
biodegradable coffee cups had come up, which led to her telling him about the
legislator’s