Striptease by Alison Kent

Striptease by Alison Kent

Author:Alison Kent [Kent, Alison]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: www.gIRL-gEAR
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2003-03-18T23:00:00+00:00


8

MONDAY MORNING FOUND Melanie back in her office at her desk and unable to walk any better than the day before. She couldn’t imagine how much trouble swimming would’ve been on Saturday if she’d ever made it into the pool.

But she hadn’t even made it into her suit. She’d only made it out of one leg of her shorts and panties and onto Jacob’s lap. At least that’s as far as she’d managed to strip there in Chloe and Eric’s second floor bedroom.Later, in her own bedroom, she’d let Jacob strip her down to her skin, but only after she’d undressed him first. Except none of the bedroom action had happened until after the pole dance incident and the dinner out at the restaurant.

She didn’t remember having ever screwed away an entire Saturday, from midafternoon to midnight.

Stopping for dinner that evening hadn’t been a date as much as a matter of survival. She’d been starving. If she’d simply ordered in Chinese or whipped up something in the kitchen, she doubted she would’ve ever gotten Jacob back into his clothes. Or wanted to get back into hers.

The man had absolutely no self-consciousness about parading around in the nude. As much as she enjoyed the show, co-ed naked cooking offered as many drawbacks as advantages. The idea of burned body parts had been unappealing enough to force her to dress and encourage him to follow suit.

And the breather had done them both good. They’d actually talked, even though most of what they’d talked about was the sex. It was almost as if that was all they had in common, though she knew they had to have more.

Besides, listening to Jacob’s explanation about finding her sexy had made her feel marginally better. Or would have, if not for the confusion that followed.

She prided herself on remaining calm, competent and professional in every situation. That’s who she was, and that’s the Melanie she wanted men to like and admire.

The fact that apparently Jacob was more attracted to an aberration than to her true personality…well, it just plain sucked. Especially since her bedroom behavior had only solidified his first impression.

What would he do when he learned his fantasy stripper was all smoke, shadows and mirrors?

Run like hell, of course. They all did, eventually.

Relaxing her grip on the last unbroken pencil in her office, Melanie shook off the disturbing thought of Jacob and, as distasteful as work seemed today—and as angry as that distaste made her—glanced at the open page of the gift catalog she’d abandoned last week.

She had managed to include six more items in her list of possibilities, but doubted she’d end up adding a single one to her product line once she went back through and classified them by price and fun factor.

The fact that she had no head for business today wasn’t increasing her chance of success. Or doing much to boost her confidence that she’d be able to carry on an affair with Jacob and remain productive at work.

And wasn’t that



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