Good Girl Gone Wild: When Lust Turns to Passion... (Good and Wild) by Dominica Dark Page B

smiled easily. “Yes, of course. Just thought of
something. Yes, I’m seeing someone right now.”
    Paula
slapped his arm slightly, smiling roguishly. “Lucky girl! Is she here?” she
asked, looking around expectantly.
    Nick
shook his head, suddenly anxious to be gone. “No, I’m here with Kate.”
    As
if on cue, Kate appeared by his side, exclaiming at Paula, kissing the air near
her cheek. Paula had not been Kate’s favorite person. Paula had a tendency to
be clingy, and had even been jealous of the cousins’ closeness. Looking at them
now, they acted like long-lost sisters. Nick marveled at female interpersonal
relationships.
    Nick
wandered away, waiting for an opportunity to slip away. He saw a couple of
college acquaintances chatting by the door and conversed with them a little
before finally making his escape. He had caught Kate’s eye as he was going, and
she gave a barely perceptible nod without missing a beat in her conversation.
    Nick
hurried up to his hotel room, hoping Christine was still asleep. He liked
watching her sleep, finding her presence soothing. The problem was she excited
him so much when she was awake that he found it hard to think. And he found
that he wanted to think about where their relationship was going.
    Nick
was no saint. Young, rich and handsome, he’d had a lot of sexual encounters,
and a couple of girlfriends, but none had been serious. He wasn’t exactly a
stud; sex was not all-important to him. The way he felt about Christine was a
totally different proposition. She filled up his senses in a way that no woman
had ever done before. He thought about her constantly, and he had only known
her a couple of days! He was also grimly aware that he had been bare-backing
with her, something he never did with any of his sexual partners, even his
girlfriends. Yet he felt perfectly safe being so vulnerable with her.
    The
room was as dim as he had left it three hours earlier, but it felt empty.
Christine was nowhere to be found.
    Nick
felt a moment of panic, shrugging out of his jacket and discarding his tie,
thinking she had decided to go home after all.  He raked a hand through his
hair and spied her knapsack which was still on the chair near the window. He
took out his cell phone, intending to call her, when the door’s lock beeped,
indicating someone using a keycard to open it. He turned sharply as Christine
walked in with a shopping bag. She stopped short when she saw him there, and a
look of guilt flitted through her face. What is she up to? he wondered,
amused at her expression.
    “You’re
back early,” she said accusingly, hiding the bag behind her, which only served
to draw his attention to it.
    “I
missed you,” he said simply, and she smiled at his obvious sincerity.
    “Really?
That’s so sweet,” Christine said, casually dropping the bag into the hotel
closet before coming up to him to give him a hug.
    Nick
breathed the smell of her hair, savoring her closeness. They stood like that
for a moment, then Christine drew back a little to look at him, a twinkle in
her eye.
    “I
hope you didn’t abandon Kate,” she teased. Nick shrugged, keeping his arms
around her.
    “She’ll
live. I didn’t even want to come in the first place, though I’m glad I did
now,” he confessed, squeezing her a little. Christine laughed, moving away.
    “Bad
boy,” she said, sitting down in an armchair, kicking off her shoes and tucking
her legs under her.
    “Have
you eaten?” he asked, moving to the hotel phone, where a room service menu was
propped.
    “No,
but I’m not really hungry,” she demurred, her expression hard to read. Nick
thought he saw a mixture of embarrassment and excitement, and wondered again
what was going on with her. He remembered the bag.
    “You
went shopping?” Christine nodded, and this time, there was no mistaking the mischief
in her face.”What did you buy?”
    “Well…”
Christine wasn’t sure she wanted to go through with this. It seemed like a good
idea