Touching Lace (Vaughn)

Lacey rolled her eyes. “Can you believe he wanted me back?”

Nick had figured as much. “What happened to Christy?”

She tried valiantly to contain a laugh. “He caught her on his dining room table with a man she picked up while jogging in the park.”

Nick smirked. “Serves the bastard right.”

“That’s what I told him.”

They both started laughing. As they imagined Evan walking in on such a display, they laughed harder.

“I also told him he might want to go see a doctor and get tested for HIV since it’s clear Christy isn’t all that finicky about who she sleeps with. He went a little white after that. The idiot.”

Nick let his finger trail a path down her cheek to her neck. He stroked her pulse and felt it quicken under his fingertip.

“So, what made you want to kick him?” he asked, only half interested in the conversation, because Lacey had begun to smooth her hands down his sides.

Lacey licked her lips, her gaze never once straying away from his mouth. She was just as aroused as he. Damn, if only they were alone.

“Lacey?” Nick prompted.

“Hmm?” she murmured, dazed.

“Why’d you kick Evan?”

Lacey blinked, looked into his eyes and said “Oh, right. Well, he told me I was the best thing that ever happened to him.”

“And that made you want to kick him? Seriously?”

“No. To tell you the truth, I just felt like it.”

“You are one scary lady.”

“You don’t sound upset by that.”

He winked and leaned down to whisper into her ear, “Seeing you in action is a major turn on for me, baby.”

Lacey groaned. “Lord, I wish we were alone.”

“My thought exactly,” he growled. Unable to help himself any longer, Nick let his tongue dart out and touch the soft shell of her ear. He tasted the sweetness of her silky skin and instantly went hard. He heard a few grumbles from the other side of the room and realized Lacey’s brothers were getting quite an eyeful.

Nick lifted a few inches, stared hard at Lacey and promised, “Tonight, after you’re completely moved in and your family has finally left us alone, you and I are going to have our own private little party.”

Lacey beamed up at him and asked, “Because of our one month anniversary?”

Nick shook his head. “Nope.”

Lacey gave him a puzzled look. “Er then why?”

“Because I finally got the woman of my dreams,” Nick answered tenderly as he imagined waking up to a soft, warm Lacey every day for the rest of his life.

Nope, it definitely didn’t get any better than that.