“I feel good about pancakes. I feel even better about pancakes after sex—”
“Oh, but I don’t think—” Her hand lifted self-consciously to her messy hair.
“Don’t worry, I thought for us,” Luke said, bending his knees to lift her, throwing her lean weight over his shoulder.
“What the heck is happening right now?” she shrieked, banging a palm against his back.
He smacked her ass. “This, City, is what you get for starting a fling with a firefighter.”
Then he carried her to the living room couch and proceeded to show her exactly how hot that fling was going to be.
Chapter 20
“Is lover boy going to be here?” Simon asked, as they approached Tucker’s.
“Yeah, we are not calling him that,” Jordan muttered as she swiped on pink lip gloss and dropped the tube back in her purse.
“All I’m saying is that the night with Firefighter Hunk has given you a nice bounce in your step. The glow and whatnot.”
“I hope I don’t act this weird after you hook up with someone,” Jordan muttered.
Simon gave a long sigh. “I can’t even remember. It’s been so long.”
“No luck with your baker?” she asked as they walked up the steps to the front door.
“I think I scare him,” Simon said glumly.
Jordan opened the door and gestured him inside. “Then he doesn’t deserve you.”
Simon grinned down at her, kissing her cheek before entering the noisy bar. “I like you all sexed-up. You’re happy.”
She paused a moment before following him, the truth of his words settling around her. She was happy.
When Luke had dropped her off at her house that morning, they hadn’t talked about what came next. And ever since, she’d been telling herself that the fact that she couldn’t stop smiling was due to the rather fabulous orgasms and not something more.
But the way her body was buzzing in anticipation of seeing him again made her worry that she might seriously be in over her head.
The fact that she’d screened two of her boss’s calls that afternoon confirmed it. The clock was ticking down, her time in Lucky Hollow increasingly limited.
And though Jordan knew her career reputation was on seriously shaky ground, she couldn’t seem to think about anything but the fact that Luke had said he’d be at Tucker’s tonight….
She spotted him almost immediately, with that sort of feminine awareness that came with knowing another person.
Luke hadn’t seen her yet. He was with Charlie and Ryan at the pool table in the back, dressed in jeans, a white T-shirt, and the usual backward cap, beer in hand. He laughed at something Charlie said, looking as easygoing as she’d ever seen him, and Jordan’s stomach clenched with something that felt like an odd combination of want and…
Yeah, just want. She’d go with that, no matter what her beating heart said.
He turned at precisely that moment, his hazel eyes finding hers across the crowded, noisy bar.
His laugh stalled, but unlike their previous encounters, where his face went wary at the sight of her, he gave her a slow, private smile, followed by a quick wink.
“Oh, honey. I know that look.”
Jordan turned toward the feminine voice and met the playful gaze of Hailey. “Yes, I’ve recently learned that you probably know that look firsthand.”
The pretty brunette gave a delighted laugh as she handed over a glass of wine. “He told you.”
“Uh-huh,” Jordan said, taking the wine. “Because you didn’t. What happened to girl power? Sisters before misters?”