Chapter 14

The woman was one surprise after another, and Nick was more intrigued by her and interested in her than he would have thought possible.

Don’t forget “turned on by” while we’re at it, pal.

Not likely, he thought. No way he could forget the hot, sharp attraction, even through all the laughter and surprises.

The first surprise had been the tie-dyed T-shirt. She’d gone to some trouble, he’d bet, to come up with that. He doubted she carried one in her suitcase.

The pearls were a surprise, too. Pearls and a T-shirt? But she made it work.

Surprise number three was that she’d tossed him her car keys. He hadn’t expected that. She was a woman who seemed to know what she wanted and how she planned to get there. Letting someone else take charge, even for

something so simple as driving them to dinner, didn’t fit with the woman he’d been coming to know.

The next surprise was how well she took the news that the restaurant he was taking her to was a few miles out of town. He had expected at least a t