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“We’re not threatening. We’re playing golf.”
“I’ll be playing golf,” Ted said. “It remains to be seen what John Travolta here’ll be doing.” He gave Emma a slow smile and walked away.
As Emma watched him disappear, she actually felt weak-kneed for a moment. If Ted was this bone-melting at twenty-two, what would he be like in another ten years?
Kenny took her in his arms, and she got weak-kneed all over again. Her instinctive attraction to him irritated her.
“You just put your eyeballs right back in your head, Lady Emma.”
“Excuse me?”
“Don’t play dumb. I know exactly what you’re doing. You’re mentally screening candidates to put an end to your you-know-what. Your virginity,” he added, in case she’d missed the point. “And my little pal there just moved to the top of your list.”
“Don’t be ridiculous. He’s much too young.” She couldn’t resist adding, “But very sexy.”
“Yeah, well, take if from me . . . your friend Francesca won’t like it too much if you try to seduce her baby boy.”
She stumbled. “Her baby boy?”
He led her back into the dance steps. “Not to mention what the Antichrist might have to say about it. He has a lot of pride in that son of his.”
“He’s their son?” She blinked her eyes. “Oh, my . . . she always refers to him as Teddy. I never thought . . .”
“Theodore Day Beaudine. The only child of Francesca and you-know-who.”
“I got the impression that her son was much younger, still a child. I never thought . . .”
“Well, start thinking now, Mrs. Robinson, because he’s definitely not a child, and he’s off-limits to you.”
“I wasn’t really planning to seduce him. He’s young enough to have been one of my students. How could you think such an awful thing?”
“Do I have to remind you of a certain unfortunate incident two nights ago?”
“That was different. I intended to pay you.”
He chuckled, then moved his hand on her back. She felt his finger slide along the small band of skin between her top and the waistband of her jeans. She couldn’t tell if it was accidental or not, and she gave an involuntary shiver.
His voice deepened a notch. “Until this minute, it never occurred to me that you might be so desperate for sex you’d actually prey on one of our town’s innocent children.”
“He’s hardly—”
“I may have to abandon my principles and go to bed with you after all.”
She stumbled again, and he lifted one dark eyebrow. “Although, to be honest about it, I don’t know if I’m up to all the work involved in having sex with a you-know-what. Still, I guess there comes a time in every man’s life when he has to sacrifice himself for the greater good of the community.”
She deliberately stepped on his foot. “Sorry.”
“You did that on purpose!”
“I most certainly did not.”
For a moment he said nothing, then he gave a long, put-upon sigh. At the same time, he slipped his thumb beneath the hem of her top. “All right, you win. I’ll let you mess around with me.”
Even though she knew he was teasing, she felt this funny quiver in her middle. Then she thought about picking up a beer pitcher from one of the tables and pouring it over his head. How had so much arrogance gotten packaged in one man? “Thanks, but I couldn’t put you to the trouble.”
He drew her closer so
her breasts snuggled against his chest. “Not much trouble. I’ll just lie there and let you do all the work. You’d probably like that best anyway.”
