Page 15 of Yule Love Me

“I get it. Jesus! Your pun game is not good right now. Disturbing. Is this from pregnancy brain?”

“Nope. Just me. Being disgustingly happy.”

“Well, stop it.”

She whoops and then looks at the time, scrambling up. “I’ve got to get going. I’m seducing Kade tonight.”

Raising a brow, I stand up and cross my arms. “How do you seduce someone who wants it anyway? That seems like it doesn’t fit the definition of seduce?”

“Potato tomato,” she giggles.

“Oh god! Just go home. I’ll figure this out.”

“Here. I’ll help.” She wanders into my closet and comes back out with a sexy little maids costume that I wore one year. “Leave off the apron and just wear the little black nightie. Then add in those scrappy black sandals and wear the little lace halloween mask that you’ve got in there. I remember black thigh highs. Wear those too.”

She reaches over and floofs my hair up on my head. “Fluff it all up and add hairspray until it looks all sexy and wild and then wait until he gets here but have the door unlocked. Just don’t stand in the doorway. Holler for him to come in.”

“Why not answer the door?”

“If he’s anything like Kade you won’t be able to sit for a week if you do that! Those kinds of guys are fucking territorial as hell!”

“And you put up with that?”

She giggles again. “You’ll see.”

“Humph! Maybe he’ll see.”

“Yeah. Go with that. Can’t wait to see how it turns out.” Then she jogs out the door and I holler after her.

“You’re pregnant! Slow the hell down!”

“Got it!”

I close the door and walk back to my bedroom, staring at the outfit that Promise told me to wear.

I sigh and head for the shower. What do I have to lose? Certainly not my pride.

I groan and turn on my shower, the steam filling the room and fogging up the mirror so that I can’t see how freaking crazy I look right now.

“We’ll see how this goes. How the hell did it get this bad, woman?” I growl.

I fell in love with a man who apparently can go without sex like a freaking camel.

I found me a unicorn. Now I just need to seduce the bastard.

Whistling, I hop in the shower, scrubbing and moisturizing until I gleam with silky skin that I hope is freaking irresistible.

Can I make it work with the man who fired me? I don’t know. But surely I can get one night with him? Just something to keep me warm on those cold winter nights.

When everything goes to hell in a handbasket as it inevitably will. We can’t seem to help needling each other.

That’s not love is it? Not real love. Just lust.

CHAPTER 10

Jeremy

Iwait at the door and knock, sucking in a sharp breath and thinking about baseball stats and bugs and anything else I can think of to take my fucking dick down.

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