Page 295 of Under Her Skin
“You’re making me dizzy with all of your intellect, Blaine. Let’s go to that club over there. It’s all lit up and seems to be hopping. No going to your home to swim, eat, and have sex,” she says, then gestures for me to roll the window down to let my driver know I want to stopthere.
I roll the window down. “Can you drop us at the club, Mr. Green? We’ll hang out there while you go take your wife to dinner. My treat.” I just thought of that brilliant plan. That way I’ll have her to myself for the next couple ofhours.
“Oh, how nice of you, sir. Thanks so much!” he says, then rolls the window backup.
“That’ll take a couple of hours, Blaine. I meant a drink or two,” shesays.
“I’m not going to be pouring them down your throat, Delaney. We can dance, talk, and kiss some more. There’s more to do than just drink in these kinds ofplaces.”
“We can’t kiss anymore. That was a mistake,” she says as we pull to a stop in front of theclub.
Grabbing her hand, I get out, meet my driver at the door, and slide a couple of hundreds into his palm. “Give us at least two hours,please.”
He nods and smiles. “I like you two together. You balance each other out very well. Mrs. Green is going to love to meet you, Nurse Richards. I’ll have her with me when I come back for youtwo.”
“That sounds nice, Mr. Green,” she says, then I pull her away to go to the door with the loud music rocking behindit.
“I feel weird going out in scrubs,” she says as we goinside.
“Tomorrow we can go home first and change, then go out, if you wantto.”
She looks at me kind of funny as I pay the guy at the door, and he stamps our hands then we head into the crowd of people. Her hand is tight in mine as the sea of people make us stay close together. Pulling her through the people like this is slow going to get across the dance floor to the bar. So I pull her around in front of me and hold her tightly as I dance across the floor with her in myarms.
The surprised look on her face is priceless, then her arms go around my neck as she gets what I’m doing. “You’re verysmart.”
“I know,” I say, then kiss the tip of her nose. “You’re verybeautiful.”
“I know,” she says with nohesitation.
It’s pretty obvious she knows how beautiful she is. She knows she’s smart and talented too. She hasn’t got an insecure bone in her body, and her sweet, kind, giving soul pulls all of Delaney Richards together into one tight, littlepackage.
Picking her up when I reach the outer edge of the dance floor, I carry her to the bar as she smiles at me. “Name your poison,sugar.”
“I’ll have whatever you’re having,” she says as I place her feet on theground.
Pressing my lips to her ear, I say, “What I really want, they don’t servehere.”
She shakes her head and laughs. “I get it. Give me a gin andtonic.”
Wiggling my finger at the young bartender who can’t keep her eyes off me, I ask her, “Do you make a good gin andtonic?”
“I can make you a good anything, handsome,” she says, and I see my little redhead’s cheeks gored.
She holds her tongue, though, so I decide I’ll press it a bit. “Hey, honey, can you tell me what your specialtyis?”
The bartender, who I can tell is a really easy woman, is quick to say, “My specialty is the cock and balls. I can administer pleasure to them for hours.” She laughs a high-pitched laugh, then puts two fingers over her mouth. “Oh, you meant what drinks, didn’tyou?”
I barely catch Delaney as she cracks her neck, then leans over the bar. “Hey, bitch! Ease up there, honey. I guess you can’t see—he’s withme!”
“So?” the poor fool says, and I barely catch the empty shot glass that was sitting on the bar. Delaney snatches it up and throws it right at the other woman’shead.
“Whoa,” I say and take Delaney’s hands into mine. “Where did that comefrom?”
“Let’s go to your place. This place is making me sick!” shesays.
I find myself hurrying to leave as I hold her close to me again and dance her back across the dance floor. “I’ll get us a cab and call my driver to let him know he has the rest of the nightoff.”
“You do that,” she says as she looks into my eyes. “I want to have asleepover.”
