Page 52 of On the Line

Lauren

Doing okay. Jameson’s here.

Petra

?!?!

Lauren

My nanny went home early. He watched the girls and made dinner. Now we’re snowed in.

Petra

Morgan, Paige, and I are all jumping around right now, and Aleksandr is looking at us like we’re annoying him.

I laugh out loud, imagining the scene, and Jameson’s head snaps over, looking at me. “Sorry, it’s just Petra texting me right now.”Go back to watching the movie so I can tell my friend about you being here.

Petra

Please tell me you’re planning to sleep with him?

I flip my phone facedown on the couch, praying he wasn’t looking at the screen in my hand when that message came through. But his small snort is proof that he did see it. He lifts his arm, putting it around my shoulders and pulling me to his side. “Tell her it’s none of her damn business.”

My shoulders shake with laughter. “That’s only going to rile her up more.”

“Whatever,” he says, and I can feel him shrug.

Lauren

Jameson says it’s none of your damn business ;-)

Petra

Holy shit!!! Girl ... DO IT!

Lauren

I’m leaving this conversation now ...

Petra

Which means it’s going to happen. Eeeeeeeeeeeee!

Lauren

Good night ...

“Now who’s riling her up?” Jameson asks, letting out a chuckle. The feel of his warm breath across the top of my head has goose bumps rising all over my body, and reality sets in.I want this man.

But I can’t have him. Or rather, I could, for a night. But how could we go back to just friends after that? We couldn’t. And I’m not willing to lose the friendship, even though I suspect the sex would be amazing.

“Put the phone down,” he says.

“Now? When they’re all sitting around speculating whether we’re too busy having sex to respond?”

“Let them wonder,” he says, and he uses the hand that’s wrapped around me to grab my phone and toss it to the far end of the couch. Then he tugs me tighter against his side and says, “Now watch the damn movie and stop thinking about having sex with me.”

CHAPTER16

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