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Kissing Trick
by C. D. Yates
Category: Romance
Description: They've Got Image Problems... Reggie Snow is the author of the popular YA Paddy Dimple series. Her childhood, best friend, Dr. Patrick "Trick" McCullough is a former playboy, current OBGYN. They've each got some image problems. She's unexpectedly pregnant, not a great thing for a woman who's primary audience consists of impressionable teens. And he's on the nurses' naughty list; always a problem for a randy man who's seen most of the single women in his small town naked without sleeping with any of them. Besides, Trick's starting to realize it might be time to settle down if he wants to increase his patient list to include the pregnant mamas waddling around town. That can be fixed? They decide to work together by playing married until Reggie's baby's born. She hopes that her pregnancy won't bag her latest book's sales or encourage young adults to have unwed pregnancies. He hopes a family-man image will destroy his bad-boy bachelor reputation so he can deliver babies and heal more women in his small town of Hadley Falls, Vermont. As long as they don't fall in love?or into bed. Easy to say, until she starts kissing Trick.
eBook Publisher: The Wild Rose Press/Champagne Rose, 2009
readerwise.com Release Date: November 2009
 
18 Reader Ratings:
Available eBook Formats: OEBFF Format (IMP) [290 KB]
Words: 65377
Reading time: 186-261 min.
All Other formats: Printing DISABLED, Read-aloud DISABLED
Trick tried to fight the desire rising in him like a flood; he wanted to kiss the woman he held. Not just kiss her, but possess her, take her, and brand her. This was Reggie! Not any woman, but his friend. His best friend, the person who understood him better than anyone he'd ever known. The one who accepted him, faults and all, the only person outside his family that he knew he could count on for anything.
She was the sister he'd never had, for crying out loud.
She'd helped him build a tree fort when they were nine. They'd played baseball for hours. Come football season, she could throw the most beautiful spiral pass he'd ever seen. They'd shared confidences, experimented with stolen cigarettes at fourteen, and laughed about what went on between his older brother and her teenage neighbor behind translucent curtains. They'd been roommates, study buddies, and party pals in college.
But they'd never, ever kissed.
And right now, that was all he wanted to do.
"Reg," he whispered, and lowered his head, wanting to take her mouth with his, wanting to taste her. But when he tried to capture her lips with his own, he found himself kissing the air beside her face; she leaned up to press her cheek to his before she slipped from his grasp.
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