The Playboy's Plain Jane. Cara Colter

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СКАЧАТЬ Day. He planned to sign up for a tour on the Space Shuttle the first year his company grossed five hundred million dollars. Dylan McKinnon prided himself in the fact he was afraid of nothing. He’d earned the nickname “Daredevil.”

      He took chances. That’s why he was where he was today.

      It was also the reason his baseball career had ended almost before it started, the voice of reason tried to remind him.

      He overrode the voice of reason, took a deep breath, spat it out. “Would you like to go for dinner sometime?”

      Silence.

      “Katie? Are you there?”

      “You haven’t even sent the fourth bouquet to Heather yet,” she said.

      “The what?”

      “The fourth one. The nice-to-know-you-I’m-such-a-great-guy-I’m-sending-flowers-but-I’m-moving-on one.”

      He felt a shiver go up and down his spine. How was it that Katie knew him so well? He thought of the year he had known her, those intelligent eyes scrutinizing him, missing nothing. Assessing, mostly correctly, that he was a self-centered, selfish kind of guy.

      “Okay,” he said. “Send it. Instead of the I’m-sorry one.”

      “I already sent that one.”

      Little Miss Efficient. “Okay, send the other one, too, then.”

      “Do you want the message to read, ‘It’s been great knowing you. I wish you all the best’?”

      He had become predictable. Hell. “Sure,” he said, “That’s fine.”

      “Anything else?”

      “You tell me. Am I available now that the fourth bouquet is being sent?”

      “Of course you are,” she said sweetly.

      Sweet had been one of the components his sister had used to define decent.

      “Great. When would you like to go for dinner?”

      “Never,” she said firmly.

      He was stunned, but he realized there was only one reason little miss Katie Wholesome would have said no to him. And it wasn’t what his sister had said, either, that no decent girl would go out with him!

      “You have a guy, huh?”

      Pause. “Actually, I have a customer. If you’ll excuse me.” And then she hung up. Katie Pritchard hung up on him.

      He set down the phone, stunned. And then he began to laugh. Be careful what you wish for, he thought. He’d wished for a surprise, and she had delivered him one. He’d just been rejected by Katie, the flower girl. He should have been fuming.

      But for the first time in a long time he felt challenged. He could make her say yes.

      Then what, he asked himself? A funny question for a man who absolutely prided himself in not asking questions about the future when it came to his dealings with the opposite sex.

      Despite the rather racy divorcée title, Katie would be the kind of girl who didn’t go out with a guy without a chaperone, a written contract and a rule book. The perfect girl to invite to dinner at his sister’s house. That was the then what, and nothing beyond that.

      So why did his mind ask, What would it be like to kiss her?

      “Buddy,” he told himself, “what are you playing with?”

      For some reason, even though she was pretending to be the plainest girl in Hillsboro, he could picture her lips, exactly. They were wide and plump, and even without a hint of lipstick on them, they practically begged a man to taste them.

      He tried to think what Heather’s lips looked like. All he could think of was red grease smeared on his shirt collar. He shuddered, even though Heather was not a girl who would normally make a man shudder.

      “Playing with Katie is like toying with a saint,” he warned himself. But he was already aware that he felt purposeful. Katie intrigued him, and he wanted her to come out for dinner with him. He was also about to prove to his sister how wrong she could be. About everything.

      Now, how was he going to convince Katie to go out with him? He bet it wouldn’t be hard at all. If he applied a little pressure to that initial resistance, she’d cave in to his charm like an old mine collapsing.

      An old mine collapsing, he told himself happily. Take that, Steinbeck.

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