“God, I missed you,” he groaned. “I can’t believe I have a stupid-ass game to play. Why can’t we just skip the Cardinals and go straight to my hotel and screw our brains out?”
She laughed against his chest, starbursts of happiness exploding like fireworks in her heart. “Do you need me to hose you down?”
“You know it, baby. Hey, do you want to watch the game in the players’ box with the other wives?”
“The other wives? I’m not a wife.”
“You damn well will be.” He dug in the back pocket of his baseball pants, which looked so tight it seemed impossible that anything could fit back there. The ring, when he finally presented it, winked at her with sassy, diamond-studded attitude. I’m here, I’m gorgeous, get used to me, it seemed to say.
“Put that on, wife,” he growled at her. “Or I’ll have to tie you up and put it on for you.”
She slipped it on, since when Mike went into commando mode, she’d do anything he said. And because the ring was dazzling. And because she loved him and couldn’t wait to marry him. “I get it, Solo. You hit the major leagues and think you can boss me around. Don’t forget who wields the hose in this relationship.”
He crowded her against the wall. “Wield my hose, baby. I dare you.”
Desire flared between them in a sweet, white-hot flash.
“Hey!” A laughing male voice interrupted them. Donna peeked around Mike’s torso to see a group of spectacularly fit ballplayers striding past. “Rookie. Get a room.”
“Or a broom closet. Something,” added another.
“What the Jeter are they thinking?” muttered a third.
No one understood why Mike and Donna burst out laughing. Then again, they had a habit of doing that and absolutely no intention of stopping anytime soon.
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JENNIFER BERNARD is a graduate of Harvard and a former news promo producer. The child of academics, she confounded her family by preferring romance novels to . . . well, any other books. She left big city life for true love in Alaska, where she now lives with her husband and stepdaughters. She’s no stranger to book success, as she also writes erotic novels under a naughty secret name not to be mentioned at family gatherings.
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