Читать книгу The Nanny Bombshell - Michelle Celmer - Страница 2
Оглавление“If I tried to kiss you right now, you wouldn’t stop me.”
The thought of Coop leaning over the console and pressing his lips to hers made her heart flutter and her stomach bottom out. But she squared her shoulders and said, “If you tried to kiss me, I’d deck you.”
He threw his head back and laughed.
“You don’t think I would do it?”
“No, you probably would, just to prove how tough you are. Then you would give in and let me kiss you anyway.”
“The depth of your arrogance is truly remarkable.”
“It’s one of my most charming qualities,” he said, but his grin said that he was definitely teasing her this time.
Maybe the confidence was a smoke screen, or this was his way of testing the waters. Maybe he really liked her, but being so used to women throwing themselves at him, the possibility of being rejected scared him.
Weirdly enough, the idea that under the tough-guy exterior there could be a vulnerable man made him that much more appealing.
