“Lucus?”She found him on the bed in the master suite, lying with his arms crossed behind his head, glaring at the ceiling as though it had done him wrong in some way.”

“(Rude Scrabble)You played this game with your parents?” he asked skeptically.Yep. And Mom always won, the dirty bitch. I guess being older she’d been around more than me and Carrie,” Sophie said, extracting replacement tiles from the box. “Although I don’t know what Dad’s excuse was. lack of imagination, I guess. Your turn.”

“One of the best lovers in Hollywood. What would a title like that encompass exactly? she wondered. Technique? Enthusiasm? Or was it more about equipment?”

“What exactly did having needs mean, while he was on the subject? That Delaney needed to have sex? that she craved an orgasm? And if that were the case, why couldn’t she just take care of the matter on her won in the privacy of her home without putting him through all this torture? Anything was preferable to the thought of her being with Jake.”

“I’m not too heavy?” she asked. He had just come off crutches, after all.Sophie, you’re practically a midget,” he reminded her.”

“Poppy: What makes you think I’m having dinner with you?Jake: Because you can’t sit in your room and eat ice cream and chips two nights in a row. You’ll get scurvy. You need vitamin C.”

“Later she would think about how he’d snuck up on her so silently. The man was on crutches – what was he, a ninja or something?”

“He foll0wed her as she crossed to the four-station apparatus. His attention was glued to her butt the whole way. realizing what he was doing, he snapped his gaze away and checked to make sure no one had noticed.Nope. They were all too busy staring at Jamie’s butt.”

“Suddenly he caught his reflection in the mirror behind her. His face was twisted into a dark scowl, and he was standing there naked, with a boner, and another man’s business card in his hand.He looked like a dick.”

“Don’t freak out, I’m getting into the bed,” he said.”

“Excuse me, your attention please.” He waited until the whole floor had stopped what it was doing and turned to face him. For a split second his impulse control kicked in, but by then his mouth was fully engaged. “For the record, Claire Marsden and I are not having sex.”

“Sadly, however, the sight of her generous D cups no longer sparked an ounce of interest from Little Sam, the man in charge of social activities.”

“New hair, new clothes-the classic relationship break-up makeover,” Jake said.Delaney stared at him for a beat. In a way, he was right. She was breaking up with Sam. He just didn’t know it.”

“Forgive me for being the stupidest man on the planet?”“Careful. You’re talking about the man I love.”

“Just leave me alone, I want to be alone,” she said when Jack tried to open the car door. She hit the lock, and wound the window up. Since the roof was down, it was a fairly pointless exercise.”