Craving Her Curves by Nora Stone Read Free Book Online

amusement clear in his voice. I grinned.
    “You’ll see when it comes out, won’t you?” I said, teasing. He laughed and I smiled at it.
    “I can’t get an advanced copy?” he asked. I snickered.
    “It’s not even done yet. It still has to go through the editor and I have to decide which pictures to use,” I said with a grin.
    “Ooo, which picture are you looking at?” he asked. I giggled.
    “Did you go through the trouble of getting my number just to call and pester me about the article?” I asked. Izzy hit me in the shoulder and mouthed something about being nice.
    “No, actually. See, I have these tickets... to this show this weekend, and I really don’t want to go alone...” he said, trailing off a bit. On the other end of the call, I sat there with my mouth literally hanging open as Izzy watched me, confused.
    “Are you asking me out?” I asked. Izzy’s eyes were the size of dinner plates.
    “Um, yeah. I am,” he said. I was completely and totally in shock. I looked at Izzy, mouth still hanging open and not saying a word. I didn’t know what to say. She snatched the phone from me.
    “Hi Joey, can you hold on a second please? Our boss is calling for us,” she said quickly into the phone before pushing the hold button and squealing.
    “What are you doing?” she asked. I shrugged.
    “I have no idea. I really didn’t see this one coming, Izzy,” I said. She punched me in the arm.
    “I don’t give a crap if you saw it coming or not! You are being asked out by Joey friggin’ Parker, so say yes!” she said. I swallowed and tried speaking again.
    “Hang on, I don’t think I really want to date anyone right now. Regardless of how really good looking and nice they happen to be,” Izzy gave me an outraged look and punched me in the arm again.
    “You shut up and say yes!” she said, holding the phone out to me with a determined look on her face.
    “Isobel...” I started.
    “No. You never, ever date. And the few times you have let someone stick around for a bit, they do something idiotic and you swear off dating again. I get it, you don’t want to play that game anymore. But he’s different, even you said he seems different. Every woman in this city would give their most expensive Prada bag to be in your place right now, and he went through all the trouble of finding your number and calling up here completely out of the blue, which had to be nerve wracking and...” I took the phone from her hand with a sigh.
    “Okay, I get it. I’ll say yes,” I said. Izzy grinned and hit the hold button again.
    “Joey?” I said.
    “Yes?” He said, drawing it out. I grinned.
    “... Tickets to what?” I asked.
    “Cirque du Soleil. Saturday night at 7,” he said. I smiled and looked up into Izzy’s expectant face. She looked so excited, I almost laughed.
    “I’d love to go with you,” I said. I heard Joey exhale and laugh softly.
    “Oh, thank God, I thought I’d just made an ass of myself by asking you,” he said. I giggled.
    “Let me give you my cell; I’m never here at my desk.  You just got lucky today,” I said.
    “I got lucky twice,” he said. I could almost hear the cute little wink that went along with that comment.

CHAPTER NINE
    I sobel and I walked into Mia’s together, glancing around for Jacinta. She’d told us to come in at four, that she’d just be finishing up with a client and that she’d added us to her schedule so that no one would put anything else there.
    “You‘ll look fabulous, Ms. Kline, I promise,” Jacinta’s voice came into the room before she did, walking just beside a woman in her early 50’s who always made me want to pray that I looked that good at that age.
    “You always seem to find the perfect pieces for me, Jacinta. How do you do that?” she asked with a grin. Jacinta laughed.
    “You’re easy to pull pieces for. You’ve got that timeless beauty that looks good with everything,” she said.
    “She’s right. You are