Meddling in Manhattan by Kirsten Osbourne Read Free Book Online

to bed right away."
    "I wasn't exactly kicking and screaming!"
    "No, you weren't, and that makes me very happy."  He rolled to his side and out of bed, striding naked across the room to get the room service menu which he brought back to the bed.  "What are you hungry for?"
    She'd been only slightly hungry earlier, but now she was downright peckish, to use a British word she loved.  "Why don't you get me all of page three?"
    He laughed.  "All of page three, huh?  Without even looking to see what's on page three?"
    She sat up beside him on the bed, making sure she kept the sheet tucked firmly under her arms to conceal her breasts.  She rested her head against his shoulder as she read the menu as well. 
    "You know it doesn't matter if you keep them covered, right?" he asked, a gleam in his eye.
    "What?" she asked, pretending she didn't know what he was talking about.
    "You don't have to keep your breasts covered.  I've licked them and touched them enough that I know their exact shape and look.  There's no need to bother."
    She blushed, shaking her head at him.  "Well, that wasn't exactly gentlemanly of you to point out, was it?"
    He laughed, the sound filling the room.  "Maybe not, but guess what?"
    "What?"
    "I liked looking at them, touching them, and licking them.  I'm not going to pretend I didn't."
    Addie decided to ignore him, as she read over the menu.  "Can I get a burger, fries, cheesecake, and a Pepsi?"
    "Pepsi?  Are you kidding me?"
    "No, I love Pepsi."
    He groaned.  It was one of the rare hotels that carried both Coke and Pepsi products.  "I'm a Coke lover.  I don't know how we're going to make this work!"
    "So if I accidentally spill Pepsi all over myself, you won't lick it off?"
    He grinned at her.  "If anything could make me a Pepsi lover..."  He picked up the phone for room service.  "How do you want your burger?"
    "Medium well."  She got up to use the restroom, and pulled the sheet off the bed, wrapping it around her completely sarong style.  She wasn't going to walk around naked.  She'd leave that for him.
     
    *****
     
    An hour later, they'd eaten and set the dishes out in the hallway for the housekeeping staff to pick up.  She wasn't certain what she was supposed to do.  It wasn't quite bedtime yet, but she hadn't brought her computer to do book work on.  Since opening her store, she had spent all her time at home doing the store's financial work.  Adding the daily numbers, calculating costs, working on payroll.  It took a couple of hours every night.  Added to the number of hours she spent at the store, there was little time for anything else. 
    "Tell me about this place we're going to!" she finally said, wanting to hear about her honeymoon location. 
    "Oh, it used to be one of those fancy places where the idle rich would go to 'take treatments' back in the 1800s.  Now, it's been restored to be as much like it was back then, but with the modern touches we need.  There are carriage rides throughout the grounds, and the hot springs are available to soak in.  We can rent horses and go horseback riding, or even wander to an old fashioned looking mercantile that has the 1880 price of everything right alongside the 2015 price.  That's one of my favorite places to go.  I love to learn about history!"
    "Oh, it sounds wonderful!"
    "It is.  The decor is something straight out of a history book, but hidden behind little panels are plugs for our chargers.  The bathroom has a beautiful old fashioned claw foot tub with hot and cold running water.  The lobby is the same as it was the day they opened, and you sign in on this giant register.  Of course, they keep the computers out of sight, but you can tell they're tapping away at the keys when they're checking people in."
    She smiled.  "I'm going to love it!"
    "I really think you are.  I love the restaurant, because the servers dress in the same uniform they used back in 1874 when the resort opened, but people can dress however they