Sisters in Love (Snow Sisters, Book One: Love in Bloom Series #1) by Melissa Foster Read Free Book Online

beside her, his leg
touching hers.
    She stared at his muscular thigh, feeling
like a fool and wanting to touch him all at once.
    “Those things are dangerous. Let me check
your ankle.” He moved off the curb and crouched in front of her. He
lifted her leg at the knee and slid his hand over her ankle and up
the sleek leather boot. She felt the heat of his palm all the way
up the back of her calf. He slid them down slowly, as if he’d done
it many times before, and slipped her stockinged foot carefully
from the boot. Her foot dangled in the air between them.
    Danica’s head spun. It had been way too long
since she’d felt her body react to a man’s touch. She leaned back
and closed her eyes. “It’s fine,” she whispered. One of his hands
softly held her calf, sending a tingling sensation up her thighs.
His other hand held her foot. His palms were warm and big. She
wondered what they would feel like moving up her leg. Blake wiggled
her foot, sending a searing pain through her ankle. Her eyes flew
open. “Ouch!” She sat up and pulled her leg from his grasp, causing
him to lose his balance and fall forward. He caught himself with
his arms on either side of her waist, his face just above her
chest. For a second, they just stared at each other. She held her
breath, then realized he was doing the same.
    He lowered his elbows, his lips coming closer
to hers. “You okay?” he whispered.
    His eyes bore into hers.
    “You’ve asked me that a lot lately.”
    He smiled. “I guess I have.”
    God, he’s impossibly gorgeous . Danica
looked around, and even in her drunken state, she knew they must
have been quite the sight splayed out along the curb of the side
street in front of the bar. “We should move,” she said, slipping
off her other boot.
    “Right.” He pushed from the ground and then
offered her a hand. Danica sat on the curb, unwilling to move. She
didn’t trust herself not to jump him. She felt like Belinda or
Kaylie. All she could think about were his lips.
     “Wait one second.” He grabbed her boots
from the ground. “Wow. No wonder you fell. These are killer
heels.”
    “Where are your girlfriends?” she asked as
she reached for his hand. The icy road beneath her bare feet made
her shiver.
    He pulled her to her feet, and she
immediately collapsed back to the curb with a cry of pain.
    “Uh-oh, you did do some damage. Want me to
take you to the emergency room? It might be broken.”
    Emergency room? She couldn’t think past the
wonder of where his entourage was. She shook her head. “Where are
your girlfriends?” she asked again.
    “They’re not my girlfriends. I can’t help it
if they clung to me.” He sat down beside her, his shoulder touching
Danica’s.
    She liked the feel of him. It had been so
long since she’d been with a man. She’d almost forgotten the way a
man’s touch could make her heart soar. Maybe just this once, just
one night? Behave, woman , she told herself. Now you sound
like Belinda. You know he’s a player . Don’t
rationalize .
    “No emergency room. I’m fine. It’s just
twisted. I just need to get home. I live right around the corner,
at The Heights condominiums. I can walk.”
    “No, you can’t.”
    Pfft! She swatted the air. “I’m fine.
Really, go.”
    “How about if I just drive you to your
complex?”
    Danica thought of Belinda again, and reality
sobered her. “It’s okay. I’ll call a cab. Thanks, though.”
    “You sure? How about if I stay with you while
you wait?” Blake looked at her with empathy, and Danica thought she
saw desire hovering in his eyes.
    “I’m really not that kind of girl, even if
I’m drunk. Maybe you should have gone home with the Barbie
twins.”
    Blake’s jaw dropped. “Look, you don’t even
know me. I wasn’t going to try anything, and I think that’s pretty
presumptuous of you.” The hurt in his voice was palpable.
    “I’m sorr—”
    Blake was already heading for his car. He
waved his hand dismissively behind