Worth the Weight by Mara Jacobs Read Free Book Online

soon, and quickly left.
    He took his beer in his free hand and tapped the neck of it against the top of Lizzie’s bottle in a toast. “Here’s to getting to know each other again ,”
    “Yes. Here’s to getting to know each other again.” She raised the bottle to her lips and drank. No sissy sip for his Liz. You can take the girl out of da Yoop, but you can’t take da Yoop out of the girl. No sir, she took a good size d gulp that left her sexy lips wet. He could barely draw his eyes away from them.
    He tried to focus on what she’d just said. “To tell you the truth, Liz, I’m surprised to hear you say that.”
    She looked confused. “Say what?”
    “Say that you’re glad to see me, that you look forward to getting reacquainted. You know, we didn’t end on such a good note.” His voice was cautious, feeling her out.
    “That’s true, but it was a long time ago. We were just kids.”
    “Yeah. Kids.”
    “Besides, I forgave you a long time ago. Life’s too short to hold grudges,” she said with a conviction that almost sounded rehearsed.
    “You forgave me? For what?”
    “For dumping me because I wouldn’t sleep with you.”
    “That’s not how I remember it, Liz.” His voice was soft, controlled, his eyes held hers.
    “That’s exactly how I remember it. What’s your spin on the whole thing?”
    “First of all, I don’t ‘spin’ things, that’s for you big city folks. Second of all, I didn’t dump you because you wouldn’t sleep with me. I broke up with you because you were just about to sleep with me.”
    She took in his state ment, mentally chewed on it, then spa t it out at him. “That’s bull. I wasn’t about to sleep with you.”
    “Oh yeah you were.”
    The normally articulate Liz could only come back with, “Nah-unh.”
    “We were close, Liz. Remember? Your resistance had just about crumbled, it wouldn’t have taken too many more nights down at the beach to get you to cave.”
    She looked away from him and took her hand back, as if stung. Stung by the truth . She wouldn’t admit it, but she knew he was right.
    “You’re right.” She said it so quietly, he wasn’t sure he’d heard her.
    “What?”
    She looked back at him, her cute little chin held up high. “I said, you’re right. It probably wouldn’t have taken many more nights at the beach. I was getting pretty desperate by the end of those evenings.”
    He couldn’t help but let out a little snort . “ You were getting pretty desperate? I think we well established that the rumor you could die from blue balls was untrue. Never had a man gone home so unsatisfied so often and been able to walk the next day.”
    She winced, as if feeling the pain that he would endure on those nights. No way she could imagine how bad it had been.
    “I didn’t understand then how much... ah... pressure you felt when we’d be together.”
    “Pressure? Geez, Liz, you had me hard from the moment I’d pick you up right through to dropping you off. Gran never could understand why I’d show er right before a date with you, then need to run to the shower as soon as I got home. Thank God for loud showers and lots of soap.”
    Her curiosity won out over her embarrassment and she asked, “Lots of soap?”
    As always, he was amused by her innocence. “Lots of lather, makes the hands very slick, able to...you know... a lot quicker.” And as always, he wanted to educate her, but not be too crude with her.
    He knew the moment she got it. The pink on her neck and cheeks turned a crimson red. “I don’t know what to say. Do I apologize for that? Sending you home in that state?” She had a teasing lilt to her voice and he was happy to see that he hadn’t turned her off with his blunt talk. On the contrary, her eyes seemed to shine.
    “No need for apologies, I know that you went home pretty stirred up, too. I made sure of that.”
    “Yes I did, and I...” she cut herself off.
    “You what?” She shook her head and Finn put a coaxing tone