Doctor's Delight(69)

Susie stepped back. “So, what do you think?”

Cherry thought she’d never looked prettier. Susie had pinned her hair up in some intricate knot that left soft curls trailing down her cheeks, and a few neatly arranged thick curls down her back. The dress fit like a dream – no, she hadn’t put on fifty pounds since she’d bought it, as she’d convinced herself. The medium-heeled black pumps with the lacy effect were gorgeous. Her little clutch was chic. Maxie had done a light make-up on her, bringing out the blue of her eyes, the pink of her cheeks, and the shine of her lips. Little gold drops hung from her ears.

She’d never looked prettier.

“Well?” Maxie raised her brows.

“I am scared shitless.”

“I can’t believe you’re spewing out those foul words from between fifty dollar lip-sticked lips.”

“I’m shaking so much I think I need to sit down.”

“I don’t friggin’ think so. No creasing the dress.” Maxie angled her head. “I do believe that’s the doorbell. Prince Hottie has arrived.”

“I don’t have a doorbell.” Turning around, Cherry bit her lip anxiously while eyeing her friend. “Susie, I don’t think I can do this.”

“Too late. You got the dress, the fifty dollar lipstick from Max, and a hot doctor who wants to shag you senseless. Way too late to back out now.” Stepping aside, Susie grinned and gestured. “Out you go.”

“I’m so scared, what if I stuff this up and—” Cherry gasped as Susie placed a hand at her back and shoved her out the bedroom door. She cannoned into a hard chest, felt familiar warm hands grab her upper arms, and looked up into green eyes. “Sorry, Rick. My bloody friends aren’t very subtle and…” He was eyeing her so closely that she trailed to a halt. “Oh no, I’m not dressed right, am I?”

Rick’s answer was to simply crowd her back into the bedroom and shut the door in her surprised friend’s faces.

“I’ll change,” she babbled. “I’ll get this off and—”

“Oh, you’ll get it off, all right,” he breathed, his eyes flaring hot. “But I’ll be doing the taking off, and damned if this dinner isn’t going to kill me.”

“Huh?”

“Ever hear of binding ones breasts so no one knows you have it?” Lowering his head, he breathed hotly into her ear, “I’m going to have to bind my cock so no one knows I have a hard-on to rival a flag pole.”

As his words registered, she started to laugh, only to have his mouth crushing down upon hers cut off her merriment.

His kiss was ravishing, hard, his lips slanting over hers and his tongue sweeping deep, taking from her and giving no quarter. A big palm clapped upon one of her buttocks to squeeze her and then jerk her up close, his hard thigh sliding between her two until he was pressed against her heat.

The unexpected passion he greeted her with made her legs turn to jelly, and Cherry leaned into him, glorying in his strength, his obvious desire for her. And truth be told, when he turned a little he-man, it made her heart pound a little faster.

Coming up for air, Rick leaned his forehead against hers and sucked in a deep breath. “How about we blow this party and go to bed instead?”

“Hey!” A loud thumping sounded on the door. “Hey! Rick! Leave her alone! I swear, you destroy our efforts and I’ll kick your arse!”

“I’m a doctor,” he retorted, even as his eyes started twinkling. “You’re the nurse. You don’t tell me what to do.”

“Oh yeah?” Susie yelled. “Well let me clue you into something, Doctor. I’m the nurse, and I can make your life very difficult, very difficult indeed. If you ever want to see the roster to check out Cherry’s work allocation so you can have your private and dirty rendezvous with her, you better do as I tell you!”

Cherry giggled.

Rolling his eyes, Rick kept one arm around her waist while turning and swinging the door open to reveal Susie and Maxie standing on the other side with their arms folded and frowns on their faces. “And to think all this time we doctors thought we ran things.”

“You doctors wouldn’t know what the hell to do with hospitalized patients without we nurses running things, “ Susie retorted. “Oh my God, look what you did to Cherry’s lipstick.”

“What the hell?” Maxie grabbed the tube from her pocket and proceeded to reapply it to Cherry’s lips. “Did you lick it off or something, Rick?”

“Or something.” He smiled wolfishly.

Stepping back, Maxie ran her eyes critically over the both of them and nodded. “You’ll both do.”