Bliss Drake has blue screened. Suffering from a broken heart and a dead computer, she finds herself standing in the middle of an electronics store nursing sweaty palms and lusty thoughts.
Tall, dark, and sexy, Brad Hoffman is a self-proclaimed nerd. When the beautiful black woman with a serious fear of computers starts talking about flinging herself into a display case at his favorite electronics store, he’s happy to offer his”¦erm”¦services.
Can a computer-phobic beauty and a sexy nerd ever sync up? Only if they can cobble together the right bits “n bytes!!
Brad looked into her wide, terror-filled, brown eyes and was torn between anger and pity. As her warm, musky scent enveloped him he gave up both those emotions and latched right onto lust. “You look like a woman who could use some help.”
Bliss glanced at the computer she held clutched in her arms like a lifeline. “I thought I’d give fixing it one more try.”
Brad just stared at her until she shrugged. “So sue me.”
“You are stubborn, I’ll give you that.”
“I prefer determined, single-minded, indomitable”¦”
“Pig headed, mulish, strong-willed”¦”
“Okay, okay.” She gave him a pretty pout but the wide, brown eyes sparked with humor. “I’ll admit I’m out of my league, here. I don’t suppose you’d help a girl.”
Brad reached for the computer in her arms and tried to tug it away from her. She held on for an uncomfortably long moment and then let go with a sigh. Brad handed it to the snotty nerd behind the counter. “Pull the hard drive on this for me, then hack the head off and bury it ten feet deep in unhallowed ground.”
The nerd took it with two fingers, as if it were painted with Swine Flu germs. “You are my hero.”
Brad saluted him, then wrapped an arm around Bliss’ shoulders and turned her toward the back of the store and the new computer section. “Come on Miss Bliss. Let’s get you a new baby to love.”
Her only response was a whimper as he dragged her toward the land of promise at the back of the store.
“This one’s pretty.”
Brad lifted an eyebrow at her and Bliss bit her lip. “Well it is.”
“I don’t care how pretty it is on the outside, if it’s ugly inside you’re not buying it.”
Bliss frowned. “You’re very bossy.”
Brad nodded. “Yes. I am. Now look at this one, it has an Intel® Celeron® processor; 15.6” display; 4GB memory; 500GB hard drive. It also has Bluetooth, which is almost a necessity these days, and HDMI output. I like the motherboard too. In my humble opinion, Intel makes the best processor you can buy right now.”
“Mother”¦”
“This one has a CD-ROM drive and wireless LAN capability.”
“Mother”¦” Bliss’ lips flapped unattractively.
“The keyboard and mouse are wireless.”
All the blood ran from her face and pooled somewhere around her feet. Her lungs clenched and dizziness swamped her. She stumbled sideways. Brad touched her arm but she shook him off. Reaching out, she touched the pretty, opal colored computer in front of her on the shelf. Desperation filled her as she looked up into his face. The black monster he’d been trying to sell her on looked so intimidating, so complex. And the terms he’d used to describe it”¦
Bliss shuddered.
The computer in front of her looked so pretty and harmless. In her terrified mind she rationalized that it was far less substantial than the black one, so maybe it wouldn’t blow up the first time she touched it. “This one is very pretty.”
Brad stared at her for a long moment, his sexy, green eyes appearing to see right inside her soul. Then his features softened and he nodded. “We can make this one work.” He turned to the salesman standing silently next to them. “We’ll take the pretty one.”
The two men shared a look but Bliss was too relieved to care. The dizziness slid away and her lungs filled with air again. “Caressing the pretty, shiny surface of the computer she was buying, she glanced sheepishly at Brad. “Thank you.”
His smile made blood pool in an entirely different place. “For what?”
“For terrifying me into latching onto one of these things. By the time you got done doing the supreme nerd routine, this white one looked so good I could eat it with catsup.”
Brad laughed. “Now you’ve made me hungry. You can take me to lunch to thank me for terrifying you. I want to make you a proposition.”
They headed toward the front of the store to pay for the computer. Bliss should have been worried about the purchase, but he’d succeeded in distracting her again. Her thighs tightened against a wave of anticipation. “Proposition?”
“Yeah.” He glanced at her and laughed. The sound rolled over her senses like flowing lava, making her hot and tingly in all the right places. “Don’t look so alarmed, my proposition is G-rated.”
“Dang!” She was grinning when he turned to her in surprise.
He chuckled. “But there’s at least one R-rated proposition tucked in behind it.”
“Ahhh. Good.” Bliss couldn’t believe she was flirting with him. Talk about playing with fire. She wasn’t at all sure she was ready to follow up the flirting with action if the opportunity arose.
As she handed her credit card to the clerk, Brad touched her back with a large, warm hand. The touch sent a jolt directly to her pussy, making it throb in time to her pounding heart. Under her t-shirt her nipples hardened expectantly. She sighed.
What the hell had she gotten herself into?
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