Are you ready?” Jedd’s jaw dropped at the vision hovering in the open doorway of his apartment. Holy snapping demons! He’d expected Mina to turn up in one of those god-awful spinsterish suits she seemed to favor. Instead, she— Ah hell, he couldn’t even get his head around it. He’d fancied her before in her business suits, but this just blew his mind. She wore a figure-hugging, black sheath dress with thin shoulder straps and a hemline that ended mid-thigh. The dress glittered and it took him a moment to realize it was covered in shiny black square sequins, each one overlapping the previous so it almost looked like armor plating. As they reached the hip line the layers thinned out so by the time they hit the hem, there was only a few scattered here and there. Her fiery red hair swung loose about her shoulders, giving a glimpse as she moved her head of the deep red stones in her earlobes. Makeup enhanced her eyes and the scarlet lipstick outlining her mouth made him drool. He’d always had a thing for pouty red lips.
