35 Beyond The Limit by Lindsay McKenna

Author:Lindsay McKenna [McKenna, Lindsay]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HQN
Published: 2006-11-15T00:00:00+00:00

“MR. PARKER, WHAT DID you think you were doing, holding Ms. Roland’s hand like that earlier?” Pete stared hard at Brad Parker. The structural engineer had just gone over his notes with him, and their meeting was over. It took everything Pete had to keep his voice low and unruffled. He felt nothing like he sounded. Inside, he was furious. And as he appraised the shock in Parker’s darkly suntanned features, he waited for an answer. An answer he practically wanted to shake out of him.

“Why…I was just reaching down to grab Ms. Roland’s glove. The wind blew them off the rebar.”

“Really? That’s not how it appeared to me from where I stood.”

Parker shrugged easily. He picked up his reports and clipped them back on the board resting on the table. “I was just trying to be a gentleman, Major Trayhern.”

He was lying and Pete knew it. Yet the innocent look on Parker’s face would fool a lot of people. Maybe because he yearned for Cali, but could never have her, Pete saw Parker as a huge threat. Maybe he was just jealous. Okay, he damn well admitted it, but only to himself. “Next time, Parker, keep your hands to yourself. It looked like you deliberately reached out to catch her hand as she bent down to pick up her gloves.”

Parker chuckled. “Hey, she’d been wanting her hand held all day, Major. I was just complying.”

Rage funneled up through Pete. “Complying? As if she was wanting you to do something stupid like that?” He ached to curl his hand into a fist and put it right through Parker’s smiling features. The guy was brazen, bold and arrogant.

Parker picked up his hard hat and placed it back on his head. “Major, with all due respect, I don’t have to go out and chase women down. They come to me.” His mouth curved faintly.

“Let me be very clear,” Pete said, his voice deep, “I don’t ever want to see you out on my site touching Ms. Roland in any way at any time. I don’t care what the reason is. You got that?”

“Not a problem, Major. I can’t help it if she was flirting with me all day long. But I’ll refrain and make sure it doesn’t happen again. Are we done? I’ve got some reports to type into the computer.”

“We’re done.” Pete held on to his rage. He watched the man stroll out of his office as if he didn’t have a care in the world. Rubbing his jaw, Pete wondered if it was true. Did Cali ask for his attention like that? Every cell in his body exploded with a screaming no. Cali had never flirted with anyone at this site. Not ever. Not even with him.

Sitting down on a wooden stool, Pete tried to focus on a set of blueprints. The sounds of earthmoving equipment provided a backdrop of noise as he unrolled the scrolls outward and flattened them. Try as he might to focus on his work, thoughts of Cali assailed him.

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