A Bit of Sass by Sarah McCarty

Author:Sarah McCarty
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Tags: Romance, Erotic
ISBN: 141990454X
Publisher: Ellora's Cave Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2005-12-31T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Five

“What do you think you’re doing?”

Jacob cocked an eyebrow at her as he reached into the back of the Jeep, looking too damn sexy, too damn heartbreakingly familiar for her peace of mind. She squared her shoulders.

“Well?” she asked when he failed to answer.

He shoved a shovel into her hands and grabbed a box marked with pictures of Santa in a sleigh. That infuriating eyebrow rose higher. “I assumed it was obvious. I’m getting ready to do some decorating. And later, some landscaping.”

She tightened her grip on the shovel. “You live in Vermont, McConnally.”

“Not at the moment.” He slung the box up onto his shoulder with the same ease with which he had imparted that devastating tidbit. Sass could feel her composure unravel right along with her temper as he headed off. How could he do this to her?

She followed him to the side yard. No way was he just walking away from this discussion. He stopped dead in his tracks and smiled. She followed the trajectory of his gaze and groaned.

“I assume that’s your daughter in the window doing the Garfield impression?”

Corrine was standing on the back of the couch which was even with the window sill, her feet spread for balance, her hands rested high above her head on the window, and her nose was pressed against the glass between the paper cut-out snowflakes adorning the window. She did resemble the Garfield doll that people stuck in the back windows of their cars. Sass quickly motioned Corrine down with a sharp movement of her hand and sighed when the gesture elicited no response from her daughter beyond a wave. “Yes. That’s my soon-to-be-in-her-room youngest child.”

Jacob waved back at Corrine and turned to Sass. “You do know that a child’s room is not the best place to establish as a time-out location?”

She stared at him. “Did you just say what I think you said?”

He nodded and repeated—verbatim no less—the information. So, she wasn’t losing her mind. Jacob had, for whatever reason, absorbed some of the current speculation on child-rearing. And speculation it was, at least when applied to Corrine. “What’d you do, catch last weeks episode of Oprah?”

He didn’t laugh as she had anticipated. Instead, his expression remained deadpan. “No. I missed that one. I had to run and do a signing.”

Was that regret she heard in his voice?

“I’ve got it on tape, though.”

She didn’t want him studying up on child psychology, looking at her children with the intent to love. She didn’t want him here raising hopes that had no point in existing, refreshing her grief, renewing her pain. She threw the shovel onto the pile, barely missing his toe. “What are you doing here in New Jersey, renting a house next door to mine?”

“Proving a point.” He turned and headed back to the car. Two pulls and several grunts later, he had a couple bags of lime in his hands. Sass held her ground as he strolled back, conscious of her children’s eyes upon her. They were effectively tying her hands.

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