A Firefighter in Her Stocking by Janice Lynn

Author:Janice Lynn [Lynn, Janice]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarlequinUKLtd
Published: 2017-09-12T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

JUDE MIGHT BE in over his head.

Way over his head.

He’d never told anyone, not even Nina, about how he’d felt about his family, about why he’d become a firefighter. Why had he opened up to Sarah?

He’d not even thought about it, just answered when she’d asked, as if what he was saying was no big deal.

What was it about Sarah that made telling her things easy? As if spilling his guts to her was the most natural thing in the world?

That she hadn’t judged him, hadn’t found him lacking for not embracing what it meant to be a Davenport, surprised him. He was used to women who were with him as much due to the Davenport name as they were for him.

Not that there weren’t advantages to being born wealthy and a part of the Davenport clan.

For instance, Sarah’s surprise.

Penny, his daredevil cousin, had been over the moon at his request. Then again, she’d have likely agreed just to meet Sarah.

He’d made the mistake of mentioning a name, of mentioning how much Sarah loved the city, of how he wanted to show New York to her in a way she’d never seen it.

What better way than from Penny’s helicopter?

Or so he’d thought until that moment.

Sarah’s face had gone a ghastly pale shade at the sight of the helicopter.

“We’re going somewhere in that?” she asked, her voice strained.

“You’re not afraid of flying, are you?” He’d not considered that possibility, but knew there were lots of people who didn’t fly.

“No.” Her tone didn’t sound confident. “At least, I don’t think I am. I don’t know.” She gave him a trembling smile and shrugged. “I’ve never been in a helicopter.”

Protectiveness swept over him. An odd protectiveness that felt different from any he’d ever experienced until she’d been telling him about her failed date. Just as then, he wanted to take on her fear, her doubt, and give her the world.

He gave her hand a reassuring squeeze.

“You’ll like this,” he assured her, hoping he was correct. “Penny is a great pilot. You’ll like her.”

Still eyeing the helicopter, she asked, “Penny?”

“My cousin Penny,” he clarified. “She said she knew you. Among other things, she’s a paramedic with Manhattan Mercy’s air ambulance.”

“Penny Davenport. Your cousin. Charles’s younger sister. Of course.” She glanced at him and a new uncertainty crept into her eyes. “You get along with her, then?”

He nodded. “She’s crazy, like me.”

“You don’t care if she knows you’re with me?”

Not what he’d been expecting Sarah to ask, neither did he understand why she had.

He frowned. “Why would I care if she knows?”

Insecurity shone behind her glasses. “I... I just wondered. I wasn’t sure how much your family knew about your women.”

Maybe because he was concerned he’d miscalculated on the helicopter trip or maybe in retaliation for the vulnerability he felt at the intense protectiveness she evoked in him, Sarah’s comment made him angry. Enough was enough.

“You’re not one of my women, Sarah.”

She wasn’t. She was...hurt by his outburst.

He could see it in

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