A Fortune Wedding by Kristin Hardy

Author:Kristin Hardy [Hardy, Kristin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

The glossy blue bulk of Roberto’s truck blocked Frannie’s driveway, forcing her to stop partway up the concrete apron. She got out to the sharp reports of hammer blows. Roberto was at work on the garage, she saw, craning her neck to glimpse the top of his head over the truck. She headed toward the front of the truck to find him.

And stopped in her tracks.

Roberto wore jeans and a plain T-shirt, his tanned skin dark against the white cotton. A leather tool belt was slung about his hips, making them look very narrow. A nail dangled from his lips like a cigarette. As she watched, he picked it out and positioned it against the board with one hand. With the other, he brought the hammer around in a sweeping arc and with a single blow drove the nail all the way into the wood.

Her lips parted.

He shifted and slammed in nail after nail, smoothly, rhythmically and with deceptive speed. There was an assurance, an insouciant grace in his every motion. Muscle flexed in his back, rippled in his forearms. She’d never seen a man who inhabited his body so completely. It made her think of some lithe, powerful animal like a jungle cat. She stared, transfixed.

He’d finished and was turning to pick up his tools when he saw her.

Time went by—seconds? Minutes?—she couldn’t say because for just that time they didn’t speak, didn’t move, only locked eyes with each other. And then he was walking toward her, slipping his hammer into the tool belt without a glance. His eyes looked black, even in the sun. Her lungs snatched a breath of their own accord.

“You cut your hair.”

She swallowed. “It was getting in my way.”

“I like it.”

There was something in his voice, some vibration that set up an answering thrum deep within her.

Straight toward the hazard signs.

You shouldn’t even be talking to him.

The breeze caught up the strands of her hair and tossed them around. In his eyes, there was desire, but also something far more seductive—delight. “I remember the first time I saw you,” he said softly, reaching out to brush her bangs off her forehead. “You’d just gotten out of the car. You were wearing this little white skirt and a pale green shirt with no sleeves. You reminded me of one of those pixies in the Disney movies.”

It took her a moment to find her voice. “I didn’t think you noticed me.”

“I noticed you. Maybe you wouldn’t say boo to a goose when you got there, but even then you had this look like you were fixing to make some kind of trouble.”

“What trouble did I ever cause?”

“Besides distracting me every minute of every day?”

“You can’t blame me for that,” she said, moistening her lips.

“What about the fact that I haven’t gotten a decent night’s sleep since I hit town?”

He was too close, she thought, close enough that she could feel the heat radiating off of him.

“Show me what you’re working on,” she said with effort.

He studied her.

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