Along Came Trouble: A Loveswept Contemporary Romance by Ruthie Knox

Author:Ruthie Knox [Knox, Ruthie]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance, Contemporary, Fiction, Contemporary Women, General
ISBN: 9780345541611
Publisher: Loveswept
Published: 2013-03-11T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nineteen

Even with a baseball cap throwing his face into shadow, Jamie Callahan looked like his sister. They moved the same. Scanning the backyard through the window over the sink, Caleb had spotted him coming even before the new security light mounted over the back patio lit him up, but it wasn’t until Callahan came around the side porch, tripping a second light, that he had known for sure he was looking at Ellen’s brother rather than an intruder.

Though at the moment, even Ellen’s brother seemed like an intruder. Caleb was glad the guy was back for Carly’s sake, but his timing sucked, and his social skills left a little something to be desired.

“I’m Caleb Clark.” He offered his hand and took a perverse pleasure in realizing how short Jamie was. He had a solid build, but damn, he couldn’t be more than half an inch taller than his sister. Five-ten, maybe. With shoes on.

Callahan shook his hand firmly, but his eyes kept darting to Caleb’s bare chest as if he’d never seen one before. “You—you’re Ellen’s—”

“Boyfriend.” He was grateful Ellen wasn’t in the room to object. He was trying to be her boyfriend, and tonight he’d been getting somewhere. Even if she wasn’t ready to talk about Richard, she’d answered his other questions. When he’d left her bedroom, he’ had her exactly how he wanted her—naked, happy, and pink-cheeked from her latest orgasm.

Glowering as if he could read Caleb’s mind, Callahan asked, “Is Ellen home?”

“She’s in her room. I’m sure she’ll be out in a few minutes.”

Caleb couldn’t blame him for looking pissed off. If Caleb had walked in on a half-dressed stranger in Katie’s kitchen, he wouldn’t be too happy either. Of course, Katie’s kitchen was his kitchen, which changed the equation. But Ellen kept the spare room for her brother. Maybe it wasn’t all that different.

What would Caleb want to hear if he were in Callahan’s position?

I’m not sleeping with your sister.

Well, he wasn’t going to lie to the man.

Instead, he said, “Aren’t you supposed to be in Houston right now?”

“Change of plans.”

“You were supposed to notify Breckenridge if you planned to return to town.”

“I decided to keep a low profile. If the vultures knew I was coming here, they’d be all over this place, but since I managed to sneak in through the back, no one knows where I am.”

“You filed a flight plan, though,” Caleb said, thinking, Bad. Really bad. Jamie must have canceled a big arena show at the last minute, dodged the press, and flown incognito to Ohio. He’d just made himself three hundred times more interesting. And Caleb’s job three hundred times harder.

“Yeah, they’ll find me eventually. I thought I’d give the yokels a chance to beef up security on Carly and Ellen before they do.”

“You could’ve given the yokels a chance to do that before you got here. Now they’ll have to scramble. And anyway, it’s reckless for you to go around unprotected.”

Jamie bristled. “Who are you to call me reckless?”

“I’m the yokels,” Caleb said evenly.

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