Ask Anyone by Sherryl Woods

Author:Sherryl Woods
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: MIRA
Published: 2002-06-06T16:00:00+00:00

Jenna almost laughed at the eagerness with which Daisy responded to her request to send Darcy by for a few hours.

“Stop it,” she ordered Bobby’s sister. “I know exactly what you’re thinking, and you can forget it. This is strictly business.”

“Are you meeting in his office?” Daisy asked, her tone filled with fake innocence.

“No,” Jenna admitted.

“Are food and drink involved?”

“Yes, but a lot of business is conducted over meals. I’ll bet even at the school, you and the other teachers confer over lunch.”

“Sure we do,” Daisy conceded. “Great raucous groups of us, trying to be heard over the noise in the cafeteria. We don’t have intimate little tête-à-têtes in a fancy restaurant.”

“How intimate can this be? The restaurant is packed.”

“If you’re half as smart as I think you are, it won’t be packed by the time you’re lingering over dessert.”

“No dessert,” Jenna insisted. “We’ve already had banana splits.”

“With all that gooey, sensuous hot fudge,” Daisy said in a deliberately suggestive tone. “I love it. You go, girl.”

Jenna frowned, then realized that Daisy couldn’t see her reaction over the phone. “Enough. If you keep this up, I’m keeping Darcy right here with me to run interference with a man you seem to be implying has lecherous intents.”

“Bobby? You’ve got to be kidding. He’s the ultimate gentleman. He won’t lay a finger on you unless you invite him to.”

“Which I have no intention of doing,” Jenna insisted, though now that the thought had been planted in her head, it seemed to be all she could think about. This was definitely not the kind of thinking a professional woman ought to be indulging in.

“I’ll drop Darcy off in ten minutes,” she said firmly. “If I hear one word about transforming tonight into some sort of seduction, I’ll turn right around and go back to the hotel.”

“Speaking of which, don’t you think you ought to consider renting someplace bigger, maybe even a little more permanent?” Daisy said, shifting gears.

Jenna wasn’t reassured one bit by the change of topic. It didn’t mean Daisy had given up on her matchmaking, only that she was exploring a new angle. This time it seemed to be about Jenna taking up permanent residence in Trinity Harbor.

“I don’t have the contract yet,” Jenna reminded her.

“You’ll get it. You might as well be ready.”

“Thanks for the vote of confidence. Maybe I will start looking around to see what’s available,” she said, realizing as soon as the words were out that it was an idea that appealed to her on a lot of levels. A home of her own at last. A place where she could raise Darcy without interference. Wouldn’t that be something? But that was something she’d have to think about in-depth later.

“I’d better get a move on,” she said then. “Ten minutes and no meddling, got it?”

Daisy laughed. “I’m afraid I inherited my father’s talent for matchmaking, but I’ll try my best to keep it in check. And, Jenna, just in case you haven’t gotten this part yet, I think it would be wonderful if something happened between you and my brother.

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