Bachelor at Her Bidding by Hardy Kate

Author:Hardy, Kate [Hardy, Kate]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance
ISBN: 9781942240402
Publisher: Tule Publishing Group
Published: 2015-02-26T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

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“I’m so sorry that I didn’t manage to pick up your prescription,” Rachel said when her neighbor answered her door. “I did get the bread you asked for, but…” Not the prescription. She could hardly walk back into the pharmacy on Main Street and get it after Ryan had kissed her stupid and harangued Carol Bingley like that.

“That’s all right, love. It’s a few days until I run out of my pills anyway. It was kind of you to offer to fetch them for me in the first place. I know you’re busy.” Mrs. Jacobs smiled at Rachel.

“I’ll get them tomorrow, I promise,” Rachel said. And hopefully Carol Bingley wouldn’t have any new venom in store tomorrow. Though, even if she did, Rachel was feeling pretty immune to it after the way Ryan had stood up for her.

By the time Rachel let herself into her own apartment, her phone was ringing and it looked as if there were several messages already on the answer machine.

She picked up the phone, recognizing her best friend’s number.

“Hey, Rach. I hear the windows got pretty steamed up in the pharmacy this afternoon,” Lizzy said.

Rachel had known that the gossip would spread, but she’d had no idea that it would happen this fast. No doubt the rest of the answer machine messages were all on the same subject, then. She rolled her eyes. “It wasn’t quite like that, Lizzy.”

“No? Ryan Henderson bent you back over his arm and kissed you in the middle of the pharmacy. Is that steamy, or is that steamy?”

“It was just for show,” Rachel explained. “Carol Bingley made one of her bitchy comments, and Ry overheard her.”

“A bitchy comment about you?” Lizzie’s voice sharpened from teasing to anger. “Oh, for pity’s sake. Who does that woman think she is?”

“If you heard about the kiss, then you probably heard about the rest of it,” Rachel pointed out.

“Something about Ryan telling her to think before she opened her mouth in future,” Lizzy agreed. “I wish I’d been there to hear it.”

“I think most of Marietta will have heard about it by now,” Rachel said wryly.

“If it makes that woman mind her manners in future, then that’s a good thing.” Lizzy said. “Are you okay? What did she actually say?”

“I’m fine, and it doesn’t really matter what she said.” It had hurt at the time, ripping off the top layer of the scars that Nick had left, but Ryan’s actions had taken away much of the sting. “It’s over now.”

“If it made Ryan kiss you in front of the whole town, it must have been something personal – and, knowing her, mean-spirited.”

“It was a typical Carol Bingley comment, but I’m not going to make this into a witch hunt. It’s forgotten.”

“You’re a better woman than I am. I’d want her groveling on the steps of the Town Hall in front of everyone,” Lizzy said. “So if that kiss was just for show, does this mean you’re not seeing Ryan, after all?”

Not exactly, but Rachel wasn’t going to admit to their agreement.

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