Back to Luke by Kathryn Shay

Author:Kathryn Shay [Shay, Kathryn]
Format: epub
Tags: American Light Romantic Fiction, Romance: Modern, Contemporary, General, Romance, Romance - Contemporary, Fiction, Fiction - Romance, Man-woman relationships, Love stories, Suspense, Forgiveness
ISBN: 9780373715794
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2009-08-11T03:23:31.718000+00:00

THE SUN BEAT DOWN on Jayne’s head as she perched on the roof and anchored her feet on the section that was secure. Several pairs of workers were hammering plywood into place. A few feet away, Luke was nailing down a big board of it, and she worried about the precarious nature of his position. Hell, she’d been obsessed with him all week.

Come with me, he’d barked just an hour ago. We don’t have enough volunteers and I need somebody to feed me nails.

She would have balked, but they were short of help, and he’d been so mean all week she didn’t want to cross him. Oh, all right, she admitted as she stared over at him, his head bent, the brim of his Yankees cap pulled down. She wanted to be with him. He looked like a million bucks up here, shirtless, wearing a tool belt. And every time she handed him nails and their hands brushed, the electricity between them sizzled. She was afraid that, now that he’d touched her again, she wouldn’t be able to forget what they had been like together.

They worked for an hour with the hot rays bouncing off the brown shingles mercilessly. She’d sweated through her Harmony Housing T-shirt, and the jeans she wore were sticking to her, never mind her feet swelling inside her work boots. She also felt a headache coming on and wished she’d brought medicine with her to the site.

When Luke deigned to look at her, he swore. “Don’t you have enough sense to use sunscreen? Your nose is burning.”

“I didn’t know I’d be exposed this long.”

“Go on down and put some on.”

She glanced at her watch. “It’s almost lunchtime. Let’s finish this section and then stop for a while.”

Something hit her in the chest.

“What?” She saw Luke’s ball cap had landed on her. “I don’t want to wear your hat.”

“You didn’t seem to mind wearing one of mine on Sunday.” She could practically see anger bubbling inside him as she tossed the hat back and he jerked it on. “And no matter what you say, you didn’t mind a lot of things that morning.”

“Shut up.”

“Excuse me?”

“I said shut up. I don’t want to talk about this.”

He swore under his breath and, with the force of an anvil hitting steel, hammered another nail. When she went to give him more, he grabbed her fingers. Nails fell, pinging on the wood, and slid off the roof. “Don’t tell me you don’t remember what it was like to have my hands on you again.” He nodded to her breasts. “All over you. You wanted it, babe.”

“I never said I didn’t want it.”

“Oh, wait, I forgot. You said you didn’t believe it was real. How in the holy hell could you think I faked that response to you? Especially after what we shared in New York?”

“You said it was because I didn’t have any confidence in myself as a woman.” Her tone came off hurt instead of nasty, like she meant it.

He stopped nailing and sat back on his haunches.

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