Beware the Ranger by Debra Holt

Author:Debra Holt [Holt, Debra]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Tule Publishing
Published: 2017-06-26T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

“You look like hell,” Angie said with the truthfulness only a best friend could get away with.

Coming into Kaitlyn’s room the next morning, she brought a glass of orange juice to her sleep-tousled friend. Kaitlyn was still in the middle of her bed, the covers looked as though she had fought them all night and lost the battle.

“Thanks a bunch, Miss Sunshine.” Kaitlyn managed, taking the offered glass.

Angie plopped on the bed beside her. “So I take it by the looks of those circles under your eyes that things did not go as one might have hoped when I left you and Mr. Tall, Dark, and Handsome, alone last night? What did you do or say this time?”

Kaitlyn watched Angie over the edge of her glass as she took another sip, counting slowly in her brain to keep from saying the wrong thing.

“I think I warned you about letting your imagination run wild. Stop reading those romance novels.” Kaitlyn set the glass on the bedside table as she sat straighter on the bed.

“I read those romance novels because there are few opportunities for real romance in my everyday life. I live vicariously through characters on a page of paper. Which I wouldn’t have to do if you would, as my dearest friend, just find Mr. Right and start to live happily ever after.”

“First of all, I am not a science experiment or lab rat in some romance scenario running rampant in that brain of yours. Second, why don’t you take your head out of your sketchpad long enough and find your own Mr. Right and let the rest of us have some peace?”

Angie studied the question for a second or two before making her reply with a shake of her head. “No… nope, I much rather think I am more suited to play the part of the fairy godmother in Cinderella… with a really killer dress of course… which I would design. And then be a smashing Auntie Angie to a darling little one that I could spoil and then send back home to you.”

“You know, your mind is a scary place at times.”

“Thank you… now get a move on.” Angie gave her a playful kick of her bare foot as she rose from her seat. “Edie has a great breakfast almost ready to eat and Clay’s taking us to the hospital in a couple of hours.”

Clay was taking them to the hospital? That thought darkened the daylight for a moment. She still hadn’t worked it all out in her mind as to how things had gone the evening before. The kiss. Why had he done it? Did she wish he hadn’t? Why did she respond so automatically with all those feelings she had buried? Because she hadn’t really buried them? She had just fooled herself? Maybe the past wasn’t done with yet? So many questions and so very few answers had come to her. Somewhere around dawn, she had made a flimsy cease-fire with her brain and her feelings.

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