Case for Seduction (Kimani Romance) by Christopher Ann

Author:Christopher, Ann [Christopher, Ann]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin Enterprises
Published: 2012-09-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

About an hour later, after they’d both had a chance to decompress a little, Jake poked his head in her office. He was afraid he’d crossed a line somehow—afraid they weren’t cool anymore—and had to make sure that he hadn’t rattled her too much.

“Got a minute?” he asked.

“Absolutely.”

Her welcoming smile was the same as always, which should have been a relief. It wasn’t. Was she always so cool and collected? Was he making any sort of a dent in her self-protective shell? Why did sticking to his gentlemanly behavior feel like it was eating up years of his life?

“So did you get your reading done last night?”

She rolled her eyes. “Barely. Your little friend Harry—”

“Your son, Harry?”

“Yeah. He was a real pain in the rear last night. He did not want to go to bed. That’s becoming a real habit with him lately. And then he wanted to call his father and say good-night. Again. He likes speaking on the phone.”

“His father, eh?” Jake couldn’t stop his scowl, nor could he keep the sour note out of his voice.

“Umm.” She ducked her head, refusing to elaborate while he slumped into one of her visitor’s chairs. “What about you? Did you have a good night?”

He frowned, thinking of the pizza he’d ordered—his third in the last ten days or so—the mindless channel-surfing he’d done and the solitary sleeping he’d had in his big bed.

“The usual,” he said, trying to make the usual sound as though it was remotely interesting. “Oh, and I’ve been meaning to mention the barbecue at my house on Saturday. It’s a thing I have every year for the staff I work most closely with and their families.”

“Did you say barbecue? As in ribs?”

“Smoked ribs,” he added to sweeten the deal. “You haven’t lived until you’ve had my smoked ribs.”

“Strong words.”

“You’ll see. It’s a great time. Bring Harry and your mother. Like I said, it’s for families. Oh, and I have a pool, if anyone wants to swim.”

His mind flashed ahead a couple steps, to Charlotte in the kind of black string bikini that she probably didn’t even own, and he had to back away from the image before it scorched his eyebrows.

“We’ll be there.” She smiled like she was looking forward to it. “Thanks.”

She’d be there. An unreasonable wave of pleasure swelled inside him, suffusing the world with brighter colors, more sunshine and, for all he knew, rainbows and unicorns.

He was truly becoming an idiot where this woman was concerned.

Sad.

“Maybe we should talk about the day care,” Jake commented.

“Right.” She grabbed a legal pad and started jotting things on it. “So I think the most important issue with the day care will be the licensing. Which lawyer did you say is— Whoa, what’s all this?”

Something past his shoulder had caught her attention. Jake slung his arm over the back of the chair and twisted at the waist in time to see the receptionist stride in with a wide smile and a giant gold box of Godiva chocolates with a big red ribbon tied around it.

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