Chesapeake 10 - A Seaside Christmas by Woods Sherryl

Author:Woods, Sherryl [Woods, Sherryl]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Retail
ISBN: 9781460319505
Publisher: MIRA
Published: 2013-09-24T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

“How’d the work go this afternoon?” Caleb asked Jenny as they finished up their pizza in front of the fire. He’d picked the topic mostly to distract himself from the way the firelight played over her skin and danced in her eyes. He was starting to want her way too much.

“It would have gone better if you’d been around to run the lyrics with me,” she told him, as if he were the one who’d run off and cut the session short.

He smiled but didn’t call her on it. “Since when do you really want my input at this stage? You mostly grumble that I’m messing with your creative process.”

“Okay, that’s true,” she conceded. “But I couldn’t seem to get focused. I really should have insisted you come back after lunch. After all, this show’s success depends as much on you as it does on me.”

He had a hunch her irritation had nothing to do with him or his failure to return to the theater earlier. “What’s this attitude really about, Jenny? Didn’t lunch with the ex go the way you wanted it to?”

“Lunch with Dillon was just fine,” she said a little too quickly.

“But he was unhappy to discover I was hanging around, wasn’t he?” he asked, taking a certain amount of masculine pleasure in that. How could he not? Dillon’s mere existence made him crazy. Why shouldn’t he return the favor?

“It’s not up to him to approve or disapprove,” Jenny responded.

“That doesn’t mean he’s happy about it,” Caleb told her. “Can’t say that I blame him. I’m not overjoyed about bumping into him at the theater all the time, either.” When she would have snapped back a retort, he held up a hand. “Not that I have any right to complain.”

“No, you don’t. And how many times have you actually bumped into him there, anyway? He’s only been by twice, and the first time...” Her voice trailed off and her eyes widened. “You were there that day, too?”

“I was.”

“And what? You stood outside the door and eavesdropped on a private conversation?”

“I overheard enough to figure out who he was, then I left,” he replied.

“How discreet of you.”

He smiled at her annoyance. “I thought so.” He hesitated, then asked, “How did the two of you leave things? Again, not that it’s any of my business.”

“It’s not your business,” she agreed, “but if you must know, I told him that nothing’s going to happen between us again, that I think of him as a friend.” She leveled a determined look into his eyes. “I’m not interested in a relationship with anyone at the moment. I’ve had enough drama to last a lifetime.”

Caleb shuddered at the firm declaration, empathizing with Dillon for being blown off so emphatically. “That must have stung,” he said, as if he didn’t know perfectly well that she’d intended the same message for him.

“I also told him nothing was going to happen with you again, either,” she said, intent on clarifying the point he’d deliberately ignored.

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