Deuces Wild by Lori Foster

Author:Lori Foster
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2020-04-20T16:00:00+00:00

Four

Lisa no sooner walked away than Hart slouched back down in his seat.

Dex gave him a pitying look. “You should have walked her out.”

“So she could snub me some more?”

Joe laughed. “She’s not what I expected.”

Immediately on the defensive, Hart turned to him. “She’s gorgeous when she lets herself be.”

“That’s plain.” Joe smirked. “I’m not blind or anything.”

Dex laughed. “Remember, brother, Joe sees through feminine disguises.”

“Wasn’t much of a disguise, if you ask me,” Joe said. “In fact, I always took more sedate clothes as a dare, if you get my drift.”

“I get it,” Hart snarled, knowing Joe had eyes only for his wife, but still pinched with jealousy.

When Joe only laughed again, egged on by Dex, Hart said, “So what was unexpected?”

Dex spoke before Joe could. “She’s a hell of a lot more engaging than most of the women you seek out.”

“Yeah.” He had to agree with that. She certainly engaged him—on many levels.

“Funnier, too, with that prickly wit of hers,” Joe said. “She put you in your place.”

“Yeah.” And Hart had to admit he liked where she put him. He glanced toward the exit.

“You could probably still catch her,” Joe told him, “and apologize properly for being such a dumb ass.”

“I don’t know . . .” She’d made it clear how she felt about him.

“She knew I wasn’t you,” Dex announced. “Right off. No hesitation. Didn’t you tell me that was a rarity?”

“It’s unheard-of.” Hart stewed for three seconds more, then bolted from the table to go after Lisa.

Joe sighed. “I guess this means I’m picking up the tab?”

Hart didn’t slow down. His brother and his cousin could both afford lunch, and besides, he hadn’t even eaten.

He spotted Lisa unlocking her car across the street. “Lisa!” He jogged toward her.

She looked up, shielded her eyes with a hand, and waited.

Hart had to smile at the picture she presented. Joe had nailed it—she was a challenge, and that damn tie at her throat only made him want to untie it.

“What is it?” she asked.

“A lot of things.” Not touching her was impossible, so he brushed the backs of his fingers over her cheek. “I’m sorry.”

Behind her glasses, her nose scrunched. “For?”

“The crack about your clothes.”

“Oh.” And then, “That was remarkably rude.”

“And for being a jealous jerk.”

Her eyelashes fluttered. “What?”

Damn, he couldn’t take it. He cupped both hands around her neck. “I saw you ogling Joe.”

She stiffened. “I don’t know what you’re talking about.”

“Baloney. He made you all tongue-tied, when I’ve never seen you get that way. You’re usually the most self-confident woman I know.”

“I am?”

“Hell, even from the back of the restaurant I could see you blushing.”

Confusion darkened her soft brown eyes, and her tongue slipped out to dampen her bottom lip. “I was somewhat affected by him.”

He locked his jaw.

“I assume that you’ll probably look like him one day. That’s what affected me, thinking of you a few years down the road.”

“Do you? Think of me?”

Her eyes narrowed, and she refused to answer. “There are strong family resemblances between you.

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