Fair Game by Elizabeth White

Author:Elizabeth White
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Array
Publisher: Zondervan

chapter 14

There was something personal about having Jana as a guest on his boat. Especially without the children. Knowing the stuffed bobcat and fox and the deer head offended her, Grant had taken them down a few days ago and moved them to one of the cabins in the woods. Now the wall beside the TV looked blank, but it was a small price to pay for having her here.

Instead of entering the cabin, though, she found a deck chair and dragged it into the shade while he went inside for coffee. Smiling her thanks, she took the mug from him and sipped. “Good stuff.” She scanned the pier. “Where are your sidekicks?”

“In the woods. Getting the — uh — thing ready.”

“Grant, you’re starting to scare me.” Her nose wrinkled in that sassy way that had attracted him way back in the days when he had no business being attracted.

As if the attraction was any safer now.

He swallowed irrational fear. Granny’s lecture two weeks ago, laden as it was with her typical scrambled metaphors, had given him a lot to think about. Fish or cut bait.

Maybe — just maybe — he was ready to throw out a line.

He leaned back against the deck rail instead of taking the other chair. A little distance seemed prudent. “Finish your coffee. They’ll whistle when they’re ready for us.” Taking a hasty swig from his Hunters for the Hungry mug, he burned the roof of his mouth. “Shoot — I mean, how are the kiddos liking their new school?”

His watering eyes seemed to amuse Jana. “So far, so good. It’s only their second day, but LeeLee already has the class organized into rotating play groups. And Ty’s found a couple of potential best buds.”

“That’s good. School can be a jungle for new kids — at least so I hear. Me, I was stuck in Vancleave from the ground up.” He paused. Jana had been too. Maybe this wasn’t such a great conversational topic. But doggone it, sooner or later they had to shovel out the past.

She gave him a thoughtful look. “It’s not always being new that’s the problem. You never had anything to prove, did you?”

“Guess not.” Dad being a doctor, and the parental units having maintained something of a Ward and June Cleaver marriage, there’d always been plenty of money and moral support to go around. Family and church formed a bedrock of moral foundation that gave him a launching pad for a fairly stable adulthood. “Is that what sent you off on the skids, Jana? Why would you care what juvenile idiots like me thought?”

“I don’t know. I just did.” She sat looking down, elbows braced on the knees of her jeans, the bright blue of her cotton shirt setting up a stark contrast to her olive-toned skin. The breeze ruffled her wavy hair, lifting it away from her face to reveal pinkened cheeks. “I had such a crush on you . . .”

He stared at her. “No way.”

Dark jewel eyes cut his way.

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