Free Falling by Debra Webb

Author:Debra Webb [Webb, Debra]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance, opposites attract, sassy
Publisher: Debra Webb
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

Mac crammed his hard hat on his head and drew in a deep, resolute breath. This was the right thing to do. Spending the day with Free was not. Was not, he repeated.

He had beaten himself up all night over his moment of weakness. He could not, would not go down that road. Jake was wrong; Mac didn’t need to have her. She made him feel too much.

She made him want too much.

Mostly she confused him.

Mac slipped his cell phone into his shirt pocket, then grabbed his rolled-up blueprints and headed for the door. He did not want to want the things Free Renzetti made him want.

No. No. Absolutely not.

He could call her later in the morning and tell her that something had come up. It wasn’t that big a deal anyway. After all, it wasn’t even technically a date.

Date. Mac grimaced.

He had to get out of here. He opened the door and pushed out into the bright morning sun. The only reminders of last nights’ rain showers were a small puddle on the sidewalk and a thousand glittering droplets on the leaves and grass. Had her dancing in the dark, in the rain, been a dream? Free had glided around the yard as if on air. The rain had plastered the thin white dress to her body. No, it had been real.

Too damn real.

He didn’t need that kind of distraction.

Mac clenched his jaw. The business was all he needed. It was all he had ever needed. He had learned at a very young age to focus on one goal and one goal only, survival. Work equaled survival in his book. He had to work. Work defined him.

An engine cranked and then sputtered to life. Mac looked up just in time to see Free turning her truck around and heading in his direction. He muttered two oaths and then clenched his jaw. Why couldn’t he have gotten on the road before she came out?

“Good morning,” she said, all smiles.

“Morning,” he managed.

Free bounded out of the truck, her long blue skirt flowing to cover everything to mid-calf. A shiny silver bracelet encompassed one delicate ankle. And barefoot! Did the woman ever wear shoes? He suddenly pictured her barefoot and round with child. He jerked, wide-eyed and shaken to the core. Damn. This woman made him think about things he didn’t want to think about.

“Perfect,” she said after examining him from head to toe. “But” she reached up and snatched off his protective headgear “the hardhat is overkill.”

Before he could protest, she had seized the blueprints from his hand and confiscated the cell phone from his pocket, then added, “You won’t need these either.” She left him, mouth gaping, and returned the necessities of his life to his back door.

“Let’s go,” she enthused as she swept around the corner of the house.

Mac found his voice. “Wait a minute. I can’t go,” he said tersely, steeling himself for her protests.

She smiled, Mac’s stomach clenched. “Don’t be silly. Of course you can go.” She looked up at him with those gorgeous baby blues.

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