Girl Next Door by Kate Welsh

Author:Kate Welsh
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2001-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

Jeff pushed his way toward the door to the hall feeling like a man on his way to his own execution. He stopped and glanced at his watch. Six twenty-five. At least he was right on time. Hope thought she was going to teach him something about human nature tonight, but it was Hope who was in for the lesson. Unfortunately, it would mean his own humiliation.

Muscles knotting and dinner lying like a rock in his nervous stomach, Jeff forced himself to roll forward. Hope and Curt stood in the foyer. “Coming to help or watch?” he asked Madden.

Curt stepped forward. “Jeff, if you don’t want to go—”

“No, I don’t want to go, but I let her push me and I lost. If I was stupid enough to fall into her trap, then I guess I ought to be man enough to pay the piper.”

“Jeff—” Hope began.

“I don’t want or need your backpedaling,” he cut in. “Let’s get this over with. I assume the answer to my earlier question was help,” he told Madden. “So how do we go about getting the invalid into the car?”

“It’s a van and it’s equipped with a chairlift,” Hope told him.

“Think of everything, don’t you?” he grumbled.

It took a little longer than he liked, but Jeff soon found himself ensconced inside the van. Curt climbed behind the wheel and Hope climbed in next to him.

“So, where are we going?” Jeff asked.

“The Tabernacle.”

Incredulous, he stared at her for a long moment. Jeff could have sworn he felt his blood pressure skyrocket. She wouldn’t! “I am not going to your church. You know how I feel about that!”

“You said anything. If you had won, what were you going to ask me to do?”

He felt like a volcano overdue to blow. She was too much! “I was going to make you go home,” he snapped.

“And I want you to go out. No one at the Tabernacle will stare or point or ask embarrassing questions. I know these people. They’re good and decent and kind. This will be the perfect place for you to start getting out into the world again. I’m not demanding you listen to Pastor Dillon. Sit and twiddle your thumbs. I don’t care.”

“Take me home,” he demanded.

“You promised! What are you afraid of?”

Jeff gritted his teeth. Why did she always make him feel like a coward? “I’m not afraid! Fine. I’ll go to your stupid church.”

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