Harlequin Special Edition August 2017--Box Set 2 of 2 by Meg Maxwell

Author:Meg Maxwell
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781488029431
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2017-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TEN

Emily could have listened to Graham brainstorm her future forever. He made it sound so normal, like she wasn’t asking for a crazy dream at all.

“It boils down to pretty simple needs, a job and a place to live. What you don’t need is to defer your life another semester.”

I love you, I love you.

But she restrained herself and said, “Exactly, and I better find that job first thing tomorrow, or else.” The image of her parents, furious at her sister, had been burned in her mind years ago. “Just…or else.”

Graham looked at her intently again. She felt that sense of alertness about him, that sense that he was ready to handle danger. It had an undeniably sexy edge to it, but now that it had returned, she realized how much more relaxed he’d gotten as the night went on, here by the pond. He smiles when he kisses me.

He wasn’t smiling now. “Your parents will kick you out? Immediately?”

“They don’t believe in empty threats. I was in high school when they packed up all my sister’s clothes in boxes and left them in a neat stack on the front porch for her.”

“Which college didn’t she want to go to?”

Emily kind of liked his sarcasm. “She was in the appropriate college, actually, but she got pregnant.”

Graham was perfectly still for a moment. Then very deliberately, he pushed the comforter off himself and turned so he sat on the edge of the vehicle. He was tall, so his feet were on the ground as he glared at her lake. “That’s a hell of a time to tell your kid she’s got to find her own place to live. This is who you’re dealing with?”

“They were willing to help her, but they demanded that she name the father. She refused. It was an ultimatum, tell us or else. They didn’t see why the boy shouldn’t have to help, or why he shouldn’t face any consequences. They wanted the boy to take responsibility.”

Graham’s profile had that marble-statue hard look again. “I can agree with that much, but punishing the girl when she needs support is complete bull. That’s not the time to throw out your own damn daughter, for fu—for God’s sake.”

Tarzan would be a fiercely protective father some day. It wasn’t something Emily had looked for in a man before, but it was so easy at this moment to look at Graham’s profile and imagine him twenty years from now. He’d be very little changed, physically. He was already a man with no trace of boyishness left. Twenty years from now, he might have some gray in his hair or some crinkles at the corners of his eyes. He’d be just as handsome, just as protective, and if he had a nineteen-year-old daughter who needed him, there’d be no conditions set first, no criteria that would entitle her to his best effort.

This night was changing her life. Graham was setting the bar so high. No wonder the plans she’d made for her future had never included a permanent relationship.

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