Her Holiday Secret by Jennifer Greene

Author:Jennifer Greene
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2011-06-06T16:00:00+00:00

Eight

Hold that thought indeed.

Maggie scowled at the computer monitor. She wasn’t considering seducing Andy. Right now she wasn’t even thinking about him—which she’d told herself at least a dozen times.

Shutters blocked out a blustery winter afternoon. Her fingers clicked on the computer keys somewhere between 110 and 120 miles an hour. Her answering machine was on. A sign at her back door threatened dire consequences to anyone who interrupted her. She was barefoot and wearing old white sweats with a hole in the fanny—her dead-serious working clothes. A cranberry candle was lit next to her, wafting its scent through her office.

A deadline was looming. Four days from now she needed to trek into Mytron in Boulder with a finished manual in hand. She’d always worked best with a panther nipping at her heels, and she knew her engineering guys like brothers. The boys were all brilliant—but they couldn’t communicate worth bologna in the English language. Their technical manuals used to require a translator for a customer to comprehend their mumbo-jumbo technobabble... not to mention their dangling participles.

They needed her—which she’d certainly clearly told them. She was worth her weight in gold—which she’d also told them, but totally astounding her for years now, she’d never expected them to pay her as if they believed it.

The telephone jingled. She ignored it. Dishes were piled in her sink. Four fresh inches of snow needed a shovel. She really should get around to brushing her hair sometime today. But typically when she was on a marathon work stretch, total immersion was her modus operandi. The rest of life had permission to go hang—but it seemed there was one teensy exception today.

Andy’s face kept popping into her mind. That slow, lazy grin. The dark eyes. The black lightning sizzling in the air every time he touched her. She’d paced the floor for two nights running, trying to analyze the soul connection she felt for him. He said things she’d long believed. She valued the same stuff he did. Maybe the gale force attraction had her knees knocking some—she admitted being rattled, even a little scared, at how blindly she seemed to melt around Andy. Yet being with him felt as natural and right as she’d ever felt with another human being.

It was all going good.

Too good.

Nothing was that perfect. Nothing. Everybody knew relationships took work. Everybody knew there were problems and differences to be sorted out, so damnation, where were the glitches? Why didn’t they show up? Maggie knew darn well she was two inches away from diving off a cliff with him, but somewhere below there had to be a rock. There always was.

The telephone quit ringing the instant the answering machine kicked on. A telemarketer, she assumed, and kept working.

Five minutes later, the phone jangled again. She ignored it again. Three rings later the machine started its leave-a-message spiel. “Maggie? It’s Joanna—if you’re home, please pick up.”

Maggie vaulted out of her chair and grabbed the phone. “I’m right here, hon.”

“I really hate to bother you.

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