Janet by Peggy Webb

Author:Peggy Webb [Webb, Peggy]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romantic Comedy, Classic Romance, New adult, Southern authors, smalltown romance, the donovans of the delta, dangerous desires
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

Janet drove home in the drizzle, and Dan followed close behind in his pickup truck. When she reached her apartment she hurried inside and waited for Dan with the door held wide.

He shook the rain from his hair before stepping inside.

“Now that’s the kind of welcome home a man likes—a smiling woman, a clean house, and...” He stopped talking and pretended to sniff the air. “What? No aroma of home-baked cookies?”

“I’m smiling because my mouth is permanently frozen in this position, and the cookies are in the pantry in a white baker’s bag.” Smiling, she held out her hand. “Let me hang your jacket in the closet.”

“Not yet. First I have to get you out of your wet clothes.” He caught her shoulders and pulled her forward.

She closed her eyes and everything that was Dan swept over her—the smell of wet leather, the unexpected gentleness of his big hands, the joyful exuberance that seemed bound in his large body. He appealed to the innocent, romantic part of her that had huddled in a rustic cabin with six other little girls in pigtails and made a pact that they would all grow up to walk down the aisle in white dresses with the man of their dreams.

“Your skin is cold—” his fingers traced a line from her chin to the point where her skin disappeared into the top of her coat. Slowly he undid the top button “—and much too irresistible.” Bending over her he carefully kissed away the raindrops that clung to her throat.

She shivered.

“I’m sorry, Janet. I’m being selfish.” Quickly he unbuttoned her wet coat and slid it from her shoulders. Underneath, her wool suit was heavy and damp with rain. “You’re soaked.”

She chuckled. “You needn’t make it sound like I did it deliberately. The rain helped.”

He hung her coat in the closet and started to peel off her jacket. The rain had soaked her silk blouse. For a moment he stood foolishly in the hallway, holding her wool suit jacket halfway off her shoulders, staring down at her as if he had never seen a woman before.

“You tempt me almost beyond endurance.”

She put her hands on his face. “And you, me.”

He pulled her hard against his chest for a kiss that got so far out of control, he was going to scoring the goal before the starting whistle ever blew. He backed off to give both of them some breathing room.

“I shouldn’t have come here tonight, Doc.”

“I invited you.”

“Then you shouldn’t have.”

“Why not?”

“Because I can’t seem to play this game anymore.”

“Was it ever a game, Dan?’’

“I’m not sure.” He reached to twine one of her damp curls around his finger. “All I know is that I’ve got you under my skin, and I can’t seem to do anything about it.”

“Do you want me to prescribe a cure?”

“Can you?”

“No. I’m not good at matters of the heart.”

“I’m not sure that I am, either.” He released the curl and smoothed her hair back from her face. “I used to think I was.

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