LASSOED BY FORTUNE by MARIE FERRARELLA

Author:MARIE FERRARELLA, [FERRARELLA,, MARIE]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ROMANCE
Publisher: HARLEQUIN
Published: 2013-02-01T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Driving to Liam’s ranch that evening, Julia almost turned her car around twice.

She talked herself out of it the first time, but the second time she almost succeeded in talking herself into not going. She would have probably made it home if it wasn’t for the fact that she knew Liam would say that she’d chickened out. The problem was that he would be right. That one small fact would wind up giving him power to lord it over her.

Power over her that she absolutely refused to allow him to have.

So she squared her shoulders, turned around one last time and headed for his ranch. She had to drive as if the devil himself was behind her to make it on time. She’d never been late for anything in her life and she wasn’t about to let this be the first time.

Telling herself that she wasn’t making a mistake she would wind up regretting, Julia walked confidently up to Liam’s front door—in case he was watching—took in a long breath and knocked.

Liam opened the door before her knuckles had a chance to meet the dark wood twice. “You came.”

She couldn’t tell if he was more surprised than pleased or the other way around. The expression on his face was a combination of both.

“Didn’t you think I would?” she asked him as she walked past him and into the front room of his home.

From what she could see, it was a small, sturdy ranch house, very masculine, very him. She remembered hearing somewhere that Liam and his brothers had built it together. They did good work, she couldn’t help thinking in admiration.

“Let’s just say I wasn’t placing any bets on that one way or another,” he told her as he closed the door behind her.

The sound reverberated in her chest but she congratulated herself on her poker face. “Since when did you become so cautious?” she asked, keeping her voice light, amused. “You used to be reckless.”

He shrugged, leading the way into his kitchen. Intrigued by the hint of aroma she detected coming from that direction, Julia didn’t need to be prodded to follow him.

“I grew up,” Liam told her matter-of-factly.

“Oh. When? Sorry.” Julia laughed dismissively in the next breath. The jab she’d just taken at him wasn’t really fair. “I just couldn’t resist. You don’t usually leave yourself that wide open.”

Something on the grill in the center of his stove top was sizzling and Liam turned down the heat. “I’ll be more careful next time. Are you hungry?”

She’d half expected the kitchen to look like a tornado had passed through it, leaving a fire in its wake. Instead everything appeared relatively neat, with several dishes of varying sizes drying on a rack next to the sink. In addition to the main course on the grill, she noticed that the oven was on. Was he baking something in addition to grilling?

“At the moment, I’m more curious than hungry,” she confessed.

He switched off the oven. Whatever he had in there was done.

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