MacKenzie's Woman by Joann Ross

Author:Joann Ross [Ross, Joann]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781460860380
Google: 6zChMgDYYccC
Amazon: B0056I06OG
Publisher: Harlequin Treasury-Harlequin Temptation 90s
Published: 2011-07-14T16:00:00+00:00

9

THE FIRST THING K.J. noticed when she returned to the hut was that Alec was still there, sitting at the table, his attention on the screen of the laptop computer, which he’d hooked up to a car battery. The second thing was the enticing aroma that filled the compact room.

“Is that dinner I smell?”

“Yeah.” He glanced up. “I figured you might not be up to eating with everyone in the communal dining lodge after your long trip, so I rounded up a light meal for you.”

“It doesn’t include termites, does it?”

“Damn.” He slapped his forehead. “Did you want a side of termites?” He pushed back from the table and stood up. “If you’ll just wait a minute, I’ll go out to that mound at the edge of the village and—”

“No!” She caught his arm as he was about to pass her on the way to the door. “I don’t really want any termites.”

“Okay. How about some beetles? They’re a little crunchy, but there’s nothing tastier than a deep-fried borer beetle dipped in hot sauce.”

He was kidding, K.J. assured herself. Surely he didn’t actually expect her to eat insects? She couldn’t help wondering if her mother had ever been forced to such extremes on similar excursions.

“They sound delicious,” she said with a false smile. Just in case this was a test, K.J. was determined to pass. “However, I’m really not all that hungry, and fried food is so filling. And fattening.”

“Whatever you say. Though a few more pounds wouldn’t hurt.”

Even as she reminded herself that continuing to spar with a man was not exactly the way to win him over, K.J. splayed her hands on her hips. “Are you calling me skinny?”

He cocked his head and studied her, his piercing, cool eyes treating her to an unnervingly long, slow appraisal that began at her freshly washed hair, which she could feel curling into unruly springs, down to her feet, which were clad in a very unsexy pair of hiking boots that the man in the outfitters store had assured her she’d need to protect her feet from all sorts of unsavory-sounding things animal, vegetable and mineral.

Seconds ticked by as those cool gray eyes returned to her face. “Well, you may have gotten a little scrawny—”

“Scrawny?”

“But you definitely still have curves in all the right places,” he said encouragingly.

“I’m so pleased you approve.” K.J. knew that compared to Sonia, the voluptuous, sloe-eyed barmaid, she’d definitely come out on the short end of the stick. Even worse. There was no comparison.

“Still, a little more meat on your bones wouldn’t hurt all that much.” When his eyes drifted back to her breasts, K.J. had to fight the ridiculous impulse to arch her spine to give them a bit more thrust. “You’ve lost weight, Kate.”

“I have not.” What on earth was the matter with her? How was she going to get him to agree to a divorce if she kept arguing with everything he said?

Alec ignored her crisp denial. He just kept looking straight at

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