Meant for Each Other by Ginna Gray

Author:Ginna Gray [Gray, Ginna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin Treasury
Published: 2011-06-07T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Mike’s eyes narrowed. Leah looked worried. He also noted the nervous way she twisted her fingers together, the tautness of her body.

Something had upset her—something about her father’s visit. Until they had walked into Quinton’s room she’d been fine—a little dazed by his kiss, perhaps, but not tense or worried. Yet the instant she’d spotted Peter Albright she had turned into a bundle of nerves. What had happened to upset her so? The visit had seemed amicable enough.

True, Mike had been a bit surprised at their manner. In his large family they greeted one another with hugs and kisses and genuine affection, not that polite restraint that Leah and her father had exhibited toward each other. Hell, he’d seen strangers meet with more enthusiasm than that.

Even so, nothing had been said or done during that brief meeting to cause her concern.

But she was definitely upset about something.

“Is anything wrong?” he asked quietly, moving to stand beside her.

Leah glanced at him, and what he saw in her eyes increased his uneasiness.

“No. No, of course not. Everything’s fine,” Leah replied brightly.

Too brightly.

He studied her in silence, and she shifted nervously. He wanted to challenge the statement, but he sensed that now wasn’t the time. “Well, that’s good. Are you ready to go to dinner?”

“I...”

She glanced again in the direction her father had taken. As Mike watched, she seemed to reach a decision that he suspected had more to do with her problem than his question. Squaring her shoulders, she tilted her chin and gave him a determined smile.

“Yes. I’m ready whenever you are.”

“Hey, sport, you don’t mind if we take off, do you?”

Quinton looked anything but displeased. He lay propped up on a pile of pillows with his hands clasped behind his head, his expression as smug as a cat full of cream. “Nah. There’s a John Wayne movie on television that I want to watch tonight anyway. So go ahead.”

Though she tried to put up a good front during the walk to the car and the short drive that followed, Mike wasn’t fooled. Leah’s side of their conversation consisted mostly of one-word replies to his questions and occasional spurts of desperately cheerful chatter, but in between she was quiet and preoccupied.

“Here we are.”

At the sound of Mike’s voice Leah jumped. “What? Oh, are we there already? I’m sorry. I must have been daydreaming.”

Mike watched her as she looked around. The sun was beginning to set, giving the dim light a reddish glow. Through the gloaming, he saw her eyes widen.

“Where are we? This isn’t a restaurant.”

“No. It’s my house.”

Her head snapped around. “Your house?”

“It’s a town house, actually, but I call it home.”

“But you said—”

“That I was going to treat you to one of the best meals you’ve ever had. It will be, I promise.”

“But you didn’t tell me we were going to your place.”

“Yeah, well, I thought it was past time that one of us saw how the other lived.” The words blurted out before he could stop them, his voice tinged with resentment he could not hide.

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