My Heart May Be Broken, but My Hair Still Looks Great

Author:Cash, Dixie [Cash, Dixie]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Mystery, Humor, Contemporary Women, General, Romance, Fiction
ISBN: 9780061762680
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2006-08-29T07:00:00+00:00

DRIVING BACK to town, Spur gripped the steering wheel as if his ol’ truck might take on a mind of its own and bolt. He had just gone against his every conviction. He didn’t have the time or the money for a woman and all that dating crap, but his sister Electra had been unrelenting in her determination to see him “find someone.” She had talked about little else since he told her about Paige. That was where he had messed up. He shouldn’t have mentioned Paige to Electra, but after the fender bender in Fort Worth, the coincidence of meeting Paige again in an out-of-the-way place like Salt Lick bore telling.

Electra’s reaction had been electric. He remembered her words—This is serendipity. Kismet. She’s your soul mate.

Women. Electra had the perfect marriage to her childhood sweetheart. She held a firm belief that fate provided a mate for everyone, and building a life as two was far better than going it alone.

Electra would never let him rest. If he ignored her attempts at matchmaking too long, she would enlist the aid of the other four sisters, and he would stand no chance at all. Being the only brother of five sisters had taught him many things about women, one of which was to stop resisting early.

To avoid the embarrassment of planned encounters and awkward moments, it was best he take control. He would take Paige to supper. Afterward, he would tell his sister she was wrong, that he and Paige McBride had nothing in common. No chemistry. Their pairing up was a dismal failure. Not a chance in hell. Nope. There was no such thing as kismet, and serendipity was bullshit.

His strongest misgiving lay in what only he knew—the way he reacted when he saw Paige, heard her voice, or smelled her perfume. His pulse quickened and his palms got sweaty. Of course, that could be because it had been so long since he had been with a woman. The real barometer was the roommate in his shorts. Every time he got close to Paige, his roomie tried to stand at attention.

From blocks away he caught sight of the clinic’s sign. SALT LICK VETERINARY CLINIC. He still couldn’t believe he owned his own practice. Or was in the process of owning it. The bank loan was big, but the interest rate was low, and with a built-in clientele, he had a chance to make a comfortable living. He would have to work hard, but he was no stranger to that.

As long as he could remember, he had been working. When his dad gave up living and crawled into the warmth and security of a whiskey bottle, Spur had found odd jobs, helping put food on the table for his mother and sisters. There had been times when there wasn’t enough to go around and more than once he had gone to bed hungry. In those days, he was thankful he had a bed to go to.

He had wanted to drop out of school and get a full-time job, but his mother wouldn’t hear of it.

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