Off the Hook (Fishing for Trouble) by Laura Drewry

Author:Laura Drewry [Drewry, Laura]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Loveswept
Published: 2016-04-11T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

Building a baseball team is like building a house. You look for the best architects, the best builders—and then you let them do their jobs.

—Pat Gillick

It didn’t matter how hard Liam worked them rebuilding the fish shack over the next few days; all Kate could think about were the things he said to her in that damn rowboat.

He wasn’t the only one who remembered things, but saying them out loud was only asking for trouble, wasn’t it? Sure, she could have admitted that every time she looked at him she remembered exactly what it felt like to smooth her hands slowly over his chest, to feel the warm texture of each muscle under her fingers and his heart thumping under her palm. Sure, she could have told him how she still heard the way he used to suck in a shaky breath every time she touched him, or how the sound of him murmuring her name as he ran his fingers up her bare spine had made her love him a little more.

And God help her but she had loved him. She knew it sounded crazy because they’d only known each other such a short time, but it was true. Over the years she’d tried to pinpoint exactly what it was that made her fall in love with him, because if she could narrow it down to one thing, then she might be able to counter it with the things she didn’t like about him.

Good plan, except she could never narrow it down to just one thing.

It was the first night she met him, when they were walking down the Strip and he switched sides with her so she was on the inside of the sidewalk. It was the way he held her hand, firm yet gentle, making her feel safe and mushy all at the same time.

It was the way he’d made everything fun, from the endless pictures Kate had taken, to playing lurker around the slot machines, to holding her purse and chatting up the salesladies while Kate tried on clothes they both knew she couldn’t afford. It was the way he’d ducked into a café to buy a couple of sandwiches—one for the homeless guy sitting against the back of the bus stop and one for the guy’s dog.

It was the determination in his eyes when he talked about playing ball, and at the same time it was the way he didn’t let baseball dominate every conversation. It was the way he seemed truly interested in what Kate had to say, no matter what it was about. It was when she told him she’d never graduated high school and, instead of blowing it off as no big deal, as her mother had, he’d engaged her in a long conversation about things she liked doing and came up with different ideas on how she could turn those interests into a career she liked.

He’d even told her she was smart, and no one had ever done that before.

And just thinking about all of it again, for the millionth time, kicked her pulse up a notch.

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