Operation Blind Date by Justine Davis - Cutter's Code 03 - Operation Blind Date

Author:Justine Davis - Cutter's Code 03 - Operation Blind Date [Davis, Justine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Contemporary
ISBN: 9780373278299
Google: MbffHrnlk4sC
Amazon: B00BK0XMGS
Goodreads: 17278025
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2012-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 20

“It could have been me.”

Laney’s quiet words drew him out of his brooding contemplation of his nearly empty coffee mug. He wondered if he was really resisting taking that last sip because once the mug was empty, he had no reason to stay and every reason to go.

And he didn’t want to go.

“I know that’s incredibly selfish of me to even think about, but...”

Her voice trailed off. Teague barely managed not to reach out and take her hand once more. They’d come perilously close to throwing gas on that fire already tonight.

“It’s not,” he said, keeping both hands wrapped around the mug, a blue-and-green stoneware piece that looked as if it had been handmade. It went with the colors in the apartment. The kind of touch only designers or women seemed to think of; his own small place was utilitarian and safely neutral in color. “It’s only natural.”

“He seemed nice enough. I could have said yes and gone out with him.”

Teague ignored the stab in the gut the words gave him.

“If I hadn’t been so busy with the shop, trying to build it up, I might have.”

“No other reason not to?”

Her expression changed, to a worried frown. She shook her head slightly. “I swear, he seemed nice enough.”

That hadn’t been what he’d meant. And now he felt guilty, for trying to ferret out if there was another man in her life while she was still so worried about her friend.

Another man?

Get your head out of your backside, he ordered himself. You’re not in her life, not like that, and you’re not going to be. At least, not until this was resolved. After that? He didn’t want to admit how fiercely he was clinging to that thought.

“I didn’t get any weird vibe from him that made me say no, if that’s what you mean,” she said. “I just wasn’t attracted.”

He nodded, as if that was what he’d been trying to ask all along. And suddenly he realized he had his answer anyway. He’d been right all along. There couldn’t be anyone serious in her life, or she wouldn’t have even considered going out with someone else. She just wasn’t the type. He wasn’t sure how he knew, why he was so certain, but he was. Laney Adams was a one-at-a-time kind of girl. No playing a wide field for her.

“Not consciously, anyway,” she said, staring into her own mug now. After a moment she looked up again, meeting his gaze with her own troubled eyes. “God, you don’t think maybe I did? That maybe I sensed something under the surface that some part of me knew he was dangerous, and that’s really why I said no?”

“It can happen,” he said, keeping his tone carefully even. “Quinn says that’s what instincts often are. That in fact you’re processing information so fast your conscious mind skips a few steps, so what seems like intuitive jumps are really just the end of a lightning-fast thinking process.”

“But if that’s true, then why

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