Paws for Love by Mara Wells

Author:Mara Wells
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sourcebooks
Published: 2020-12-20T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 20

Knox kept both hands on the wheel, mostly to keep them from either rubbing his still painful leg or reaching for Danielle, who had dressed like he’d told her: jeans and a T-shirt. But the way the lavender scoop-neck tee outlined her breasts and how those jeans hugged her rounded hips, that was all Danielle. So much for thinking a daytime date would make everything less intense.

“Are you sure you’re up for this?” Danielle chewed on her lower lip, her fingers twining and untwining themselves in her lap. “I mean, after yesterday?”

The VA had eventually sent him home after scheduling more tests for the near future. Tests he’d had before and that never came back with the results he desperately wanted. Maybe this time would be different. Maybe not. He needed to plan for bad news, but not today. Today was for Danielle. Thankfully, after a night of rest and alternating heat and ice, his leg was cooperating. Mostly.

“I’m not juggling any bathroom sinks today, so I should be fine.” He didn’t want to cloud this, their first date in decades, with medical talk. He for sure wasn’t going to mention how his leg still hurt like hell, especially if he put all his weight on it. Driving didn’t strain his injury, and it wasn’t as if he planned to stand around on one leg like a drowsy flamingo.

Knox surreptitiously checked the directions on his phone. He’d propped it on his left thigh, angled slightly toward the door, to keep Danielle from easily seeing their destination. His plan also made it more difficult for him to see the directions, but once they hopped on the extension, it was a fairly straight shot to their location.

“The turnpike?” Danielle swiveled in the passenger seat, pointing at the overhead sign as they passed under the southbound sign. “We’re not going to the Keys, are we? I can’t be gone that long. The puppies—”

“You are a difficult woman to surprise.” Knox cut across a lane. “There are things south of Miami that are not the Keys.”

“Such as?” she asked as if she hadn’t grown up here, that teasing smile he adored on her lips.

Lips he was going to kiss today. What was the point of a date if there wasn’t any kissing? Wasn’t that the difference between plans with a friend and a date? The whole bodily contact thing? If this was the only date she ever agreed to, he planned to get as much of that bodily contact as possible. Starting now. He reached across the center console and grasped her hand. She sighed and flipped her hand so their fingers interlaced.

“Patience. Besides, didn’t you tell me Flurry is a good mother?”

“She needs to be let out. And—”

“And don’t you live in your father’s backyard? He wouldn’t let her out if you texted him?”

“Of course he would. So we are going to the Keys?”

He grinned at her tenaciousness. “No, but you can settle in. It’s a bit of a drive.”

“Mystery man.” She thumped back in the seat, his hand still in hers.

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