Romance on Mountain View Road by Sheila Roberts

Author:Sheila Roberts [Roberts, Sheila]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781460394083
Publisher: MIRA
Published: 2015-11-11T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

The more people who posted on the website Jonathan had set up for the reunion, the more panicked he became. It was June. The reunion was ten weeks away. He had ten weeks left in which to get buff. He was going to have to double his efforts. Work less, work out more.

At least the dance lessons were going well, he thought as he used one of the instruments of torture at the gym. Lately he’d been meeting Neil after five a couple of days a week. Neil wasn’t done with his shift at the Sweet Dreams warehouse and this wasn’t one of their regular days, but Jonathan figured he knew what he was doing now. He didn’t need babysitting. He increased the weights on the machine and got to it.

Did women have any idea how hard guys worked to get their attention? Almost everything a man did centered on winning a woman’s approval. The jocks showed off their moves on the football field or the basketball court, while the brains tried to impress with their smarts. Brain or brawn, all guys spent a fortune on dinners out, concert tickets or jewelry, whatever it took to get the women of their dreams. They did things they would never even consider in their saner moments, like joining a gym.

Oh, man, this was a killer. Maybe he shouldn’t have increased the weights so much. Push through, that was what Neil had said last time they were here. Okay, pushing through, pushing, pushing. Ow! What the heck? He stopped and rubbed his upper arm. Something had just gotten pushed too far. That couldn’t be good. He decided he’d had enough for the day.

Anyway, he had to go home and get cleaned up. He was due for another dance lesson at his sister’s that night. She’d offered dinner, as well, but he’d made an excuse to avoid that. She was trying to master the art of chili and he wasn’t sure he’d survive it. He wasn’t sure he’d survive the lesson, either. Tonight was East Coast swing, which Juliet had promised would make him look like a rock star on the dance floor. She and Neil had given him a demonstration after he’d passed nightclub two-step with flying colors and she’d declared him ready for something new. It looked like fun, except with all those spins and twists and flips, it also looked incredibly hard. But, hey, being a rock star wasn’t all fun and games.

He played some Frisbee with Chica, ate a tuna sandwich and then showered and put on some cutoff jeans, along with his favorite T-shirt which said Real Men Play Chess.

Chica knew she was being abandoned and she wasn’t happy about it. “Don’t worry,” Jonathan told her. “Adam will be home pretty soon.”

Not that Adam was very good company these days. His date with Chelsea had been a disaster and, once more, she was refusing to take his calls, which made him sullen and antisocial. Actually, Jonathan

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