Snowflakes and Silver Linings by Cara Colter

Author:Cara Colter
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2013-10-19T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

CASEY CARAVETTA HAD said no to him, and Turner told himself just to be grateful. Damned grateful. She’d picked up that particular lesson very quickly.

He’d always known she was about the smartest girl in the world. No doubt she had seen straight through the act—the egg juggling and the one-handed breakage—to the damage beneath.

The damage that would make a man refuse a pretty girl’s kiss. For her own damn good.

“Forget I asked,” he said gruffly.

And he didn’t like the way she was gazing at him, too closely.

“Did I hurt your feelings now?” she asked softly.

Okay, his head was starting to hurt. There were just way too many feelings being bandied about.

He shot her a look. “No, you didn’t.”

She appeared skeptical and sympathetic.

“You can’t hurt my feelings.”

“Oh, right,” she said in a wounded tone. “The girl you can reject has no power over you. How silly of me.”

“I thought we left that behind us? You can’t hurt my feelings because I don’t have any feelings to hurt.”

She looked at him, and the sympathy in her eyes deepened. “You can’t possibly believe that.”

“Believe it? I know it.”

She looked sympathetic and then exasperated. But it was like reading an open book. He could tell the moment she realized it wasn’t safe to sympathize with him.

“I’m sorry,” she said primly, just as if he had said she had hurt his feelings. “My not wanting to skate anymore is not about you. It’s about me.”

He knew a dig when he heard it.

“We don’t want things to get complicated, after all,” she said sweetly.

“Let’s get something straight. Skating and kissing are not the same thing.”

“Thanks, Sherlock, now I won’t have to look them up in my dictionary.”

“I just thought maybe you’d like to have some fun.”

“And I need you to do that?”

“Are you always this aggravating?”

For a second, from the spark in her eye, he thought she might just demonstrate true aggravation by throwing the cheese grater at his head. Sadly, she regained control and stepped back from the counter.

“There’s enough cheese here for ten omelets, Emily. If you’ll excuse me, I have wild adventures awaiting me in the fun department.”

“Ha. Rereading War and Peace?” Turner muttered.

Casey cast him one more disparaging look. “At least I know how to read.”

Emily was watching his reaction as Casey marched by him, nose in the air, and out the swinging kitchen door.

“I don’t think she handles being teased very well, Turner.”

He turned and gave her his toothiest grin. “I was just trying to be friendly. Who would have thought discussing yoga class could be dangerous?”

“My, my. It’s been a long time since anyone said no to you, hasn’t it, Turner Kennedy?”

He kept the grin. “The week is young.”

“Don’t play with her, Turner.” Emily bit her lip. “Casey’s having a bit of a tough time right now.”

He wasn’t quite sure why, but he didn’t like thinking of Casey having a tough time.

“Why?”

Em hesitated, decided to trust him. “We all lost our friend Melissa this year. Casey also had a breakup.

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