Something To Talk About by Laurie Paige

Author:Laurie Paige
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Silhouette
Published: 2001-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

Kate woke to the step-thump of her renter on the porch. She sat up and blinked at him, the afternoon sun causing her to squint sleepily.

He stopped a couple of feet away. “There’s something restful about a sleeping woman,” he murmured, his gaze dark and moody. He didn’t look at all restful, but more like a hungry lion on the prowl.

Her blood thrummed pleasantly through her body. She was hungry, too. She wanted the feel and smell and taste of him. She wanted to bury her face against his chest and know his strength surrounded her, tempered by the gentleness of his care for her. She wanted too much, she reminded herself.

“Is there something you need?” she asked when he continued to gaze at her. “Towels? Sheets?”

His lips curled into an attractive half smile. “The perfect landlady,” he mocked, but with a gentleness at odds with the hunger in his eyes.

She dropped her gaze. Her hands were clenched in her lap. She unlocked them and smoothed her hair into place. “What do you want?”

“Do you have a motor for the rowboat? It’s made to take one on the back.”

“I think there’s a trolling motor somewhere in the garage. Kris liked to cruise around the lake, supposedly fishing but mostly staying out of the way of ‘honey-do’ projects.”

He laughed, surprising her.

She laughed, too, and was surprised again, this time at herself.

“That’s the first time I’ve heard you say his name,” Jess said, his manner thoughtful.

“But you knew it. Did you read the newspaper accounts? Of course you did,” she answered her own question.

“How did you get to the phone to call for help? You had to have been bleeding badly.”

“I crawled,” she said. “How did you get the guy who shot you and was trying to take a woman hostage?”

“Mostly hopped on one foot.” His smile was like a lost ray of sunshine beaming on her. “We’re a matched pair of warriors.”

“Scars and all,” she said, agreeing.

“Someday you’ll show me yours,” he said in a deepened voice, low and sexy and thrilling.

She tried to shake her head, to deny the hunger, but she couldn’t. His eyes locked with hers. Messages sped between them like golden sparks bouncing from her to him, him to her.

“The motor?” he finally said.

She led the way to the garage. Together they searched through boxes she should have thrown out long ago and along shelves piled with broken parts to equipment long discarded.

“My gosh, the clutter,” she grumbled at one point.

He grunted and continued searching through a big box of odds and ends. After ten minutes, they found the motor on a shelf mounted over the garage door.

“It doesn’t look too promising,” she ventured.

He took the small engine outside to examine it. “I think I can clean it up and get it running. If you don’t mind.”

“Of course not. Are you going to fish?”

“I’m going to cruise around the lake,” was all he would admit to.

“I know generally where the sailboat went down. I can guide you there,” she volunteered.

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