THE BABY MADE AT CHRISTMAS by LILIAN DARCY

Author:LILIAN DARCY, [DARCY,, LILIAN]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ROMANCE
Publisher: HARLEQUIN
Published: 2013-10-05T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Mary Jane arrived home from her spa vacation in Vermont at lunchtime the next day.

Mac was sitting in the office making calls on his cell phone to friends and contacts at ski schools and management headquarters in the region, while Lee browsed the computer, looking at all the changes Daisy had made to the Spruce Bay website—their reservation system, their restaurant menu, their specials packages and various other things. It all looked great, so much more up-to-date than the tired old place it had been before Mom and Dad retired.

Lee heard Mary Jane’s car, and then saw it zoom up to a parking spot in front of the office and come to a sudden halt, making a slightly strange noise in its engine before Mary Jane turned it off. She jumped out, grabbed her bags from the trunk, bounced up the steps and flung open the door, looking trim and relaxed and energized, with her brown hair full of golden highlights and swinging around her face. “Hey...I’m back!”

At which point Lee registered just how at home Mac looked here in the office. He was rocked back in a swivel chair with his feet on the spare desk and one hand cradling the back of his neck, saying into the phone, “So could I come up and take a look around? Like, soon?”

“Oh,” said Mary Jane, taking him in.

The running shoes.

The rolled shirtsleeves.

And possibly also the olive skin, black eyes and very nice arm muscles, all of which Lee had been very much enjoying since yesterday.

She pushed back from the computer and came around the main desk to give Mary Jane a hug and take one of her bags. “Um, that’s Mac,” she said a little awkwardly, sticking a thumb in his direction.

“Good to meet you, Mac,” said Mary Jane, in a very level tone.

He was still on the phone, listening and saying, “Uh-huh,” at intervals, but he gave her a wave and a nod and a smile.

“So does he live here or work here?” she murmured.

“Neither.”

But Lee couldn’t blame her sister for the question. The whole office exuded an atmosphere of casual—and possibly quite sexy—familiarity between the two of them.

Yesterday, with the snow thickening in the air around them and beginning to settle on the ground, they’d walked back from the lake hugged close in each other’s arms. He’d said just before they went inside, “I really hit you with all of that, didn’t I? Like, wham, full in the face.”

“You needed to. I needed to hear it. Thank you.”

“It probably explains a few things.” He’d spoken slowly. “Couple of times where I might have overreacted.”

“It does,” she agreed.

“Are we okay now?”

“How okay do you mean?”

“I don’t understand the question,” he said.

“We kind of broke up yesterday,” she reminded him. “And then this morning we...well, did the usual.”

“Doesn’t seem like we’re broken up, then, does it?” he suggested. He cupped her butt possessively.

“No.”

“Do you want to be broken up?” he asked.

“No. I like you. I really like being with you.

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