The Best Men 2: Man of Fortune by Rochelle Alers

Author:Rochelle Alers [Alers, Rochelle]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Romance, General, Contemporary, Fiction
ISBN: 9781426835414
Google: 8yEM1MobujMC
Amazon: B002F082WG
Publisher: Kimani Press
Published: 2009-07-01T04:00:00+00:00

Rochelle Alers

225

“Come in, come in, come in,” he crooned.

Duncan looped an arm around Kyle’s neck.

“Thanks for the invite. Kyle, I’d like you to meet

Tamara Wolcott. Tamara, this is Kyle Chatham,

friend and brother.”

Tamara offered her hand, but Kyle ignored it as

he leaned over and kissed her cheek. “Welcome.”

She met her host’s glittering, warm brown

slanting eyes. His face was angular with high

chiseled cheekbones. There was a sprinkling of gray

in his cropped hair. Duncan had told her that Kyle

had just proposed to a young woman, and they

planned to marry in Puerto Rico on Valentine’s Day.

Where, she mused, were men like Duncan

Gilmore and Kyle Chatham when she’d been

looking for a good black man? She berated herself

as soon as the thought entered her head. The answer

was she hadn’t been looking; she’d spent half her

time studying and the other half working long

hours, leaving little or no time for a social life.

She’d had more fun cooking and making love

with Duncan in the past two days than she’d had

since she’d begun medical school. Earlier that

morning he’d made breakfast. One of his favorite

dishes was eggs Benedict and Tamara had showed

him how to substitute smoked salmon for the

Canadian bacon, which reduced the sodium content.

Tamara smiled, handing Kyle a cake box.

“Here’s a little something for dessert.”

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Man of Fortune

Kyle took the box, his gaze narrowing.

“What’s in here?”

“Cannoli,” Duncan said. “I know they’re your

favorite.”

“Hot damn, DG, you’re the man!” Kyle said,

grinning from ear to ear. “Let’s go in the back.”

“Who’s here?” Duncan asked, reaching for

Tamara’s hand and following Kyle across a spacious

foyer with a marble floor into an über-modern

kitchen and out a back door to a patio where people

milled around talking, eating and drinking.

Tamara breathed a sigh of relief. She’d thought

she was going to be overdressed when she’d opted

to pair a white shortsleeved silk blouse with a pair

of navy linen slacks. The nautical theme was

repeated in a pair of blue-and-white striped espa-

drilles that added an additional three inches to her

statuesque figure.

“Micah and Tessa, Ivan with his date, and Jordan

and his girlfriend.”

Duncan lifted his eyebrows. “I didn’t know

Jordan had a girlfriend.”

“He does and she prepared most of the food.

Natasha is in her last year of culinary school.”

Duncan caught Kyle’s arm, pulling him aside

before he began the introductions. “Tamara would

like to talk to you about a legal matter.”

“What is it, Tamara?”

“I need a referral for a very good divorce attorney.”

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227

Kyle stared at the tall, stunning, full-figured

woman who could easily pass for a model. He

hadn’t expected Duncan to bring a date, because it’d

been a long time since he’d seen his friend and fi-

nancial manager with a woman he felt comfortable

enough with to introduce to his friends.

“I usually don’t handle divorces,” Kyle admitted,

“but my partner has handled a few. If you want a

shark, then Jordan is one of the best. He’s the one

with his arm around the chef. Come and I’ll intro-

duce you to him.”

Duncan dropped a kiss on Tamara’s hair. “Can I

get you something to drink?”

“Iced tea.”

She’d said the first thing that came to her mind.

It was the middle of the afternoon and with tempera-

tures in the low eighties Tamara wanted to limit her

intake of alcohol to avoid dehydration.

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