The Bodyguard And Ms. Jones by Susan Mallery

Author:Susan Mallery [Mallery, Susan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781460380253
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2014-04-17T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

The crash of thunder echoed through the house. Mike sat upstairs in the game room, watching the bolts of lightning filling the sky. Rain pounded against the windows. According to the weather channel on television, the storm was going to be a bad one, lasting most of the afternoon. He stretched out on the sofa, propped his feet on the coffee table and prepared to enjoy the show.

The wound in this thigh had almost healed. He’d been working out regularly at the country club, but never on weekends. His strength was returning, although his endurance was going to take a little longer to reach one hundred percent. It was a slow process, but he was improving daily. That’s what he’d come to Sugar Land to do.

He glanced at the clock above the entertainment center. It was late Saturday afternoon. He’d begun to measure his life in two-week increments. The beginning and ending of each time period was Jonathan and Allison spending the weekend with their father. They’d left that morning.

He didn’t see them every day, but he still missed them when they were gone. At least every other day, they came over and invited him to play in the greenbelt or go to lunch or a movie with them. The invitations rarely came from Cindy and he wasn’t sure if she liked his tagging along or not. She always seemed pleased to see him. If she’d been one of his usual women, he would have known exactly what she was thinking. If she’d been one of his usual women, he wouldn’t have cared as much.

In the last few weeks, he’d begun depending on her less. The grocery store was no longer strange. He’d gotten used to everyone’s knowing who he was. Since word had spread that he and Cindy were an item, the illicit invitations had slowed. He was grateful, but he sometimes wondered what would happen to Cindy when he was gone. Would everyone assume she’d been dumped? He hadn’t thought that far ahead when he’d asked her to pretend to be involved with him. She hadn’t mentioned it, but that didn’t mean there weren’t ramifications for her.

A bolt of lightning hit the ground close to the house. The instantaneous explosion of thunder shook the windows. He rose to his feet and walked downstairs. His limp was barely noticeable. He crossed the kitchen and stared out the window at Cindy’s house. From this side he couldn’t see anything but her fence and front yard. For all he knew, she was gone. Or entertaining.

He grimaced, not wanting to think about her being with another man. Why wouldn’t she be? She was bright, pretty, sexy as hell. Unless all the single men in the area were blind, someone had to have noticed her.

With her pretending to be involved with him, he knew it was illogical to assume she had a man in her house, but once the thought was planted, he couldn’t let it go. He wanted to walk over and find out, but he couldn’t think of a good enough excuse.

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