The Daddy Dance by Mindy Klasky

Author:Mindy Klasky [Klasky, Mindy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance, Contemporary
ISBN: 9780263894226
Google: zhu4pIEqYh0C
Amazon: B006847A8C
Goodreads: 12242732
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2011-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

Rye stood in the dance studio, surveying the stack of hardwood flooring. Brandon was the cousin he’d enlisted for assistance that day. He was pretty sure the guy had only agreed to come over because he hoped Amanda Morehouse would be visiting Kat. Rye had probably implied as much, now that he thought about it. He didn’t feel too guilty, though. In the past, Brandon had roped Rye into worse duty on the family’s huge organic farm.

“The staple guns are out in the truck,” Rye said. “The saw is there, too, along with the rolls of waterproofing to lay out beneath the wood.”

“I’m pretty sure that I’m the one who taught you how to install a hardwood floor,” Brandon retorted.

“Just trying to be helpful,” Rye said. He didn’t mind his cousin’s gruff reply. Instead, he took advantage of Brandon’s expertise to head toward the office, to the private refuge where he knew Kat was hard at work.

Kat. Even now, he could feel her weight on his chest, her body melted and cooling after the pleasure he had given her. The memory, though, made a corner of his heart curl in reflexive avoidance.

He hadn’t thought this through. He hadn’t realized quite how hard he was falling for Kat, how much she had come to mean to him. There was no way that their lives could ever come together—she was determined to get back to New York the second she was shed of that walking boot, if not before. It had been what? Three weeks already? She’d said that she was only going to wear it for a month. One more week—at most—and then she’d be gone forever.

And he certainly couldn’t put all the blame on her for his current discomfort. He hadn’t been lying when he’d told her he had an early Saturday meeting in Richmond. Late Friday night, actually early Saturday morning, he had finally carried her to her bed, tucked her in beneath her comforter and stroked her hair until she fell back to sleep. But then he’d left, hitting the road, letting the freeway roll out beneath his headlights as he drove home in the dark of night.

He hadn’t called on Saturday. Sunday either. He’d needed to put some distance between them—emotional space to match the physical one.

This whole thing shouldn’t be as difficult as it was turning out to be. So what if Kat was heading back to New York soon? Rye could always come down to Eden Falls, stay here until she left. Who knew what would grow between them in the time that they had?

No.

He wasn’t going to do that again. Wasn’t going to cash in his dreams. If he walked away from Richmond now, he knew that he would never again find the nerve to build his own business. He would stay here in Eden Falls until he was old and withered and gray, until he couldn’t even remember what to do with a woman as intoxicating as Kat.

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