The Hometown Hero Returns by Beth Kery

Author:Beth Kery [Kery, Beth]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Contemporary, Fiction, Romance
ISBN: 0373655940
Publisher: harlequin
Published: 2010-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

Mari awoke the next morning to the sound of her cell phone ringing in her purse. She opened her eyes. The sunlight streaming through the window was so intense, she had to squint.

She squeaked in panic and raised her head.

“What’s wrong?” Marc asked groggily.

For two seconds, Mari just stared incredulously at him. The vision of him—naked, sleep-rumpled and sexy as hell—seemed to score her consciousness. She lay in the circle of his arms. Her head had been resting on his chest. Everything came back to her in a rush: the storm that had raged outside of the house and inside of the bedroom, as well, the sensual hours of making love throughout the night, the complete focus on one another as they tried to get their fill…

Never fully succeeding.

Mari glanced over at Marc’s mouth and the succulent flesh of dense pectoral and shoulder muscles.

“It looks like it’s late, and I have an appointment at the hospital at nine-thirty, not to mention a ton of other things I need to do today,” Mari said.

The drowsy look in Marc’s blue eyes evaporated.

“What’s wrong? Why do you have a doctor’s appointment,” he demanded.

“It’s nothing,” she murmured. She touched his upper arm as a signal to warn him that she was getting out of bed, but instead, she lingered, caressing his bulging biceps with appreciative fingertips. “I’ve been struggling with a little bug ever since the plane trip from San Fran to Detroit,” she said, sighing when she felt Marc’s fingers at the back of her scalp.

“You don’t seem sick to me.”

His low rumble caused her to open her heavy eyelids, which had uncooperatively drifted closed under the influence of Marc’s massage.

“I agree. I’m fine. I’m just doing it to humor Eric,” she whispered.

His hand ceased moving.

“Reyes?”

Mari blinked. “Yes,” she said hesitantly, taking in Marc’s stiff features. “He saw me get sick the other night and made a big deal about making an appointment for me. He’s a doctor, you know.”

“Yeah. I know.”

Her mouth fell open but nothing came out. She knew that both Eric and Natalie had used the money from the lawsuit to get educations and improve their prospects. Their mother had come from Puerto Rico years back with little more than the clothing on her back. She’d worked for eighteen hours a day as a maid in various locales to support her two children. Miriam Reyes had drilled the importance of education in her children’s heads.

Mari admired Natalie and Eric for what they’d done after their mother had been killed in the crash. How many people won lawsuits only to throw away the money on foolish schemes or unneeded luxuries? Not the Reyes. Instead, they had carefully planned futures for themselves, keeping in mind what their mother would have wanted for her children. No one could replace a loved one with money, but being careful about what was done with that money made a difference.

It did to Mari, anyway.

She swallowed as she glanced at Marc. “So…you found out that the Reyeses used the lawsuit money to get educations.

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