The Makeover Prescription by Christy Jeffries

Author:Christy Jeffries
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2016-08-02T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Kane wished he’d never challenged Julia to learn how to ride this blasted tandem bicycle. Then, to make matters worse, he’d popped off and issued the most idiotic wager in the history of all idiotic wagers. If she won, he’d be stuck attending the stupid hospital fund-raiser dance next month. If he won, he would have to sit home alone and wonder about whomever he ended up picking as Julia’s date and whether the jerk was treating her well and keeping his hands to himself.

It was a lose-lose situation.

“Stop leaning to the left,” he called out behind him. “You’re going to make us fall over.”

“But the boys said I need to lean left when I want to go right.”

“Jules, you’re the stoker. I’m the captain.”

“So?”

“So, when you’re the person in back, you can go only where the person in front steers you.”

“Maybe I should try being in the front,” she suggested. “That way, I can steer.”

“For the eighteenth time, until you can learn how to hold yourself upright, I’m not letting you near the front seat.”

“Has anyone ever told you that you have control issues, Kane Chatterson?”

That was an understatement if ever there was one.

As they pedaled clumsily around the driveway, Kane’s thoughts kept turning to the idea of Julia...dating. And how distasteful the idea was. He’d be damned if he’d let his family set Just Julia up with his brainiac younger brother Kaleb. Or, for that matter, Luke’s macho navy SEAL friend, Renault. The guy sounded like a total loser, if you asked Kane, and not at all the type of man Julia should be interested in. What kind of name was Renault anyway?

He’d almost volunteered to go as her date himself, but knew better than to set himself up for rejection with his family there to make fun of him. Plus, her suggestion that he bring his own plus-one was all the evidence he needed that she’d rather give someone the Heimlich maneuver again than go to a social function with him. So now he was stuck trying to teach her how to ride this stupid tandem bike, completely unsure of whether he wanted her to succeed or fail.

All he knew was that if she didn’t start maintaining some sense of balance, he was going to fall and break his other shoulder and wind up doubly screwed—with all of his family witnessing the potential crash.

“Hmph,” he said as he overcorrected to the right. “Now that you’ve met my family, you can see that I came by my control issues naturally.”

“That’s definitely a fair assessment.” He heard her chuckle from behind him. “Hey, did it bother you when your dad was asking you all those questions about your future?”

Julia was more likely to pedal while she talked, and the only way to remain upright was to keep her pedaling in sync with him. Which meant he had to keep her distracted with conversation.

“Not really,” he admitted. “I know they all worry about me, but I guess I’ve given them plenty of reason to in the past.

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