The Reluctant Texas Rancher (Harlequin American Romance) by Thacker Cathy Gillen

Author:Thacker, Cathy Gillen [Thacker, Cathy Gillen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin Enterprises
Published: 2015-09-08T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

“You okay?”

Liz looked up to see Travis in the doorway of her private office. As usual whenever she caught sight of him, her heart gave a little leap. Not that he needed to know that. Especially after the way he had goaded her into speaking her mind to her family that very morning, when she already had her hands so full.

She tipped up her chin, trying not to notice how attractive Travis was at any time of day or night, with his dark brown hair and intent gray eyes. She reached for her bottle of mineral water and took a long sip. Pulse thudding, she regarded him over the rim, wondering how he knew just how to get to her. No matter what the situation…

“Why wouldn’t I be?” she asked, wishing that her paralegal hadn’t just left to pick up his son at day care, and that Travis hadn’t arrived just in time to find her with her feet propped up on the desk, kicking back after a very busy and productive day.

“Oh, I don’t know.” He strolled on in, eyes falling to her polished toenails. “Maybe because your mom is nonstop in her efforts to get you to extend the Cartwright bloodlines?”

As graciously as possible, Liz swung her feet to the floor. She tugged her skirt down and slipped on her heels. On warm days, when she didn’t have to be in court, she didn’t bother wearing panty hose. “You don’t seem to mind.”

He shook his head. “I get the same thing at home.” He sat down on the corner of her desk, his twill work shirt taut across his shoulders, looser over his flat abs. His jeans gloved everything else perfectly.

“Although I have to admit…” Travis waggled his brows “…not quite as directly.”

Liz pushed her chair backward, wheeling across the carpeted office floor to the built-in cabinet. Opening it, she pulled out another bottle of mineral water and handed it over.

After murmuring “thanks,” he twisted off the cap and continued, “I suppose it’s no surprise, since we’re both unattached and of baby-making age.”

She wheeled her chair back to her desk, and after taking another drink, he asked, “Do you want children?”

Another question she didn’t expect. And normally would be inclined not to answer.

Something about the way he was looking at her prompted Liz to let down her guard. “Don’t you dare tell my mom I said this, but yes, I do. When the time and man are right.” Liz picked at a loose strip of label on her bottle. “What about you?” She reached beneath the desk and dropped the piece of paper into the trash.

Travis gazed at her candidly. “I want kids, too.” A slow, sexy smile followed. “But like you…only when the time and the woman are right,” he confided. “I’m not going to get hitched just because someone else thinks my biological clock should be ticking.”

“Amen to that,” Liz muttered, lifting her mineral water in salute.

Another contemplative silence fell. She pushed away the fantasy of one day making a baby with him.

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