The Return of Bowie Bravo by Christine Rimmer

Author:Christine Rimmer [Rimmer, Christine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
ISBN: 9780373656509
Google: O0bSkev-H5IC
Amazon: 0373656505
Barnesnoble: 0373656505
Goodreads: 13261443
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2012-01-24T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

Glory left the doorway and came toward him.

She held out her arms. He got up and gave her the sleeping baby.

Sera didn’t even open her eyes. She made those cute little sucking motions with her tiny flower bud of a mouth and she laid her head right down on Glory’s shoulder.

He whispered, “I don’t know what I did to make you mad this time, Glory.…”

She shook her head. Her eyes were soft by then, but still much too sad. “You’ve been great. Really. It’s not you.”

“Then what?”

“It’s…hard, that’s all. I don’t want you to get the wrong idea about me. I don’t want to get too friendly.”

He got the message. Loud and clear. “You have some idea that I’m putting a move on you?”

She blinked, sucked in a sharp breath. “No. No, really. Not at all.”

“Good, because I wasn’t. I wouldn’t. I understand that it’s long over, with you and me. I get that. I’m fine with that.” Well, all right, it was a lie. He wasn’t fine with it in the least. But so what? She didn’t need to know what he really felt. What he felt was his problem, not hers.

She repeated, so softly, “Fine with it?”

“Yeah,” he lied some more. Why not? In this one case, a lie was the wisest choice. The best choice. “Just fine.”

“We do need to get along.…” She kissed the sleeping baby, smoothed a hand down the fine, dark curls on Sera’s head. “And I’m sorry I’ve been such a bitch the last few days.”

“It’s all right.”

She gave him a look from under her lashes. Humor glinted in those big eyes. “So I have been a bitch, then?”

He asked, still whispering, “Why do I have the feeling that no matter how I answer that one, I’m in trouble?”

“You’re not in trouble,” she said. “You’re doing great. I appreciate all the things you do…around the house, at the store, with Johnny and Sera. You make things better for all of us. You make a difficult time a little bit easier.”

A glow started in the center of him and grew until he felt the shining warmth all through him. He was a sad case, all right. A little praise from her and suddenly the world was all sunshine and rainbows.

She held out her hand. “Friends?”

He took it and studiously ignored the thrill that skittered along the surface of his skin, the kindled heat below his belt. “Friends. Yes, I would like that very much.”

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