The Stranger In Room 205 (Hot Off The Press Book 1) by Gina Wilkins

Author:Gina Wilkins [Wilkins, Gina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Contemporary, Fiction, Adult, Romance, Newspaper, Small Town, Drifter, Hospital, Violence
ISBN: 9781459243903
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Goodreads: 934910
Publisher: Silhouette Special Edition
Published: 2012-05-15T04:00:00+00:00

Sam was working in the yard when Serena arrived home from work on the following Friday. The grass was freshly mowed, and he was running a weed trimmer around the fence. It was still quite hot, even though the sun was dipping close to the horizon. Sam’s T-shirt, wet with sweat, clung to his skin. He’d ditched the wrist brace a few days earlier, and his arms looked strong and muscular. From beneath the cap that shaded his face from the late afternoon sun, his hair hung damply around his face, and there was a streak of dirt on one cheek.

Serena felt her mouth go dry.

Seeing her watching him, he turned off the noisy machine. She felt a need to fill the sudden silence. “Hi.”

He wiped the back of one wrist across his forehead. “Hi. How was your day?”

“Long. The yard looks great. You worked hard.”

He shrugged. “Marjorie said she wasn’t happy with the lawn service she hired last time, so I told her I’d take care of it until she found someone else.”

“You don’t have to do this, you know.”

“We’ve had this conversation before.” He hefted the weed trimmer over his shoulder. “I’ll put this back in the garage.”

Since it was obvious there was no need to try again to convince him that he didn’t have to repay every debt immediately—and obvious that he had recovered amazingly well from the injuries he’d sustained only two weeks earlier—she changed the subject as she followed him into the garage. They hadn’t had much chance to talk during the past few days. She’d been extremely busy with her law practice and the newspaper business—or at least that’s what she’d told herself while she avoided him long enough to recover from a brief kiss that had nearly knocked her for a loop. “That’s the cap Dan gave you when you went fishing Sunday, isn’t it?”

“Yeah. He insisted I keep it.”

“To be honest, I was rather surprised to hear that he invited you.”

“So was I.” Sam set the weed trimmer in its rack. “He said everyone else was busy.”

“I think he’s starting to like you.”

“Oh, I wouldn’t go that far.”

“Don’t you think there’s a chance you and Dan could become friends?”

“I certainly wouldn’t want the chief of police for an enemy.”

He was being even more exasperatingly uncommunicative than usual. Maybe he was tired, or maybe he was making sure there was no repeat of that kiss last Saturday night. Very wise of him, of course. It had to be as obvious to him as it was to her that it would be a mistake for them to get involved, even on a temporary basis. They could be friends, of course—but nothing more. And that was exactly the way it should be.

“I guess I’d better go in,” she said, taking a step backward. “I have some things to—”

Her words ended in a gasp when the heel of her pump slid on a nail that had been lying unnoticed on the concrete floor, causing her ankle to twist sharply.

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