The Trouble with Tomboys by Linda Kage

Author:Linda Kage [Kage, Linda]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Tags: romance,contemporary,hot
Published: 2015-03-31T04:00:00+00:00

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B.J. had never been inside the main Rawlings homestead before. The thousands of times she’d passed the mansion, she’d always wondered what it was like. Today, she finally found out.

As Grady knocked on the front door, a lump of pure fear settled in the base of her stomach. Telling Pop she was knocked up was one thing. Informing the fancy Rawlings was completely different. Shoving her clammy hands into her back pockets, she waited behind Grady and forced herself to stand still. The urge to turn and flee was pretty strong though.

As the door started to open, she held her breath. She actually expected a maid or butler or something to answer, but when Tara Rose Rawlings herself peeked her head out the door, B.J. almost groaned. Damn. The Rawlings were home.

“Grady,” his mother exclaimed, her eyes brightening instantly.

“Mom,” he murmured respectfully as she reached out to hug him.

“What a delightful surprise.” She hooked her arm with his to draw him forward. “Come in, come in.”

As he moved, she finally noticed B.J. lurking behind him. “Oh! I’m so sorry. I didn’t see you there.” When Grady stepped inside and to the left to let B.J. in, the two women fell to a stop and studied each other cautiously.

Tara Rose’s smile froze. After blinking back a blank look, she asked, “It’s D.J., right? D.J. Gilmore?”

“B.J.,” Grady corrected.

A hint of pink highlighted the tops of his mother’s cheeks. Still smiling at B.J., she spoke through gritted teeth to her son. “That’s what I said.”

“You said D.J.”

His mother finally turned from B.J. to pin her oldest with an annoyed look. “No, I said B. . .not D. Don’t question your mother.”

That was when the most amazing thing happened. Grady grinned.

Both Tara Rose and B.J. gaped.

“Yes, ma’am,” he murmured, all the while smirking from ear to ear.

B.J. was still thinking he had the most enticingly ornery look ever when Tara Rose cleared her throat. “Well, let’s not stand in the foyer all day. Come into the parlor.”

Said the spider to the fly.

B.J. shivered but followed mother and son into the next room, where they all three stood, awkwardly staring at each other as if expecting someone else to break the silence. Tara Rose kept sending curious little glances B.J.’s way, and B.J. was trying to get Grady’s attention by glaring at him, silently urging him to talk. But he seemed intent at rubbing at a scuff on his shoe with the heel of the other boot.

Finally, he glanced around. “Where’s Dad?”

“He received a call and had to check something in the south field.”

Grady grew alert. “Everything okay?”

“I’m sure it is.” Tara Rose pushed his concern aside with the sweep of her hand. “He’s always getting calls. I’m just glad it wasn’t three in the morning this time.”

She grinned B.J.’s way, probably trying to share an inside joke to make her feel included in the conversation.

But the tense smile B.J. returned had the older woman glancing away and sending her son a questioning look that

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