Then There Was You by Kara Isaac

Author:Kara Isaac [Isaac, Kara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction
ISBN: 9780473396558
Publisher: Bellbird Press
Published: 2017-06-21T16:00:00+00:00

Josh could almost see the cogs turning in Paige’s mind as she stared at him.

Top teeth pinched her bottom lip, her lashes fluttering. She was going to cry. Oh, Lord, she was going to cry. Why? It was only a joke. And one that lots of people got pulled on them. Though, he had to admit, she was the first he’d met who had taken the drop bear threat so seriously.

He pressed his lips together to suppress laughter as the image of her tumbling across the ground replayed in his mind.

She drew in a shuddering breath, and he clenched his arms at his side to stop himself from giving her a hug. He was a heel for finding it funny. Obviously, it had scared the living daylights out of her. Paige was in a different country—one that did have some dangerous wildlife. How was she supposed to suspect Emily was pulling her leg?

“Look . . .” He stretched out a hand, which landed on her shoulder with all the finesses of a teenage boy taking a girl to their first dance. “You weren’t—”

He stopped talking as she bent almost double with the force of her shoulders shaking.

He couldn’t take it anymore. Dropping to his knees beside her, he peered up. The growing darkness made it almost impossible to see her face. “Look, I’m sorry, I know Emily didn’t mean to upset you.”

“Oh, my gosh.” She swiped both hands across her cheeks. “I must have looked ridiculous.”

“You’re . . . laughing?”

She pulled herself upright. “Of course I’m laughing! How are you not?”

He stood. His smile came more from relief than anything else. “Well, you know, I thought you might be upset. You were pretty mad.”

“Because I’ve spent months craning my neck at weird angles looking for nasty little bears that don’t even exist.” The nearest lamp cast a glow over her upturned face, giving her a halo and revealing a wide grin.

His breath stalled. When had everything about her stopped being annoying and become beguiling? He met plenty of pretty girls, including ones with cute accents like hers. What made her different from them? But there was something about her that captured him and refused to let go.

She ran a hand through her hair. “Ow!” She pulled a twig out.

“Hold on. There’s a few more.” He untangled one from her ponytail, then another.

“Thanks.” Her whispered words caused him to still, and she caught his gaze. She has a boyfriend. She has a boyfriend. Seriously Tyler, she has a boyfriend.

“No worries.” He tried to tell his feet to step back but they stayed. “Hold on, just a couple more.”

His fingers betrayed him as they took their sweet time brushing across her hair to find a couple more leaves, their eyes locked the entire time.

It was Paige who broke the spell, pulling her gaze away to turn and point. “That’s my car just in the second row. Thanks for walking me.”

“No worries.” Hadn’t he just said that?

She took a few steps away, then turned around and paused for a second.

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