Too Stubborn To Marry by Cathie Linz

Author:Cathie Linz [Cathie Linz]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781459274525
Publisher: Harlequin

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COURTNEY HOPED no one could tell that her knees were knocking. When Ryan had rushed out the door after the bank robber, he’d taken ten years off her life. But she couldn’t let that show. She had to be cool, be sensible.

“It’s a good thing you were here,” Courtney told Ryan, trying to hide her concern behind a facade of calm as Fell’s full complement of law enforcement officials—all five of them—were now swarming the bank.

Francis joined Courtney and Ryan a moment later, having just finished calming Mrs. Albergast, who was demanding reparations for her cracked piggy bank.

“You run awfully fast for a bank inspector,” Francis noted with an admiring look at Ryan.

“I work out,” he modestly replied.

“I can tell.” Was Francis actually simpering? Courtney blinked in disbelief. Was Francis trying to flirt with Ryan?

All of a sudden, the other woman looked years younger. Now that Courtney thought about it, she was only a few years older than Ryan and herself. It was her attitude that had always made her seem so much older.

And Ryan, drat his hide, was flirting back with her. While not simpering, he was displaying the masculine equivalent. Courtney recognized the signs. Flashes of his lopsided grin. That glint in his hazel eyes, lighting them from within. A very tempting package and one that poor Francis would be helpless to resist

Courtney ought to know. She’d been there herself.

And she was not feeling jealous. No, no she wasn’t She was merely concerned for Francis. After all, women needed to stand together. It was their feminine duty to place warning labels on men so that the next woman in the guy’s life could see what was wrong with them, label them Sold as Is and list the damage—which in Ryan’s case would be an inability to commit to a relationship. He valued his work more than his relationships. Oh, she could write a book about Ryan’s flaws.

The problem was, she could write a multivolume epic on his good points as well.

Her reminiscences were getting her nowhere. “I hate to interrupt,” she said, “but the police have indicated that they want to speak to each of us individually. Francis, you should go first since you have seniority.”

As soon as the other woman was gone, Courtney directed her attention to Ryan. Only now was it truly sinking in how much at risk he’d been by chasing after a bank robber like that She knew Ryan had a gun. But chances were that the robber had been armed as well.

She shuddered to think what might have happened had the masked thief not had trouble with the door. Her only way of venting her feelings, which threatened to overwhelm her, was to sock Ryan’s upper arm.

“Ouch!” He shot her a look of exaggerated outrage that moved her not at all, except to notice how cute he looked.

“That robber would have hurt you far worse,” she said. “Do you have any idea how much danger you put yourself in by chasing him like that?”

“It’s my job,” Ryan stated simply.

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