Travis's Appeal by Marie Ferrarella

Author:Marie Ferrarella [Ferrarella, Marie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Category
ISBN: 0373654405
Publisher: Silhouette
Published: 2009-02-25T00:00:00+00:00

“So, you didn’t tell me,” Shana said as she pulled her seat belt out and slid the metal tongue into the groove. It clicked into place. “What’s this big family gathering all about?”His own seat belt fastened, Travis put his key into the ignition and turned it. The engine came to life. “It’s supposed to be a secret.” Looking over his shoulder, he pulled out of the parking space in one smooth motion. “But by process of elimination, I think Mike’s wife is pregnant.”

She thought for a minute, but was unable to assign Mike a position in the family hierarchy. “Which one is Mike again?”

Travis spared her a grin. He liked that she asked rather than let things float along without clarification. “Mike’s the one who isn’t a triplet.”

She nodded, assimilating the information. It clicked with another piece she’d taken in the other day. “The older one.”

“By a whole year,” Travis put in. He thought of his earlier conversation with Mike. “By the way, we’re supposed to act surprised when they make the announcement.”

“Surprised,” she repeated, underscoring it with a quick nod of her head. “Got it. I can manage that, seeing as how I’m already surprised.”

“By what?”

Easing onto the brake at the red light, he spared her a quick glance. Was it his imagination, or did her perfume fill the inside of his vehicle?

“Your invitation. Most guys don’t bring a girl to meet their entire family on a first date.”

The light turned. The second it did, someone behind him leaned on his horn. A choice word rose to Travis’s lips, but he swallowed it. Instead, he stepped on the gas, sailing across the intersection.

“Is that what this is?” he asked innocently. “A first date?”

Okay, had she missed a signal? Assumed something that wasn’t intended? Embarrassment reared its hoary head, threatening to color everything in shades of red. “Isn’t it?”

“I don’t know. Maybe,” he allowed. “I actually kind of thought of it as being a transferred dinner invitation.”

She almost bought it, but then saw the glimmer of a smile on his lips. He was teasing her. Or maybe having as much trouble admitting their attraction as she was.

“If that was the case, why isn’t my father sitting next to you instead of me?” she asked, then reminded him, “He was the one who tendered the invitation, I didn’t.”

Caught, Travis laughed. It was a date all right. He might as well call a spade a spade. “You ever think of becoming a lawyer?”

She shook her head. “Too much memorization. I’d have never passed the bar.”

“Then you did think about it.”

“For about two minutes,” she conceded. “The things I was drawn to weren’t practical.”

As she said that, she couldn’t help thinking of Kevin. Would Travis fall into that category, too? No, she told herself the next moment. Travis wouldn’t fall into that category because, as cute as he was, she had no intentions of falling for him.

Fun, that was all this was about. Just fun, nothing more. She deserved a little fun in her life.

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