Waiting for Sparks by Kathy Damp

Author:Kathy Damp
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2015-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINETEEN

A BOLD RAP on his door shocked Sparks awake. He’d been with a brown-haired beauty with deep hazel eyes in his dreams and his smile lingered. For a moment, he lay there. She looked a lot like Emma, this dream girl. They had kayaked to an island and kissed on a deserted beach.

Another heavy rap on the door.

Monday’s bright morning light cracked through the gap in the drapes. Sitting up, he rubbed both hands across his bare chest and yawned, swinging his legs over the side of the bed, stumbling to the door. When he yanked it open, the yawn froze in place.

Tilly’s thirtysomething daughter, clad in what had to be a child’s T-shirt and a grape skintight pair of Wranglers, lounged against the doorway, a wicker basket dangling from her hand. In one fluid move—that seemed impossible in those jeans—she was in the door and offering the basket. A fruity scent wafted—banana muffins.

“Hi, I’m Little Red Riding Hood,” she said. “Wanna be my big bad wolf?” Her eyes, darkly outlined in some shade of purple, roamed back and forth across his bare pecs.

Shirt, where was his shirt? He stumbled backward, and the cuff of his loose, slouchy pajama bottoms caught beneath his foot, prompting a throaty chuckle from Tilly’s daughter. Turning in desperation, he grabbed the first article of clothing his fingers found, only to discover they were a pair of boxers.

“Uh, muffins. Thanks,” he mumbled while his back was turned and he dug through a suitcase on the other bed. His frantic search finally yielded a shirt, and he yanked it over his head.

* * *

TELL SPARKS, EMMA repeated to herself, taking the corner into the motel’s driveway at a dead run. Lynette waved from the office. Telling him wouldn’t solve this new catastrophe, but at least Emma wouldn’t be alone with the news. She ignored the friendly wave of the room cleaner, who had a family resemblance to someone she probably should know, and sailed through the open door of Sparks’s unit before she could think of why it was already open.

The door banged against the wall. Sparks peered past Tilly’s daughter and muttered a groan. On the threshold, her eyes took in his half-off shirt and Tilly’s daughter. Sparks’s blush deepened as a strange expression flitted across his face. Disappointed to see her? Embarrassed? Emma couldn’t bear to look at him. Her gaze shifted to Tilly’s daughter.

The two women eyed each other. And in that weird way that women seemed to have, Emma must have communicated to Tilly’s daughter that an exit was in her best interest.

“We were just talking,” Tilly’s daughter sputtered. “Not doing anything.” She looked regretful.

“I don’t care what he does when he’s not working at the Jamboree.” What had she been thinking, losing her grip on the man moratorium? She was still a fool where men were concerned. Sparks was indeed no different than the others she’d dated.

Sparks pulled down the shirt like he wished it would cover him all the way to his feet.

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