Woodrose Mountain by RaeAnne Thayne

Author:RaeAnne Thayne
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: HQN
Published: 2012-07-29T21:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

IT WAS ONLY A KISS. A simple merging of mouth against mouth, with a jumble of highly compatible pheromones thrown in to make things interesting. More than a week later, Brodie was still trying to convince himself of that—and still trying to talk himself down from trying it again.

Evie had made it abundantly clear she wasn’t interested, despite the tension that seemed to shiver in the air whenever they were in the same room. Her priority was Taryn and she considered this attraction between them merely a distraction.

Under other circumstances, he might have appreciated the irony that Evie Blanchard—of the bleeding heart and the hippie-chick clothes and the zeal for beading—was the one being brisk and businesslike here.

He knew she was right. Beyond that, while they might share an attraction and he was coming to see her in a much more favorable light as he watched her care for his daughter, on the most basic of issues they were highly incompatible. He craved structure and order and calm. Evie was the complete opposite of all those things. She was color and chaos, passion and heat.

And yet. There was a softness about her, a fragile vulnerability, that called to him even though he knew it was, in her words, completely crazy.

He hadn’t been able to stop thinking about her for more than a week. In the middle of a business meeting, he would remember the particular curve of her mouth, that sexy little hitch in her breath, the sweet, wildflower scent of her, and his thoughts would scatter like the aspen leaves that were turning gold now as August faded towards September.

The smartest thing, the only thing, had been to avoid her—and he’d done his best for more than a week. He had mostly stayed away from the house during the time he knew Evie was likely to be there, choosing to move more of his work responsibilities to his office in downtown Hope’s Crossing.

The only time he’d spent more than a brief moment with her had been a week earlier, Wednesday, when Evie had agreed to sit in on another interview for Taryn’s rehab therapist. This candidate had been perfect—fresh out of physical-therapy training, enthusiastic, energetic. Evie had approved of her right away. He wondered if her alacrity was indeed due to Stephanie Kramer’s credentials or if Evie was that anxious to return to her job at the bead store.

Stephanie had been excited to take the job but because of other commitments she couldn’t start until the following week. With obvious reluctance, Evie had agreed to stay on another week, until after Labor Day.

For Taryn’s sake, he was relieved since his daughter’s progress the last ten days had been nothing short of miraculous. She was taking several steps at a time unassisted and her vocabulary and sentence structures—while still a little hesitant—were head and shoulders above where she’d been before she’d come home.

He was deeply grateful for Evie, though her continued presence at his home also meant another week of his keeping as healthy a distance as he could manage.

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