Wyoming Tough by Diana Palmer

Author:Diana Palmer
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: HQN
Published: 2011-11-06T10:00:00+00:00

HE TOLD GELLY, WITHOUT meaning to, about Morie’s phone call to the Texas judge.

“Well, that’s not surprising,” she commented on the way to the movie.

“Why not?” he shot at her.

“They were all hugged up together when I went out to tell her to get back to work and stop disturbing your guests,” she replied, lying through her teeth. She smiled secretively when she saw his expression. “He was very rude to me. He didn’t like it that I interrupted them.”

“She said she was giving him a canapé recipe,” he scoffed.

She laughed out loud. “Oh, come on!” She glanced at him with lowered eyelids. “And you actually believed her?”

He didn’t like feeling foolish. “I suppose so. At first.”

“I’m sure there’s something going on there,” she replied easily. “They obviously knew each other all along. And he’s a judge.” She glanced at him again. “What if she’s trying to set you up for a lawsuit and he’s helping her? Some judges are dishonest, you know.”

That was what he’d thought himself. He didn’t want to agree with her.

“She looks to me the sort who’d look for an easy way,” she added. “She’s so poor, she’d probably do anything to get out of debt, to have nice clothes that were currently in fashion, to be seen at the best places, to travel first-class around the world.” She was daydreaming, not about her rival’s wishes, but her own. Her face set in hard lines. “She’s probably sick of having to do things she hates just to get ahead in life, to have the things she deserves and can’t get any other way.”

He gave her an astonished look.

She noted it, and cleared her throat. “I mean, that sort of woman obviously is hoping to make some rich man fall for her, and she’ll do whatever it takes. You’re rich. Of course she wants you. It’s obvious.”

“It is?”

“She stares at you all the time,” she muttered. “Like a kid looking at the counter in an ice-cream shop.”

“She does?” His heart jumped. He had to force himself not to react. “I hadn’t noticed,” he added in a droll tone.

“It’s disgusting the way she falls all over herself to please you. Let me tell you, she’s not like that around me,” she said grimly. “She’s all claws and teeth. She hates me. The way she talks to me…you should say something to her about it,” she added firmly. “It’s not right, to have a hired person speak that way to someone of my class.”

Of her class. Her father was a retired textile worker, he’d found that out quite accidentally in conversation with a neighbor. Her late mother had been a bank clerk, an honorable profession but not something that gave her carte blanche to high society. Gelly had aspirations. She wanted money. He felt hunted, all of a sudden. She’d been sweet and clinging and flattering at first. Now she was becoming aggressive and demanding, pushing him toward her friends who wanted cheap land and jobs and other things. It was vaguely annoying.

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