A Fortune's Texas Reunion by Allison Leigh

Author:Allison Leigh
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2019-03-13T18:19:36+00:00

Chapter Eight

Later.

Pax pulled himself out of the depths of Georgia’s blue eyes. He brushed the tousled bangs away from her forehead. They’d dried, but the rest of her hair was still damp and it swirled and curled around her long neck. Her bare shoulders.

He looked at the bruise on her forehead. “You can’t avoid it forever.” It was as much a reminder to himself as for her. “We need to tell everyone the truth about your accident.”

“I won’t avoid it forever. Just...for a while.” Her fingers fluttered against his chest, her touch there, then gone just as quickly. “I’ll even tell my father about it. Please?”

He was weakening, and she knew it.

“I haven’t been fishing in a long time,” she said, “but—”

“You fish?”

The corners of her lips curved. Her dimple appeared. “Don’t sound so aghast. Yes, I’ve fished a time or two.”

“For fish?”

She let out a breathless chuckle. “What do you expect me to say? For men?”

“Frankly? Yes.”

“I don’t usually have to cast a line for men, darling.”

“I’ll bet you don’t.”

Her smile widened. “I’m going to choose to take that as a compliment, whether you meant it as one or not. But as it happens, I’m more than a little choosy. Most get tossed back before getting close to the net.”

“Heartening,” he said dryly. It was either take the humor route or kiss her.

For the moment, humor was safer.

“All right, then.” He lifted her right off her feet and set her up on the truck seat. “Fasten your seat belt. It’s a bumpy ride out to the lake. And if you expect me to bait your hook, you’re in for disappointment.”

Her smile was so brilliant it was almost enough to eclipse his misgivings that he was heading down a road he shouldn’t be traveling.

“Do I need a fishing license? Or does the sheriff get special privileges?”

“He does not.” He shook his head. “But as it happens, we don’t need a license where we’re going.”

“And where’s that?”

“Martell Lake. It’s on property my grandparents owned. My mom’s folks.”

“Your family has its own lake?”

“They did. When they died, the land was sold to pay debts, but it still carried the stipulation that their descendants would always be able to fish the lake.” He chose not to mention that the section on which she and her relatives were staying had also been part of that land. Land that he’d promised his dad he’d finish paying off so the deed would finally be Cara’s, free and clear. It had been his dad’s final admission to Pax before he’d died. That he felt he’d failed his wife on that one thing.

And Pax, in turn, had failed to finish his father’s work.

The bank still owned more of the land than the Prices’ did.

“What did your grandparents do?” Georgia’s light voice nudged into the dark mood descending on him.

“Farmed.”

“And your dad? Did he grow up on a farm like your mom?”

“He was a cop from Dallas. From a long line of them. But he gave up the

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