Bride on Loan by Leigh Michaels

Author:Leigh Michaels
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2013-12-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

AS SABRINA came into the living room on Saturday morning, she was mentally rehearsing all the arguments why Caleb would be better off if he stayed at home to rest rather than coming with her for Cassie’s bridal shower.

Even as she marshaled her facts, however, she was hoping that he’d have dozed off so she could escape quietly instead—because forty-eight hours in Caleb Tanner’s company had left Sabrina with the uncomfortable feeling that she was more likely to win a Nobel prize in chemistry than to change his mind, no matter how convincing her arguments.

She tiptoed into the room, but Caleb heard her and looked up with a grin. “Just the person I’ve been waiting for,” he said. “Since I can’t reach my foot, I need Princess Charming to help me get into my glass slipper.”

Sabrina eyed the white running shoe he held up. Not exactly dainty footgear, she thought. Could she really put both her feet into one of Caleb’s shoes, or did it only look that way?

“As a slapstick comedy, it’s got possibilities,” she admitted. She pulled up a stool, and he stretched out his immobilized leg so she could slide the shoe into place. “Next Halloween you could go to the party in a ball gown—white satin, I think, to coordinate with the shoe—”

“You have to be kidding.”

Sabrina looked at him thoughtfully for a long moment. “Oh, I see. I didn’t know, of course, that you had a phobia about white satin altogether. I thought it was just the idea of a woman wearing white satin that made you run the other direction.”

Caleb shook his head. “If I go to the party—if, in fact, there’s a Halloween party at all—I won’t be wearing satin. I’ll just dress up in a full-body cast at the outset so I’ll be prepared.”

“For me, you mean.” Sabrina kept her voice level. “Who says I’m going to be there at all? And what are you saying, if there’s a party? By then, with your revolving-door life-style, you could even be back on good terms with Angelique.” She pulled his shoelaces as tight as she could.

“Could be,” he said cheerfully. “If you wouldn’t mind loosening that knot a little, Sabrina—just enough to restore the blood flow to my toes…”

“Heaven forbid it should come untied,” Sabrina said. “If you were to trip over a dangling shoelace and crack up your other knee—”

“How sweet of you to be so concerned about me.”

She went straight on. “I’d never hear the end of it. I’d probably find myself waiting on you well into the next decade.”

He looked intrigued by the possibility, but he didn’t pursue it. “Even loose, these will be better than the loafers I was wearing yesterday. I’m hoping I can keep my balance a little more easily and maybe even put a bit of weight on my leg.”

There went excuse number one, Sabrina thought—that some of the floors in her condo were covered with ceramic tile and thus were too slick to be safe for a man on crutches.

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