Business or Pleasure? by Julie Hogan

Author:Julie Hogan
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Silhouette
Published: 2004-11-01T04:00:00+00:00

Seven

Daisy teed up a ball at the Santa Margarita Golf Club’s driving range, set up in front of it, wiggled her spikes into the Astroturf and adjusted her grip. Then she did what she’d done millions of times since she’d picked up her first nine iron when she was eight years old: she swung her club in a perfect arc, smacked that little white ball dead on, heard the satisfying ping that signaled she’d hit the club’s sweet spot and watched the ball fly past one yard marker after another until it finally settled just behind the sign that read two hundred yards.

Not bad for a set of loaner clubs, she thought as she let the three wood slide out of her hand and into the bright red bag she’d picked up at the pro shop a half hour earlier. And thank goodness she’d needed to borrow these clubs, too, because that’s how the golf pro had found her in time to give her a message from Troy. He wasn’t going to be able to meet her like they’d planned, the pro had told her, because he’d gotten a last-minute charter and wouldn’t be back until late afternoon. Before he’d left, the pro had assured her that the tee time was still hers, and since she really needed to blow off some steam leftover from last night, she’d decided to go ahead and play alone.

Daisy smiled grimly as she hefted the bag onto her shoulder and headed back to the pro shop to pick up her golf cart. In a way, it was a relief that Troy hadn’t been able to make it. When she’d accepted the date the other night, she’d thought it would be a positive step in her efforts to move on with her life. But after being in Alec’s arms again last night, she knew that even if she dated every eligible man in North America, it wasn’t going to help her get over him.

The answer was probably time, unfortunately. And some distance would be helpful, too, but it didn’t look as if she was going to get much of that in the near future. The best she could hope for now, she thought as she dropped her bag in the rack outside the pro shop, was to finish this job with her sanity intact.

“You need a caddy today, ma’am?”

Daisy turned around, ready to smile and decline—after all, she’d been carrying a full bag since the fifth grade—but could only stare in mute shock when she saw that Alec had been the one making the offer.

“Hey, Daze,” he said, and his voice was like warm honey pouring over her cold soul.

“What are you doing here, Alec?” she asked, even as her stomach did an unexpected little flip-flop at the sight of him.

“I’ve been thinking,” he said as he reached around her and opened the door to the pro shop. “I really haven’t been holding up my end of that bargain we made when you agreed to come back to work.

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