Cupid, Texas [1] Love at First Sight by Lori Wilde

Author:Lori Wilde [Wilde, Lori]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Contemporary Romance
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2013-06-01T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

Love makes you feel like nothing else.

—MILLIE GREENWOOD

After making up his mind to tell Natalie who he was and why he was in Cupid, Dade went to the B&B, only to find a teenager attending the front desk. The girl told him that Natalie was out for a couple of hours.

Good. That would give him time to run to the hardware store for a new deadbolt lock and start work on making that door safer. After filling in for the bartender who’d had to run a few errands, he didn’t have to be back at Chantilly’s until six.

Thirty minutes later, he was back and armed with the small tool kit he kept on his motorcycle. He filled Pearl in on what he was going to do.

“Thank heavens,” Pearl said. “Natalie’s a sweet girl and she thinks everyone is as kindhearted and caring and she is. It never occurs to her that someone might want to break in here. Me?” Pearl picked up a marble rolling pin sitting on the kitchen counter. “I sleep with this. Someone wants to harm this family, they’re gonna get a whup knot upside the head.”

“She’s lucky to have you,” he told Pearl.

“I keep telling her that,” Pearl said. “Now go do your thing. I’ve got fresh catfish to skin.”

Feeling properly dismissed, Dade went to the back door entryway, mentally rehearsing how he was going to break the news to Natalie that he was Red’s foster brother and he’d been deceiving her.

He had cocked his cowboy hat back on his head, crouched down, and was busy wrestling with both his conscience and the new lock that was refusing to come out of the plastic package, when the back door creaked open and whacked into him.

The knob caught him hard in the ribs. Dade grunted just as Natalie let out a bloodcurdling scream.

Instant adrenaline rushed through him. What was wrong? He dropped the lock, doubled up his fists, ready to battle to the death with whoever or whatever was threatening her.

Simultaneously, something metal crashed loudly to the tile floor.

He stepped back, yanked the door all the way open, leaving them face-to-face in the entryway.

Natalie, wearing the cutest little green skirt and crisp white blouse, met his eyes. “You!”

“Me,” he confirmed, struggling not to smile.

She seemed pretty pissed off. Anger creased her normally smooth brow and her bottom lip trembled. Yellow goo, white cream, and bananas—and were those vanilla wafers?—had splattered just about everywhere.

Banana pudding.

She was covered in banana pudding and looked like she could give Pearl a run for her money in the cranky department. She was not happy with him.

Dade searched for something to say to defuse the situation, but Natalie was working up a strong head of steam. He thought about charming her. Compliment her on how sexy she looked with her hair piled on top of her head like that. Tell her how much he wanted to pull the pins out and watch it tumble down her shoulders, but that would be like pitching gasoline on a forest fire.

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