Do You Hear What I Hear? by Holly Jacobs

Author:Holly Jacobs
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2013-09-01T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

“Mom, he’s here,” Meg signed just before she sped out of the room.

Libby purposely finished folding the last two T-shirts that she’d taken from the dryer. She’d started the load as soon as she woke up and wasn’t in a hurry to finish since there was no doubt in her mind who the he Meg was referring to was. And though Meg might be brimming with excitement at the thought of the day to come, Libby didn’t share her enthusiasm. He could wait a minute.

Actually, Libby had been hoping that he wouldn’t show up, but she should have known he wouldn’t back out of the shopping trip.

Joshua Gardner seemed to enjoy making her life miserable. Hogging parking spaces, showing up at Thanksgiving dinner…kissing her. And most annoying of all, not kissing her.

Her hands stilled mid-fold. If she was honest, there had been a slight disappointment when he hadn’t kissed her last night. She’d never thought of herself as a woman who said no and meant yes, but despite all the no’s she’d said to him, all the times she’d denied it to herself, Libby had enjoyed their kiss the night before Thanksgiving and had felt a small pang of regret it wasn’t repeated last night.

The feel of his body had imprinted itself on hers, and his kiss—She brushed her fingertip across her lips. How had such a small, tender kiss left her so at loose ends?

It had to be a hormonal reaction. It had been so long since Mitch had left, so long since anyone other than Meg had touched her, that her body had experienced a surge of hormones that had taken over momentarily. And now the moment was gone.

Libby was her rational self again—rational enough to know that there would be no more kissing between her and the very kissable Dr. Joshua Gardner. She’d resisted last night with no problem at all. Well, hardly any problem.

The fact that she’d spent a restless night, tossing and turning, had more to do with all the things that had to be accomplished in the next few weeks. The Christmas rush at Snips and Snaps, the Christmas party she’d been conned into planning and the shopping. She had to learn enough about megs and RAMs and modems to deal with Meg’s computer. Those were the thoughts that kept her up last night. It wasn’t thinking about Josh’s kiss.

Her fingers brushed her lips one more time. No, she was totally over Josh Gardner and his very kissable lips.

“Libby?”

She whirled around guiltily, half-folded shirt in her hand and fantasy broken. Ignoring her racing heart, she forced herself to smile. “Josh. You’re here. I’ll, um, well I’ll be ready in a minute. Almost done here.”

“No hurry,” he said. “Meg pointed me in this direction and then sped down the hall to her room.”

“She’s planning to do some of her own shopping today, and I imagine she’s checking that she’s got every cent from her various banks.”

“What is she shopping for?”

“A new video game.” Video games? She was standing talking to Josh about video games.

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