Enamored ; Claim Me, Cowboy by Diana Palmer

Author:Diana Palmer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2018-12-14T13:47:31+00:00

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There was a new temporary secretary at work for the rest of the week, but Apollo didn’t give her a hard time. In fact, he looked haggard and weary and miserable.

“Perhaps you need a vacation, amigo,” Diego said.

“It wouldn’t hurt,” Dutch nodded, propped gracefully against Apollo’s desk with a lighted cigarette in one lean hand.

Apollo glowered at them. “Where would I go?”

Diego studied his fingernails. “You could go to Ferris Street,” he remarked. “I understand the weather there is quite nice.”

Ferris Street was where Joyce’s apartment was, and Apollo glowered furiously at the older man.

“You could park your car there and just relax,” Dutch seconded, pursing his lips. His blond hair looked almost silver in the light. “You could read a book or take along one of those little television sets and watch soap operas with nobody to bother you.”

“Ferris Street is the end of the world,” Apollo said. “You don’t take a vacation sitting in your damned car on a side street in Chicago! What’s the matter with you people?”

“You could entice women to sit in your car with you,” Dutch said. “Ferris Street could be romantic with the right companion. You were a counterterrorist. You know how to appropriate people.”

“This is true,” Diego agreed. “He appropriated us for several missions, at times when we preferred not to go.”

“Right on,” Dutch said. He studied Apollo curiously. “I was like you once. I hated women with a hell of lot more reason than you’ve got. But in the end I discovered that living with a woman is a hell of a lot more interesting than being shot at.”

“I asked her to live with me, for your information, Mr. Social Adviser,” Apollo muttered. “She kicked me in the gut!”

“What about marriage?” Dutch persisted.

“I don’t want to get married,” Apollo said.

“Then it is as well that she resigned,” Diego said easily. “She can find another man to marry and give her children—”

“Shut up, damn you!” Apollo looked shaken. He wiped the sweat off his forehead. “Oh, God, I’ve got to get out of here. You guys have things to do, don’t you? I’m going for a walk!”

He started out the door.

“You might walk along Ferris Street,” Dutch called after him. “I hear flowers are blooming all over the place.”

“You might even see a familiar face,” Diego added with a grin.

Apollo threw them a fiercely angry gesture and slammed the door behind him.

Dutch got off the desk and moved toward the door with Diego. “He’ll come around,” the blond man mused. “I did.”

“We all come to it,” Diego said. He smiled at the younger man. “Bring Dani to supper Saturday. And bring the children. Matthew would enjoy playing with your eldest.”

Dutch eyed him. “Everything’s okay now, I gather?”

Diego sighed. “My friend, if happiness came in grains of sand, I would be living on a vast desert. I have the world.”

“I figured Matthew was yours,” Dutch said unexpectedly. “Melissa didn’t strike me as the philandering kind.”

“As in the old days, you see deeply,” Diego replied.

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