Harlequin Special Edition Apr 2019, Box Set 2 of 2 by Marie Ferrarella

Author:Marie Ferrarella
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2019-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

Josh was at the house for his tutoring session. The two of them were sitting at the kitchen table, and she was keeping him company while he took a mock quiz in preparation for his last exam on the Shakespeare play Romeo and Juliet. Leo was out doing whatever it was he did all day. Business stuff that kept him busy until dinnertime. She’d thought he worked a lot in his home office, but not since she moved in here. Was he avoiding her? It was a riddle for another time, and she wouldn’t let the answer matter one way or the other.

Tess had talked to Josh’s teacher and looked through previous tests to come up with study points for him to work on. While the kid agonized over literature, she brooded over Leo Wallace. It had been a week since his shocking revelation about his past. Seven days and nights spent under his roof while she looked at him in a completely different way.

He was a man who deeply loved a little boy he’d thought was his. Now he was under court order not to see this child and she couldn’t imagine going through something like that. The poor man was entitled to a night of trying to forget.

After that everything had gone back to normal—whatever that was. She was still quarantined from the bar. Workmen were sanding walls and putting in new baseboards, getting ready for paint. That meant sawdust and fumes in the air. When the painters did their thing and it dried, she was going home. Oddly enough she wasn’t all that anxious to leave. She was enjoying spending evenings with him—cooking, cleaning up the kitchen, watching TV (he was teaching her the basics of hockey) and just talking.

Clearly she’d been lonely, maybe even before her grandfather had died. Feeling lonely for someone her age to spend time with. Oh, who was she kidding? She had friends her own age—girlfriends. She hadn’t spent time with a man in forever. That’s all this feeling was. Friendship. With a man, a very good-looking one, who happened to be the father of her baby. The guy whom she hadn’t liked very much and now found out she had been wrong about.

“This is stupid.” Josh gave her a long-suffering and pitiful look.

She found out in their very first session that this was a recurring theme. “What’s stupid?”

“Why do I need to know about Shakespeare? He’s dead. For a long time now.”

“I know. He was actually dead when I was in school. Back in prehistoric days,” she said wryly. “When we wrote our papers with a hammer and chisel, on a rock.”

He gave her an eye roll. “You’re not that old.”

“But by definition not that old means I am in fact old, though. Isn’t that what you’re saying?”

“Yeah.” But he couldn’t hide a grin.

“Romeo and Juliet is a classic. A tearjerker. The tragedy of star-crossed lovers.”

“Because they were stupid,” Josh said. “I don’t get it. Why would a guy

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