Harlequin Special Edition March 2021--Box Set 1 of 2 by Michelle Major

Author:Michelle Major
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2021-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

Trey usually kept a set of clean clothes in a locker at the clinic just in case he might need a change. But a few weeks ago, he’d used the clothes and hadn’t bothered to replace them.

Now, as he walked onto Nicole’s porch, he looked ruefully down at his chambray shirt and blue jeans. Both were covered with sweat, dust and dark patches where cow manure had splattered and dried. Maybe she wouldn’t notice the stains too much, he thought, but the smell might knock her for a loop.

He was in the process of lifting the small brass knocker on the door when it swung open and the precious sight of Nicole’s smiling face made him forget all about his disheveled appearance and the fact that he smelled like a bull pen.

“Hi, Trey!” She pushed the door wider and gestured for him to enter. “Welcome to my house.”

Stepping past her, he found himself standing in a small foyer furnished with a brass hall tree and a potted cactus with a pair of red blooms in front of a single long window. But his attention was hardly on his surroundings. Not when she looked like a sweet dream in a blue checked sundress and her hair wound in a loose knot atop her head.

All he wanted to do was pull her into his arms and kiss her senseless. Instead, he stood patiently to one side while she dealt with the door. But when he heard the lock click, the reality that they were entirely alone sent a spurt of panic through him. How was he going to keep his hands to himself and his mind on something other than making love to her?

She didn’t give him time to come up with a strategy as she quickly looped her arm through his and urged him out of the foyer.

“Other than Roslyn, you’re the first guest I’ve had since I moved in,” she said as they strolled into a rectangular-shaped living room. “Actually, one of my neighbors came as far as the porch to say hello. I guess I could count him.”

“Him?”

She smiled coyly up at him. “Mr. Bains. He’s eighty and a widower. He retired here in Wickenburg so he could play golf year-round. Sometimes I see him leaving with his clubs as I’m leaving for work.”

Trey chuckled. “Now he’s the kind of man Granny needs. Elderly and safe.”

She gave his arm a playful pinch. “You leave your grandmother alone. She wants passion—not snoring.”

Yeah, Harley was probably capable of giving Virgie plenty of that, Trey thought crossly.

You need to wake up, Trey. You have a problem with Harley because you don’t have the backbone to be like him. Because you don’t have the guts to go after the woman you want. Because you turn into a trembling coward when you think about marriage.

Fighting the taunting voice inside his head, he asked, “How do you know what Granny wants? You’ve never met her.”

Her laugh was a little wicked. “From what you’ve said about her, she’s a woman who enjoys life.

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