Harlequin Special Edition September 2017 Box Set 2 of 2 by Michelle Major

Author:Michelle Major
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781488029455
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2017-12-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Lucy was putting the cookies in a tin for Emma to take home when the back door opened. She smiled that he was so comfortable to walk in without knocking.

“Just in t—”

Anything she was about to say vanished the second she saw Noah’s face. Cookies forgotten, she stepped forward. She reached out to touch his jaw, but realized he must be hurting. Her hand landed on his shoulder instead.

“What happened?”

Noah smiled. Actually smiled as he shook his head. “It’s nothing. My face got in the way.”

“Daddy, are you okay?”

Emma scrambled off the bar stool and came over to stand between Lucy and Noah.

“I’m fine, sweetheart,” he assured her. “It smells amazing in here. I hope you made something we can take home.”

Emma nodded, but Lucy couldn’t take her eyes off the blue-and-purple swollen jaw. Noah threw her a glance that silently told her he’d talk about it later.

Pulling in a breath, Lucy nodded and went to finish putting bread and cookies in containers for them to take home. Her kitchen was an absolute disaster, but she didn’t care.

Tara and Kate were likely at Gallagher’s dancing but Lucy knew she couldn’t have had more fun if she’d gone with them. It wasn’t like she had ever spent the evening with a toddler, but she’d quickly found that she was having a blast staying in for a change and being silly, tossing flour at each other, cracking eggs, and having shells fall into the cookie batter. Each mishap caused Emma to laugh even louder so Lucy found herself purposely doing things wrong.

Emma spoke of her mother, she spoke of the ranch in Texas, and how she and her daddy always worked together in the evenings when he came home from the police station. She said he’d helped keep bad people off the streets in Texas and he was going to do the same here. She wished he didn’t work at night, but Lucy had explained that because he was new, that was the only shift available.

It must be difficult being a single father and at the mercy of your employment, but Noah hadn’t complained to her or anyone else that she’d noticed. He did his job, cared for his daughter…and managed to melt Lucy’s heart in the process.

Fantastic. Now she was falling for a guy that she couldn’t even bring herself to be intimate with. It had been two years since Evan passed. He would’ve wanted her to move on, and she truly thought she was ready. At least her body had been more than ready, but her mind and heart started battling and she’d shut down.

Lucy set the tins on the island. “Emma, would you like to go in and finish watching that movie I put on earlier?”

Emma looked to her dad. “Is it okay?”

He nodded. “You can go.”

As Emma raced into the living room, Lucy explained, “I hope it was okay I started a movie while everything was baking. She said you watch it at home, so I figured it was safe.

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