Healed Under the Mistletoe by Amalie Berlin

Author:Amalie Berlin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2018-09-12T18:09:10+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

LYONS HAD AVOIDED Belle since the hockey player post-game yesterday, needing the time to think over what he wanted to do about her. Even though he suspected he would, and did, have another gift waiting for him this morning. She was still giving him gifts even though they weren’t really speaking at present. Incomprehensible.

Lyons didn’t like to bring scandal into the department. Or the hospital, frankly, but work was his point of contact for Belle.

Wolfe thought he was being foolish, but Wolfe was blinded by love right now and all roads led to a happy place. Lyons just didn’t know what to think anymore, didn’t trust his gut right now. He could recognize that the closer he came to Christmas, the more his thinking tilted toward the negative, but that didn’t mean he was wrong.

What he did know was wrong was to allow this to continue after the gift that had been waiting for him this morning. Something she’d obviously put a great deal of work into.

He wasn’t much bothered by clothing; he was a very standard kind of bloke. He went for traditional styles in everything. Hired someone to make sure he had what he needed. He took no interest, past being able to discern quality when he saw it.

This morning’s gift had been handmade from quality materials. It was tucked into a little Christmas gift bag, giving no indication that she’d purchased it somewhere, and considering she’d made yesterday’s tablet, he knew she’d made it as well.

The only civilized thing to do was to give her a chance to explain and tell her politely to stop. Or if she denied it, tell her he’d report her to HR if she didn’t stop.

He made it to the cafeteria and it took no time to find her once again at that small table, her back to the room. The woman was never going to learn, and if she was so lax about security at home...

No. Focus.

He cut his way across the cafeteria, pulled out a chair and sat, catching her mid-bite.

She made some noise of alarm, and then chewed fast, dark eyes wide and focused on him as if expecting an attack.

He let her finish before saying anything.

“Lyons.” She coughed lightly, then reached for her water.

“You don’t have to swallow so fast you choke yourself,” he said, and then gestured to the room. “And if you’d sat with your back to the wall there, you’d have seen me coming.”

Last time he’d bring that up.

“I like the secluded feeling of facing the wall over facing the whole cafeteria.”

“It’s some kind of social distancing?”

She shrugged. “I brought my headphones to block out the noise too but thought it would get in the way of eating.”

“Don’t do that,” he muttered, and then shook his head and scooted his chair sideways so he could better see the rest of the large room. He waited for her to finish another drink of her water, but she didn’t go back to her lunch. He’d

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.