I Got You, Babe by Jane Graves

I Got You, Babe by Jane Graves

Author:Jane Graves [Graves, Jane]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Contemporary, Mystery, Sexy Romantic Comedy
ISBN: 9780804119689
Publisher: Ivy Books
Published: 2001-01-01T00:00:00+00:00


Chapter 11

It astonished Renee that she and Sandy talked for over an hour and there wasn’t a single lull in the conversation. Sandy was responsible for most of the chatter, her dark ponytail bouncing with animation as she treated Renee to tales about her and her brothers as they were growing up. As the minutes went by, Renee started to see John in an entirely new light. Up to now she was sure he’d been born a cop and would die a cop with nothing in between, so it fascinated her to hear that he actually had a normal life. And even though Renee was sure she had criminal stamped on her forehead like a tattoo, not once did Sandy say, and by the way, have you robbed any convenience stores lately?

But best of all, Sandy’s chatter was keeping her mind off the fact that if she didn’t go to the bathroom pretty soon, she was going to explode.

Sandy wound down from yet another story and gave Renee a speculative smile. “So tell me. What do you think of my brother?”

I think he’s going to go berserk when he sees me talking to his sister while I’m handcuffed to his bed.

“Well, we haven’t known each other long, but he seems like a nice guy.” Which was at least somewhat true. He hadn’t thrown her in jail. That was pretty nice, wasn’t it?

“Is he someone you’d like to know better?”

“Uh...yeah. Sure.”

“Good. But I gotta tell you that that’s not going to be easy. Like I said, he’s way too wrapped up in his job. He’s got this bad habit of getting right up to the point of actually having a relationship with a woman, and then she complains a little about the hours he works, or that he talks about nothing but his job. He hates that, so then he turns around and does something to piss her off just to get her to leave, or he’ll find fault with petty things she does and break up with her. He once sent a woman packing just because she used his toothbrush. Can you believe that?”

Oh, no. She couldn’t imagine that.

“He’ll pull that nonsense on you, too, if you let him. But if you’ll hold out through all the crap he’s liable to dish out and let him know that he can’t drive you away, he might actually see that a long-term relationship isn’t the heinous thing he’s always made it out to be, and you’ll actually have something together.”

Oh, that sounded like fun. Kind of like crawling on her belly through enemy territory and praying she didn’t hit a land mine. “So it’s as simple as that, huh?”

“Okay, so I made it sound like a descent into hell. But let me tell you something, Alice. He’s worth it. Even he doesn’t know that, but he is. He’s a very good man who’s just far too focused on the wrong things in life. But I promise you that if you hang on to him, you’ll be glad you did.



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