Long, Tall Texans Collection, Volume 6: Tom ; Drew ; Jobe by Diana Palmer

Author:Diana Palmer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2018-12-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FOUR

Drew could barely think. He’d been at the hospital until dawn with a small patient who was going to live despite the odds against him from a burst appendix and peritonitis. Now he’d been cruel to Kitty, whose only crime was to look like a ministering angel in white. The sight of her had hurt him, taunted him, reminded him all too blatantly of Eve in a similar dress the evening he’d asked her to marry him. Eve had blond hair, not brunette, but hers had been long and she’d worn it similarly to that beautiful curling mass that Kitty had entered his office displaying.

The thought occurred to him at once that Kitty would be on her way home now in tears, thanks to his unreasonable anger, and probably the first thing she’d do was look for scissors…

It horrified him beyond all rationality to imagine that Kitty would butcher her hair. He got up from his desk, barely able to reason from lack of sleep, and rushed out the door.

“I’ll be back. An emergency,” he murmured to Nurse Turner on his way out.

It was thankfully too early for patients. In fact, he was due at the hospital to make rounds, but this couldn’t wait. He got into his Mercedes and burned rubber getting to Kitty’s apartment house.

He walked right in behind a young woman with a key who’d just entered it.

“You can’t…” she blurted.

“The hell I can’t,” he muttered, going up the steps in twos as he rushed to stop Kitty from what he knew she was going to do.

The pounding on the apartment door was loud and violent. Kitty glared at it from her bedroom, but if she didn’t stop it, the other tenants were going to be furious. Some of them worked nights.

She went to the front door and looked through the keyhole, knowing before she did who was going to be standing there.

“Go away!” she raged.

“No. Open the door.”

He looked as if he planned to spend the day on her doorstep. She thought for a minute and finally decided that it would be easier to lay a skillet across his thick skull if he were inside the apartment, so she opened the door.

He came in and closed the door, breathless from his rushed trip over here, and stared at her. She was wearing a bathrobe instead of the dress. She had a pair of scissors in her right hand, and apparently he’d been in the veritable nick of time. She was flushed. Her eyes were red from crying. Tracks of tears were visible on her cheeks. Even tangled, her hair was glorious.

He reached down and took the scissors out of her hand. “Not to get even with me,” he said quietly. “Not even if I deserve it. It would be a crime to cut it, Kitty. It’s beautiful.”

She glared at him with trembling lips.

He tossed the scissors onto the table and pulled her into his arms with a heavy sigh, wrapping her up against him. Odd how familiar it felt, how comfortable…how exciting.

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.