Man with a Message by Muriel Jensen

Author:Muriel Jensen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2002-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

PARKER RUSHED INTO the booth holding two paper trays containing German dogs with sauerkraut and curly fries with ketchup. She stopped just inside the booth to frown at her sister. “What happened?” she demanded. “Your cheeks are purple.”

“Nothing happened,” Mariah replied calmly, taking one of the trays. “But if you’re going to make appointments to give massages, you shouldn’t walk away for fifteen minutes when one is due. Did you bring drinks?”

“I didn’t make any appointments.” Parker turned sideways so that Mariah could see the can of soda protruding from the pocket of her slacks. “What are you talking about?”

Mariah fell into one of the folding chairs, rested the tray in her lap and popped the top on her can of diet cola. She had to do something about that man. “Cam said he had a two-thirty appointment with you. I had to do the massage because he couldn’t wait until you got back. He had a job.”

Parker raised an eyebrow at her gullibility. “And you think I’m the one with no defenses.” She grinned before taking a bite of curly fry. “I walked right past him when I went to find our lunch. He knew I was gone.”

Mariah really wanted to be angry. But all she could remember was the warm, tight muscle under her hands, the sturdy structure of his back and shoulders, the impulse to lean against him and close her eyes that she’d almost succumbed to.

She didn’t know why she had invited him to join their table tonight. Her mind, which had once been very organized and determined, was now muddled and wishy-washy. She hated that.

“He’s joining me and the kids and Letitia and Lavinia tonight at the dinner. Why don’t you and Gary Warren and his kids sit with us?” She felt the need for reinforcements. “I promise not to cramp your style. You can go off together as soon as dinner’s over. I imagine his kids will be staying for the rock band in the gym.”

Parker smiled widely, her expression one of longing. “That’d be great. When things were crazy with Mom and Dad and we were stuck out on the farm, even though I loved the life, I was a young teenager and sure I’d never meet anybody.”

Mariah tried to relate that information to their present conversation and couldn’t quite do it.

Parker put her cold can of soda to her cheek as she stared ahead of her. “And I wanted so much to meet someone. I wanted to get married and have children so that when you got married, I’d already have a house with a big yard and we could all have Sunday dinner together, and our children could play together and have one another for support as they grew up.” She turned to Mariah with a sigh. “Wouldn’t that be just perfect?”

Mariah understood that Parker had no clue she was torturing her. So she simply nodded, finding it easy to buy into that dream. It was what she’d imagined when she’d

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