Taming the Texas Playboy by Crystal Green

Author:Crystal Green
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Silhouette
Published: 2011-10-07T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

Jess led Ally into the house, down the long hall and into the first guest bedroom they came to.

She closed the door behind them. “You could have knocked me over with a feather. What is he doing here?”

Ally was pretty sure that saying she’d been asking herself the same thing wouldn’t go over too well.

“He’s fixing the garbage disposal,” she said honestly, wishing she could just leave it at that.

Jeremiah was probably even now following Mrs. McCarter into the garage, where Ally kept her supply of tools.

“The garbage disposal,” Jess repeated, planting her hands on her skirted hips. “Is that all you’ve got to say when you have the biggest scoundrel in all of Texas here at your house?”

Ally lifted her hands, shrugging.

Naturally, that wasn’t enough for Jess. “Ally, I saw all those roses he planted. And Mrs. McCarter told me about how Jeremiah Barron has been buzzing around you like a bee with a stinger ready to—”

“Jess, it’s not that way.”

“Then tell me, what way is it?”

What could she say?

He kissed me, and I can’t stop thinking about it. Or, You should see him when he’s not at parties or around the regular crowds. He’s different. He’s…

Well, she didn’t know for certain what he was. But, more and more, she wanted to find out, in spite of every logical bone in her body.

Ally sat on the king-size bed, holding on to the brass bedpost. “All right, here’s the truth. I’m not sure what’s going on, Jess. But I’ve started to like having him around.”

“I hate to say this, but the man makes his way through life manipulating people, and you know that as well as I do because you’ve spent half your life sticking to your guns and seeing right through people like him. Yet here you are, entertaining him, telling me that he’s so very different than what you expected. Don’t you think other women have thought the same darn thing about him, Al?”

Ally wanted to argue, wanted to tell Jess that she’d gotten a more thorough view into Jeremiah. That he was misunderstood by the world at large. But had she just been spellbound by a master and was that the gist of it?

Yet, that notion didn’t make sense. She had been so very good at ferreting out the liars from the rest during her time in high society—why hadn’t some other smooth-talking cad blinded her?

Jess leaned back against the door. “I want to smack myself for telling Jeremiah where you went after the Howards’ charity auction. I thought by letting him know that you’d taken off without saying goodbye to him, he would get the hint and leave you alone. You made it a point to shine him off, but that only seemed to spur him on, not dissuade him.”

“And nobody leaves Jeremiah Barron in the dust,” Ally whispered.

What was the truth and what was a lie when it came to him? Why did she even care?

She rested her head against the bedpost. “He really

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