The Baby's Bodyguard by Stephanie Newton

Author:Stephanie Newton [Newton, Stephanie]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 978-1-4089-5140-8
Publisher: Harlequin (UK) Limited
Published: 2011-09-07T20:00:00+00:00

“Ethan!” His name was being bellowed.

He stepped out on deck to find his little brother, Marcus, on the pier. At fourteen, Marcus was more legs than anything, something basketball coaches kept trying to take advantage of, but height was not an advantage for Marcus. He ran into everything.

His curly dark hair had been clipped close to his head. He’d grown up so much in the last couple of years, which served only to remind Ethan how much he’d missed in the two years without his little boy.

“Dude! I need to talk to you.” His brother was bouncing back and forth from one foot to the other. Marcus’s T-shirt said The police never think it’s as funny as you do. Ethan muffled a laugh.

“Does Mom know you have that shirt on?” He leaned against the opposite side of the boat, crossing his legs at the ankle. This could be fun. “’Cause I’m pretty sure she wouldn’t find it amusing.”

Marcus let out a long drawn-out sigh, making sure Ethan could hear it, and pulled a hooded sweatshirt from his backpack. He tugged it on over his head and glared at Ethan. “Better, your majesty?”

“Why yes, my loyal subject.” Ethan stepped off the boat onto the dock and started toward shore. “What are you doing here?”

“I have a problem.”

Ethan’s steps faltered as he realized Marcus had specifically come to him with a problem, but he picked it back up. “So you’re here because, why? You want me to run interference with Mom?”

Marcus laughed. “No, for real, Mom’s cool. But she doesn’t know anything about girls. She tried to tell me Dad could give me advice.”

Girls. Ethan took a deep breath. “Well, Dad’s been married a long time. Some would say that would point to him having a fairly good understanding of women.”

His little brother looked at him and scratched his head with one finger. “Maybe I should wait until Tyler’s finished with dinner.”

“No, no—I got this. Give it to me straight up. What’s going on?”

“There’s a dance,” Marcus blurted.

“Oh. And you want to go?” Asking a girl to a school dance had to rank right up there with shooting yourself in the foot. Not that he’d done either.

“Yeah, kinda. There’s this girl I like. We’re talking, you know. But I heard her say she thought she was going to go to the dance with all the other cheerleaders. And that’s not chill, dude. Now if I ask her, she has a good excuse not to go.” Marcus jammed his hands in his pockets and stepped off the end of the dock onto the shore.

“You need to ask her anyway.”

“But—”

“No, hear me out.” Ethan put his hand on Marcus’s arm and Marcus’s mouth slammed shut. “She probably said that because she was afraid she wasn’t going to have a date and she wanted to save face. I bet she wants to go with you.”

They walked toward the pool house. Marcus had misery written all over his face. “What do I say?”

“The best thing would be something like, ‘Hey, would you go to the dance with me?’”

“You’re stupid.

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