The Best Man in Texas by Kelsey Roberts

Author:Kelsey Roberts
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2012-10-14T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TEN

“OH, MY GOD!”

“No, only Justin,” he responded with a very sexy, crooked grin.

“You scared me into the next millennium!” she yelped.

“Sorry. The door wasn’t bolted. You should be thinking about safety.”

I definitely wasn’t thinking about safety. He looked utterly manly standing there in his jeans and beige cotton shirt, his tie askew. His thick hair was ruffled, probably because of his habit of running his fingers through it. There were faint lines at the corners of his eyes due to fatigue, and her first instinct was to go over and put her hand on his cheek.

Okay, it probably wasn’t instinct. More like the residual longings courtesy of her vivid fantasy. She felt her face warm with color. Her upbringing in a Catholic orphanage was at serious odds with her recent guilty pleasure.

“Are you okay?”

“Couldn’t be better,” she said, forcing a smile. “Julie came by, we had dinner.”

It took him only two strides to reach the table. He lifted the empty wine bottle and cocked his head at her. “Obviously dinner wasn’t all you two had.”

“Don’t worry, we didn’t have any boys over and we only made three crank phone calls.”

“Cute, Molly. Phone calls are one of the reasons I stopped by.”

“I haven’t touched the phone,” she swore. “I don’t need to, I don’t have anyone to call.”

“Trevor Pope?”

It took her a minute to remember that he was Molly’s divorce lawyer. “Right. Sorry. I forgot.”

There was an awkward silence, made worse by the fact that Justin’s eyes never left hers. There was an unspoken challenge in his look. And something else. Something akin to disappointment.

“Is there some reason you’re dragging your heels about getting a divorce?”

“Heel,” she corrected with a sly grin. “Currently I have only one heel at my disposal.”

His expression grew serious as he lowered his large body into a chair, then motioned for her to do the same. He rubbed his face with his hands, then used those intense eyes like a weapon. “I debated a long time whether to come over here or not.”

“Why?”

“Because this is complicated.”

“This being...?”

“You. You’re complicated.”

Sara let out a breath. “I know this has been an imposition on you. If you’ll loan me a little money, I can be on the next bus out of here.”

He half snorted, half laughed. “With all the work you’ve put in computerizing my clinic, I should have been paying you a salary from the start.”

“You gave me room and board. By the way, board is an apt description for those nasty frozen meals you stocked in the freezer.”

He grudgingly smiled. “How is it that you manage to find humor in everything?”

“You know what they say, laugh so you don’t cry.”

“That remark is illustrative of my point.” He drew in a deep breath and let it out slowly. “I’ve done a little research into amnesia.”

“If you’re going to do a paper on me for one of those boring medical journals you leave lying around the clinic, would you mind waiting until Jeb Parker is in jail?”

“I’d prefer to see Jeb Parker in hell.

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