The Officer and the Secret (Semper Fi #3) by Jeanette Murray

Author:Jeanette Murray
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Romance
ISBN: 1402265468
Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablanca
Published: 2013-01-01T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

Dwayne stood on the front porch, reliving his late teens. Only this time, he was driving his own—newly cleaned out—truck instead of his mom’s twenty-year-old Buick, and he didn’t worry that a well-meaning father would open the door and interrogate him for an hour before they left.

But when Veronica stepped out onto the dimly lit porch, he found himself wanting to know where his date really went, and who the woman standing in front of him was. Because this was not the Veronica he saw last.

Her hair, usually so long and pulled back into a tight braid, was free and drifting down to just below her shoulders. That in itself was unbelievable. But her outfit was another shocker, and in a good way. A cute little tank top with only the thinnest straps over her pale shoulders covered all the right stuff, and would have been almost modest by another woman’s standards. But on her, it was unbelievably sexy. Maybe it was the contrast from such buttoned up shirts with long sleeves to this. Her jeans weren’t skin tight, but they didn’t hide her figure either. And the heels.

He’d be thinking about those heels later tonight. In his dreams. Or maybe nightmares. The difference likely depended on how the date went.

And that was a jackass thing to think. He held out the small bouquet of flowers he’d picked up on impulse on the way over. Truthfully, he would have arrived at her place almost half an hour early if he hadn’t stopped for the buds, looking like a creep who was too anxious for their date. So they served a dual purpose. And he couldn’t even be remotely sorry he’d bought them when her eyes went so soft, almost liquid with pleasure.

“Oh, Dwayne. Thank you.” She did the girly thing and sniffed a little, petting the individual blooms with one delicate finger. He shifted. This was definitely too early to be having the thoughts that raced through his mind as he watched one fingertip trace the soft skin of one closed rose.

“Well, I figured we’d been dancing around this long enough that you deserved the works.”

She smiled at him absently, still looking at the flowers as if they were completely foreign to her. Had nobody ever brought her a handful of blooms before? The simple, almost mindless gesture on his part suddenly seemed much more important.

“I’ll just slip back in and put these in—”

The door slid open and a hand darted out to carefully snatch the blooms. “Got ’em. Have fun!” And the door snapped shut again.

Dwayne stared at the peephole. “Was that Madison?”

“Yes, it was.” More loudly, Veronica said, “And she can stop spying on me anytime now. Go do something else.”

“Love you too!” was the cheerful reply through the door, just before the dead bolt slid home with an obvious snick.

Veronica stared up at him a moment, almost horrified. Then she jerked, as if she’d hiccupped. After another, then a third, he realized she was trying to hold back laughter, and he couldn’t stop the chuckle himself.

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