The Right Twin by Laura Marie Altom

Author:Laura Marie Altom
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2013-12-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

“Make it quick,” Hale said over the roar of revving engines. “I’ve only got ten minutes before the start of my next race.”

“It’s like this,” Heath said from the window seat in his room. “You know Sadie, right?”

“I don’t know her know her.”

“You get what I mean.”

“Time’s a wastin’, bro. What’s up?”

“I kissed her, man. And I want to do it again, only—”

“You what? Please tell me too many exhaust fumes have me not hearing right. Surely I didn’t just hear you say you kissed the woman whose inn I’m supposed to be reviewing. The very much engaged woman I’m supposed to be reviewing.”

“She’s not getting married. The guy turned out to be a lying bum. Just like Tess—only with cojones.”

“If it’s true that she’s single, I’m happy for you. But seriously, dude, probe a little deeper next week. As for this weekend, she’s off-limits, got it?”

“What do you mean probe deeper? How much deeper does it get than going to the source? She told me to my face she broke it off with the guy.”

“Again, that’s swell, but you made a promise. No fraternizing. Not with Sadie Connelly. This is my career we’re talking about. If anyone ever found out we switched, that’d be a hard enough bullet for me to take. But if it also came out that not only did I not do my own review but that the guy portraying me slept with my reviewee?” He made a choking sound. “It’d be lights-out for my day job.”

“But, Hale,” Heath complained, standing up to pace the highly polished maple floor. “I seriously like this woman. If I told her the truth, I’m sure she’d…”

“You so much as hint at the truth with her,” Hale warned, “and we’re not brothers.”

“YOU LOOK BEAT,” SARAH said when Heath took a stool at the inn’s bar. The rest of the inn’s ambience was light and airy, but in here, in keeping with the old-world pub theme, the setting was suitably dark and atmospheric. Suiting Heath’s mood just fine. A rowdy group of six sat in the far corner, while several couples occupied intimate tables lining the wall. One lone woman had her back to the nearest of three velvet-draped windows. “What’s wrong?”

“Nothing,” he said, forcing a smile while once again lying through his teeth. Sadie had already been hurt so badly. Sure, at the moment they were just friends, but at the rate he’d been lying to her, once he was finally able to come clean, would she even want to talk to him? “Nothing, that is, that one of your dark beers can’t cure.”

“Coming right up,” she said with a wink.

He took a long swig. “After loafing all afternoon, I figured you’d be elbow-deep in dinner prep. What’s up?”

“Hey, I wasn’t loafing,” she protested, swiping at the counter with a damp rag, “but engaging in guest relations.”

“Call it what you want,” he said with a teasing grin, “but if I don’t get a damn good dinner—” and a couple dozen more kisses for dessert “—you’d better believe management’s going to hear about it.

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