The Secret Millionaire by Ryanne Corey

Author:Ryanne Corey
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Silhouette
Published: 2002-07-28T16:00:00+00:00

Six

You could tell a lot about a man at the produce section in the market.

Zack seemed to enjoy the experience of shopping for food as he enjoyed everything else he did in his life. Little or big, he took everyday, mundane occurrences and made them into original, enjoyable experiences.

“You’re not supposed to juggle apples in the store,” Anna told him firmly.

“You should take a risk now and then. It’s very exhilarating.”

“There are people staring at—”

“I don’t see them,” Zack said. “And I certainly don’t let them distract me from entertaining myself. Now I’m going to teach you how to juggle.”

Anna ended up buying thirteen very bruised apples in the wake of her juggling lesson. The rest of their purchases were heavy on calories, cholesterol and preservatives and light on nutrition. They also bought a couple of frozen pizzas at Zack’s request. Cops loved pizza, he told Anna. That, and a whole lot of coffee. They had a reputation for eating only donuts, but although donuts had their revered place in a cop’s life, a little variety was necessary.

Anna tried to reconcile the Zack she knew with the Zack who dealt with the darker side of humanity each and every day. She’d had a taste of that as a child, enough to give her some idea of what he faced in the course of his work. He’d seen the worst of people in the worst of circumstances, yet nothing seemed to have dulled his appetite for life with all its infinite adventures. She watched him as they strolled out to the parking lot, his black hair beating softly in the wind, powerful shoulders stretching the soft fabric of his pale-blue shirt, narrow hips rolling with a lazy, catlike grace. The sun caught the smoothness of his skin and the hard curve of his jaw, polishing his dark California tan. And his smile, that teasing, “anything goes” smile was perpetually rearranging the pattern of Anna’s heartbeat. Even carrying two bags of groceries, the man did not look domestic. Rather, he looked like something out of a wonderful dream she might have had, a fantasy too bright, too charming, too perfect to exist amongst the ordinary realities of life.

He looked like a hero. And for the moment, her hero.

The stronger her attraction to him, the more she reminded herself to keep an eye on her heart. There was a huge gap between Anna Smith and Zack Daniels. She was a woman who couldn’t wait to go home at night. He was a man who couldn’t bear to tear himself away from work. She adored her security, he craved a challenge. The very things Anna had escaped from so long ago Zack willingly dealt with day after day. For the moment he could visit her world, but she knew without a doubt he could never thrive in it.

It was a good thing for her to remember.

“We could have done this in my car,” Zack told her, setting the groceries in the back of the Jeep.

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