The Texan's Twins by Pamela Britton

Author:Pamela Britton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2014-12-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

“I’m not going to say a word.”

Jet lifted his hands in a praise of the Lord.

“I mean, it’s not like we haven’t discussed your involvement with our new engineer before. You know my feelings on the matter.”

His sister could be a real pain in the rear sometimes, Jet thought, propping his feet up on the dash of her company Mercedes. “If you’d seen her at the office you’d have offered to drive her there, too.”

“Get your feet down.” She slapped his legs. They dropped to the floor.

“Hey.”

“I swear, Jet, sometimes you act six years old.”

“It’s a company car.”

“Yes, and when we ferry around big wigs, the last thing I want them to see are scuff marks on the dash.”

“You’re just angry because you had to pick me up.”

“There’s that, too.” She glanced at him as she pulled out of Jasmine’s apartment complex. “Some of us actually work for a living.”

“Like I don’t.”

“Not today, you didn’t.”

“Come on. I’ve been pulling my weight. We’re digging the footings for the rig this week.”

“You should have been digging them last week.”

He shook his head. “Man, you really are a slave driver.”

“No, no, no.” She shook her own head, only more emphatically. “I am an employee of Baron Energies.”

He glanced over at her, his eyes sliding past her profile and catching on the neighboring apartment buildings, and beyond that, the Dallas skyline. “Like I’m not?”

She didn’t answer immediately, but that was okay. She was driving and, in his opinion, his sister had never been very good at talking and driving at the same time.

“We’re under a microscope, you and I. If it’s not Dad looking over our shoulders, it’s a member of the board of directors, and I have to be honest, if the board catches wind of your little friendship with our new engineer, I don’t think they’d be happy. They’re already up in arms about the whole AB Windpower thing.”

What was this? “What AB Windpower thing?”

Lizzie shrugged. “It’s nothing.”

“Clearly it’s something if you’re bringing it up now.”

She shook in her head.

“Something I should be worried about?”

“No,” she said firmly. “Just a little stock activity that we’ve yet to get to the bottom of. It’s no big deal. It’s not like a corporate takeover or anything, it’s just...bothersome.”

“Sounds like you have more to worry about than me.”

“You’re just the icing on the cake. I live in fear of the next lawsuit.”

“Jasmine would never do something like that.”

“So you’ve indicated, but do you really know her well enough to judge that?”

Yes, he did, but he didn’t see the point in arguing and so he said nothing at all, at least not until he glanced at his sister again and saw her rubbing her belly. She’d be giving birth soon.

“How would you feel if your child was ill?”

She glanced at him sharply.

“If there was nobody to hold your hand while you went through it all?” He felt his own stomach flip, something from the edges coalescing into warmth and making him feel...different inside. “If you didn’t have Chris standing by your side.

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