Under the Christmas Star (Crossroads Collection) by Amanda Tru & Lesley Ann McDaniel & April Hayman & Chautona Havig & Alana Terry

Author:Amanda Tru & Lesley Ann McDaniel & April Hayman & Chautona Havig & Alana Terry [Tru, Amanda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
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ISBN: 9781681901343
Publisher: Olivia Kimbrell Press
Published: 2018-10-09T05:00:00+00:00

Three o’clock came too early that first Monday back. When Wayne pulled up to pick up the van, Ramon stood there, outside the shop, waiting for him. As if that weren’t odd enough, the man rode to Rockland, helped cart flowers, and even helped put them away when they got back. All the while, he talked tango.

“You must find the inner passion—love and hate. They are part of the same emotion. You show both parts—draw her to you. Push her away, but it is not really pushed away. Is just the pretense of it. Do you see?”

Wayne had watched enough tango videos in the past month to know exactly what the man meant. I should be able to manage that part of it just fine.

A corner of his conscience reminded him that he was supposed to be planning to propose to Jennie. The love for another woman shouldn’t be there. Wayne argued back. I’m just concentrating on what was. That’s all.

Despite it all, Wayne had developed a faint hope that this tango thing might not be as difficult as he’d thought. That hope grew stronger and more confident—right up to the moment where Ramon shoved the work table over to one side of the room and showed him how to hold his “form.”

“Your hand goes here…”

A sick churning filled his gut.

“And your other hand holds mine—like this.” Ramon clasped his hand lightly. “Remember, you lead.”

A nudge. Wayne stepped back. Another. He stepped back again Ramon grinned. “Now you. Just lead me in two slow steps. That’s all. Two.”

If vomiting would have gotten him out of it, Wayne would have happily obliged. Instead, he nudged—a gentle shove, really—Ramon backward. Ramon nodded. “Gentle. Just a push—like riding a horse. You don’t dig your knee into the horse’s side. You just give a hint, right?”

“Never rode a horse,” Wayne admitted.

Once they’d made a few turns with two soft nudges, and a dozen corrections to form, Ramon said they could begin. He could only hope he didn’t sound like the whiny child he thought he did as he said, “I thought we did. What was that?”

“Preparation?”

Music began. “Shoulders erect. You hold yourself just a bit aloof at all times—even when you are close. Like this.”

If Wayne could have melted into a puddle and poured himself down the drain in the middle of his floor, he would have. “Look, I gotta admit. I’m not comfortable being this close to a man.”

“Right now, I am not the man. I am the woman—the one you love and hate.” He glowered at Wayne. “Dance. Slow, slow, quick, quick, slow…”

Not once since Lena had thrown him over had Wayne ached for her arrival more. Forget that, he mused. I’ve never wished she was here more. Never.

After a passable circuit around the workroom, Ramon stood back and stared.

Maybe he’ll decide I’m hopeless.

“You are not thinking of love and hate. You are thinking of steps. You cannot do that. Think!”

Music began again. “Jealousy,” of course. What else?

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