Cowboy Who Came For Christmas (Harlequin Romance) (28 page)
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Authors: Lenora Worth
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And really, her day had been crappy enough, thanks all the same. No need to add on to the pile.
“Look,” she said, stepping toward him, only to have him take a quick step back. And wasn’t that interesting? Not to mention quite encouraging. “I promise not to have anything else to do with my father, and I hope you can promise to keep what happened here today our little secret.”
His gaze flew to hers. “What happened here?”
“With Michael?” Oakes stared at her blankly. “Him coming here. You almost killing him. Any of this ringing a bell?”
He laughed. Not really a ha-ha-I’m-so-amused chuckle. More like a relieved, oh-thank-God-that’s-what-you-meant laugh. “Right. Yeah. I promise.”
He held out his hand—always the lawyer—and she shook it, let her palm linger against his for a moment longer than necessary, just to test this new, amazing reaction to him. She felt a definite spark from the contact.
Yep. Still there and very much real.
The headmaster appeared out of the double glass doors down the walkway and called Daphne’s name. She’d have to think about that spark and her reaction later. For now, she had a speech to deliver and a diploma to get.
“I’d better go,” she said. “Thanks for everything. Especially the necklace. And for coming today. It means a lot.”
He smiled and her heart fluttered. “I wouldn’t have missed it for the world.”
She kept her own smile easy and light, gave a little finger wave then turned and practically skipped toward the door. Her mother was wrong. Good guys weren’t too good to be true. And they didn’t come any better than Oakes Bartasavich. There’d been a very real, very heated and adult connection between her and Oakes. A shared moment where everything between them had changed.
A moment where she’d fallen in love with him.
Copyright © 2015 by Beth Burgoon
ISBN-13: 9781460385951
Cowboy Who Came for Christmas
Copyright © 2015 by Lenora H. Nazworth
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