Boots On the Ground: Homefront, book 1
“Laurel sat back with a grin, waiting for the laugh she could count on that story to produce. But Grady only cracked a polite, distant smile, the same one he’d given her all evening.
Her heart sank. When he arrived on her doorstep with freshly shaven cheeks and gleaming boots, he looked so good her knees weakened, but it was nothing compared to the lump that formed in her throat when she climbed into his truck to find a spotlessly clean cab.
“Am I making things up, or is this truck a lot... quieter than when I rode in it last week?” she’d asked on the way downtown.
“I did a little work on the muffler this afternoon.”
The image of him easing out from under the truck with an oil-streaked T-shirt and grease-blackened fingers sent her pulse into a frenzy, but the licking flames of her desire were quickly fanned by his detached manner and painfully obvious discomfort. Gone was the confident, wisecracking charmer who’d come to her aid in the bar, replaced by someone hesitant, uncertain and palpably tense.MoreLess
Her heart sank. When he arrived on her doorstep with freshly shaven cheeks and gleaming boots, he looked so good her knees weakened, but it was nothing compared to the lump that formed in her throat when she climbed into his truck to find a spotlessly clean cab.
“Am I making things up, or is this truck a lot... quieter than when I rode in it last week?” she’d asked on the way downtown.
“I did a little work on the muffler this afternoon.”
The image of him easing out from under the truck with an oil-streaked T-shirt and grease-blackened fingers sent her pulse into a frenzy, but the licking flames of her desire were quickly fanned by his detached manner and painfully obvious discomfort. Gone was the confident, wisecracking charmer who’d come to her aid in the bar, replaced by someone hesitant, uncertain and palpably tense.MoreLess
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