First Comes Baby...: the Loner's Guarded Heart
“‘Ashamed of myself?’ What the...? He’d made a sterling effort to play the sociable companion to Josie over the afternoon. What was more, he thought he’d succeeded.
Not that it’d been an effort. No effort at all. It had earned him more than one speculative glance from more than one local, though. Not that he cared. Their gossip couldn’t touch him and Josie would be gone in three weeks, so it couldn’t hurt her either.
Three weeks. And don’t you forget it, he warned himself. He eased his l...ong legs beneath the table to sit opposite her when he had a feeling what he should be doing was getting to his feet and running in the opposite direction.
Fast.
He couldn’t. When Josie had made her remarkable declaration about what she really wanted from her holiday—her eyes hungry on the crowd, those peculiarly restful hands of hers folded against her knees and a tendril of weeping willow playing across her shoulder and catching in her hair—he’d gained a sudden insight into all she’d given up when she’d taken on the role of carer to her father.MoreLess
Not that it’d been an effort. No effort at all. It had earned him more than one speculative glance from more than one local, though. Not that he cared. Their gossip couldn’t touch him and Josie would be gone in three weeks, so it couldn’t hurt her either.
Three weeks. And don’t you forget it, he warned himself. He eased his l...ong legs beneath the table to sit opposite her when he had a feeling what he should be doing was getting to his feet and running in the opposite direction.
Fast.
He couldn’t. When Josie had made her remarkable declaration about what she really wanted from her holiday—her eyes hungry on the crowd, those peculiarly restful hands of hers folded against her knees and a tendril of weeping willow playing across her shoulder and catching in her hair—he’d gained a sudden insight into all she’d given up when she’d taken on the role of carer to her father.MoreLess
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