The Man She Married. Muriel Jensen
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Название: The Man She Married
Автор: Muriel Jensen
Издательство: HarperCollins
Жанр: Современные любовные романы
isbn: 9781472025982
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He expected her to find relief in that fib so she could go on believing he was the rat she thought him to be. But she didn’t seem to. There was a brooding quality about her, and she looked just a little lost—an unusual state of affairs for the usually confident and capable Prudence O’Hara Hale.
She tossed her hair, a sign that meant she wanted to change the subject. “She said she’d be here in three days.” She looked around the room as though noticing her surroundings for the first time. Then she patted the sofa. “This must have cost you a fortune.”
He shrugged. “I liked it. And I think it’ll fit into a fishing-lodge atmosphere when I go to Alaska.”
She nodded and got to her feet, walking around the large, mostly empty room. “You were lucky to find such a great place to rent month to month,” she observed.
“I know. It’s good to have friends in the right places. Hank knew about the house and put in a good word for me with the owner.”
She turned away from a perusal of the bare walls to focus suddenly on his shirt. And with a gesture that completely surprised him, she pinched a small amount of fabric at his chest and said drily, “And he provided you with a change of shirt, I see.”
He nodded, leading the way around the bar to the kitchen. “It’s all part of the employment package.”
She looked around, nodding, then walked to the door that led onto a back porch. A fairly large pet door had been cut into the bottom.
“Must have had a Saint Bernard,” she guessed, turning around and walking out again, following a small corridor to the bedroom.
He indicated the empty room with its wide window looking out onto the woods behind the house. “I think Aunt George could be comfortable in here.”
“Employment package?” she asked, his previous reply apparently just catching up with her.
“Yes,” he said, leaning a shoulder in the doorway. “Hank was looking for a way to provide security services as part of his offerings. While I was having breakfast with him and some of the other guys the morning Paris abandoned me in the booth at the Barn, we happened to talk about my experiences in Iraq. Then I was playing with his kids in the lobby of the Yankee Inn and…”
She looked confused and he felt called upon to explain that he’d just gotten the call from his business partner telling him to delay his trip, when the kids walked in from their swimming lessons. “They knew who I was,” he said with a grin. “And Rachel, I think it is, told me you shouldn’t get naked with people you aren’t married to.”
Prue shifted her weight. “Yes, I’ve always thought so, too.”
“Yeah. So have I.” Before she could offer doubts about that, he raised a hand to stop her. “I know. Never mind. Anyway, the kids also knew I was a judo master, so they asked if I could throw them. Hank showed up while we were doing it, and we got into a little hand-to-hand.”
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