Friendship on Fire
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“It’s the accent, isn’t it? I’ll bet even if he had two heads and warts, women would fall all over him.”
“Are you saying I’m shallow?”
“Don’t be defensive. Tell me why he’s so adorable and irresistible that my dearest friend is in a dither.”
“I don’t even know what that means.”
“A dither. A state of flustered excitement or fear.”
Well, poop. That was Abby’s exact state. “There was something about him, Lara. An intensity. Or maybe an air of danger. I’m not sure I can explain it. He was very masculine.”
Lara’s eyes rounded. She fanned herself with her napkin and took a sip of water. “So what are we going to do to make sure this very dangerously masculine man notices you?”
Abby tried not to smirk. “Not really an issue. He’s already asked me out.”
Her friend with the runway-model body and the ash-blond hair and the sapphire eyes goggled. “Seriously? It was the boobs, wasn’t it? Lord, what I wouldn’t give to have those boobs for twenty-four hours. They’re guy magnets.”
“I don’t think he was even serious,” Abby admitted, voicing her worst fears. “He’s lonely, and by his own admission, he doesn’t know anybody in town.”
“There must have been more to it than that or you wouldn’t be acting so jittery.”
Abby’s cheeks flamed hotter. “He flirted with me almost from the beginning, and then he asked me out. But he also insulted my profession and questioned my motives. I didn’t know what to say.”
“So what did you say?”
“I told him I had to think about it.”
“Ah. That’s good. Make him work for it.”
“Lara! That’s not what I meant. I’m not sure my dating him is ethical. I’ve worked too hard to get where I am in my career...to make sure everyone knows that I’m not like my father.”
“Oh, good grief. You’re not representing him in a court of law. Besides, isn’t Miss Izzy technically your boss’s client?”
“Yes, but—”
Lara interrupted with a triumphant grin. “Problem solved. Now for the important question. Do you have any good undies, and what are you going to wear when you finally put him out of his misery?”
Copyright © 2018 by Janice Maynard
ISBN-13: 9781488092138
Friendship on Fire
Copyright © 2018 by Joss Wood
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