Page 19 of Overdue for a Cowboy

“Oh, yeah. It’s good. I’m almost finished.”

“Then we’ll have to talk about it over lunch then pick the next selection for our Secret Society of Book Nerds club. Do you have any suggestions?”

He grinned. “You’re the librarian. You pick.”

She tapped her finger against her lips.

And now he was thinking about her lips.

“How about a mystery? I just heard someone talking about a book they read the other day called,Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone. It’s a murder mystery that’s supposed to be likeKnives Outmeets Agatha Christie.”

He shrugged. “Sounds good.” Yes, better to think about mysteries and murder than what it would be like to kiss her again.

“Okay. I’ll see if we’ve got a couple of copies at the library on Monday.”

“Monday?”

“Yes. That’s when I go back to work.”

He frowned. “Are you sure you’ll be ready?”

She lifted the shoulder of her good arm and flashed him a mischievous grin. “As long as I can figure out how to hook my bra, I’m sure I’ll be fine.”

He laughed with her, despite his brain going back to thinking about her bra again. “You don’t want to overdue it.” He waggled his eyebrows as he teased her. “You see what I did there? A little library humor…don’t want tooverdueit.”

That’s it.Tell some cheesy jokes and do a cease-fire on the sexy images of the half-naked librarian.

“Funny. Andsooriginal,” she said, giving his shoulder a good-natured nudge. “But seriously, I’ll be fine. It’s not like my job requires a lot of strenuous activity. I mainly sit at my computer…well, except when I’m shelving books or checking in the returns or shooing away the teenage boys who are trying to use the library’s computers to look up porn.”

Doing his best to ignore the fact that she had just brought up porn, for Pete’s sake, he raised one eyebrow as he stared at her.

Her shoulders shrank in, and her lips curved into a sheepish grin. “Okay. Some of that does sound a little strenuous. But I can get a volunteer to help me with the books and the returns. And even one-handed, I think I can still manage to run off the horny teenagers.”

The last few days of hanging out with her hadhimfeeling like a horny teenager. And he couldn’t remember the last time he’d been so unsettled by a woman. He needed to get it together. Focus on taking care of her.

“Speaking of your hand, how is it feeling? Do you want a pain pill?”

She shook her head. “I’m okay for now. I’ll take some more ibuprofen at lunch.”

“Can I do anything for you? I mean, like get you anything?”

“I’m good.”

“Just let me know. I’ll get it for you.” He raised a teasing eyebrow. “You were pretty fun on painkillers.”

“Oh gosh. What did I do?”

“You don’t remember?”

The way her cheeks went pink made him think that maybe she might remember the way she’d kissed him. Or the way he’d kissed her back.

“Maybe. A little. Most of my day yesterday is a bit hazy.” She wrinkled her nose. “Did I…?”

Her phone buzzed on the coffee table, interrupting her question. Which Dodge was thankful for since he wasn’t prepared to answer it. Did she remember the kiss?

“It’s the garage,” she said, picking up her phone and tapping the screen to answer. “Hello.”

Her face fell as she listened to the call. “They said my car won’t be fixed for two weeks.”

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