Page 5 of Under the Moonlight

Plus, she was a little irritated with Sam. She’d left several voice mails and called the bank where he worked, hoping one of the tellers could grab him. Only both times, he’d been in a meeting and had told them to tell her he’d call her back. She knew that it was his job, but her calling multiple times should have tipped him off that it was an emergency.

Greer dressed quickly, wanting to get the heck out of there and back home where food and her comfortable couch waited. She’d had a protein bar before her run several hours ago, and her stomach was protesting the lack of sustenance. She caught her reflection in the door glass and winced.

Xander had been kind to call her gorgeous when she looked like a train wreck. Wild, messy hair and dirt streaks across her forehead and cheeks. Why hadn’t one of the nurses said something to her?

She washed her face in the sink and ran a paper towel over it. Feeling less grimy, she smiled when the nurse came in and handed her the paper with her pain medication prescription.

“I hope you feel better,” the cheerful red head in purple scrubs said.

“Thanks.” Greer dialed out for Jill and left her a voicemail to meet her at her place when she could. She stepped out into the hallway and found Xander leaning against the wall waiting for her. She saw several women in scrubs watching him from a doorway, their gazes traveling over his body. She couldn’t blame them. His jacket was tossed over one tan arm, his navy t-shirt making his eyes seem richer and the jeans he was wearing emphasized his long legs. The guy was tall, built, and any girl’s wet dream.

Even mine.

She needed to get a grip on herself and stop being

a lust puppy. She could drool over Chris Pine. He was famous, sexy and completely unattainable.

Xander was within arm’s length and had already admitted to flirting with her. That made the entire situation they were in way less innocent and she was already feeling guilty about her freak out over Sam’s potential proposal.

She needed to be friendly but professional. And stop melting every time Xander smiled at her.

“Hey, I’m ready.” Her voice came out squeakier than usual.

Xander stood up straight and shrugged into his jacket. “Are you hungry?”

“Starved actually, but I will just make something at home.”

“We can grab something,” he said.

“It’s okay. I have a prescription to pick up that won’t be ready for a while, so I have to come back to town anyway.”

“The doctor said for you to take it easy, remember? Why don’t I take you to lunch and we’ll pick up the prescription on the way back to your place?”

Sitting down with Xander for lunch, staring at him across a table with food? Bad idea. “No, that’s okay, really.”

“I insist. Unless you don’t want to be seen with me?”

His teasing had the desired effect and she caved. “You are really being too nice to me. It wouldn’t take very long to go home and get my purse. I should be feeding you after everything you’ve done.”

“You can get lunch next time.”

“You think there’s going to be a next time?” she asked.

He leveled her with those sparkling blue eyes and she forgot to breathe.

“I hope so.”

5

Greer climbed out of Xander’s Bronco when he parked. She’d suggested Moonlight Ridge Restaurant and Bakery because after the day she’d had, she really wanted pie. Pie was her weakness. She couldn’t make it, but damn, she could win any pie eating contest in the county.

They walked through the door and one of the waitresses smiled as she rushed by. “Hey, Greer. Be right back.”

Xander quirked a brow at her and she shrugged. “That’s Kelsey. We went to high school together. Plus, I come here a lot. They have really good pie. The chocolate is to die for.”

He chuckled. “I’m sold.”

When the waitress came back, Greer accepted Kelsey Mackintosh’s hug with affection. Kelsey was a sweet woman with dark hair threaded with teal and magenta streaks, and bright green eyes.

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