Based on her excellent powers of deduction, Emmaline would guess that Colleen was ignoring the former Mrs. Jack Holland, and Jack had just asked her to knock it off.
So. The Princess of Beautiful Land was back in town and sprinkling her fairy dust on Jack. And while everyone knew Hadley had cheated on him, men were generally stupid about things like this. People who looked like Hadley (and Naomi Norman, for that matter) got away with some very stinky crap.
“So when do we leave?” Jack asked, sliding back into his seat.
“Thursday?”
“Thursday’s great.”
She paused. “Okay. Thank you, Jack.”
“My pleasure. It’ll be nice to go somewhere warm.”
“Malibu is beautiful. Every day of the year, more or less.”
He finished his beer. “Send me the info on the flight and hotel so I can make a reservation, okay?”
“I’ll make it for you. You’re not spending one thin dime on this trip.”
He smiled at her so suddenly that it was like being wrapped in a warm, soft blanket. “And blah blah blah blah,” he said. Well, he probably said actual words, but Em couldn’t quite hear at the moment, as she was rendered close to death by the beauty of that smile, those crinkling, pure blue eyes, the tousled blond hair, the...the...the glory that was Jack Holland.
Then he stood up, squeezed her shoulder and left, waving at the O’Rourke twins and nodding at his ex-wife, who positively beamed and fluttered, butterfly-like, back at him.
Which took away some of the glow.
Even so, it was a good five minutes before Emmaline trusted herself to stand up.
Do not fall for this guy, she warned herself. Very sternly.
But her shoulder still buzzed from the warmth of his hand.
This was a disaster waiting to happen.
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