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“You don’t take orders. You don’t listen. You don’t think. You don’t change your mind either, do you?” he stated glaring at her.
“Really? You’re still going on about this? It was fun but it’s not real. I’m not twenty and you’re no longer that first love, we’ve grown apart.”
“Then why do you burn for me every time I touch you?”
“I’mnottalking about this right now Joel. I have a doctor’s appointment in about an hour so I’m simply stopping in to check on the progress. It’s looking pretty good considering.”
“You have another doctor’s appointment?” Joel asked concerned.
“They want to see how it’s healing and if all goes well, I’ll get rid of these useless things,” she said indicating the crutches.
“Want some company?” he asked.
“No thanks, I hate doctors and hospitals and all of that stuff so the shorter the visit the better. Besides don’t you have work to do?”
“I’m sure the boss wouldn’t mind if I skipped out early. He’s trying his damndest to get me married off to his daughter.”
“Yeah, well that’s not going to happen,” she said with a snort of laughter. Why couldn’t they get it? She wasn’t staying. She couldn’t let herself get that close to anyone again…she’d already messed up by allowing Joel into her heart, anymore and she’d be trapped.
She gave a last look around assuring herself that they were following her plans and headed back to the Jeep where Neal sat waiting for her.
“Ready?” he asked.
“All set.”
They pulled out but she couldn’t help but look back at Joel one more time. She just couldn’t give him up completely no matter how hard she tried he continued to creep back in. She couldn’t count the number of times she’d slipped in the last few weeks allowing him to pull her close and kiss her before sanity reared its head and she put a stop to it. Her body was craving his and the more she pushed him away the more it grew. Why couldn’t she get him out of her head…her body…her heart?
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“You’re making me look like a fool here Joel,” Sam said slapping a hand against his shoulder. “I put good money down that she’d be married within three months. By my calculations that give you less than three weeks to make it happen.”
“You mean you’re tired of losing money because you bet against me?”
“Huh?” Sam said confused.
“I told you she wouldn’t be back in Maine for the wedding shower, and you lost twenty on it. How much did you lose by betting she’d marry that fool?”
“I didn’t put anything down on her marry Aaron. I said I put money down that a wedding would happen…your wedding to her. She doesn’t sleep anymore you know.”
“Huh?” apparently it was Joel’s turn to be confused now.
“Dad says he hears her tossing and turning all night. She hasn’t slept a full night since you all went to California. I thought I was going to be the only member of the family with months of sleepless nights, but Paige is winning that one it seems.”
“Other than tossing her over my shoulder and then tying her to the bed I don’t think she’s going to willingly let me find that out.”
“I do not want to hear about your sex life with my sister. The only reason I didn’t beat the hell out of you ten years ago when I found out you’d been carrying on for two years behind my back was because I saw firsthand that you were in love with her.”
“You mean for four years.”
“Two…you all started getting together after her eighteenth birthday, right?”
“What do you mean by getting together?”
“It was after her eighteenth birthday when something about her changed. I thought that meant she’d finally found someone special, but she didn’t want Dad to interfere, so she kept it to herself. Four years would have put her at sixteen…you son of a…”
“Sam, easy there, who always wins in a fist fight?”
“You bastard. You started sleeping with my sister when she was sixteen?” he said shoving Joel.
