Gambling On a Heart. Sara Walter Ellwood
okay. It isn’t like my house was broken into. But I can see how something like this could bother a person.”
When he put his hat on, getting ready to leave, Tracy was both glad and disappointed. Without meaning to say anything at all, she said, “I got an interesting email this morning.”
Zack puckered his brow in askance.
“It was from Melissa Blackwell. She’s back in town.”
He rubbed the side of his face in thought. His beard was coming in as a dark shadow on his angular jaw. She could imagine the sinful sensations it could cause on her skin in certain forbidden places.
She shivered as a blush heated her neck. Don’t even go there.
“You heard about Buck?” he asked.
“Yeah, apparently she’s here to take care of him. She answered the ad I placed this morning for help.”
He swung his sharp blue eyes to hers. “You’re looking to hire someone?”
She moved behind the desk and pretended to rearrange her pens and pencils in the lace-covered jar in which she kept them. “I’m thinking about it.”
“So, you’re expanding. That’s good.”
Tracy shook her head. “Not really.” A short snort of a laugh escaped her lips. She had to be crazy for even thinking this, let alone telling Zack, but something deep down needed his approval, or maybe it was his acceptance. “I’m going back to school to finish my degree.”
He raised a brow, and his lips turned up at the corners. It wasn’t much of a smile, but it made Tracy’s heart soar. “Good for you. Well, I gotta go and pick up Mandy from daycare.”
Still recovering from the thrill he’d given her, Tracy swallowed hard and nodded. “Have a good night.”
At the door, he looked over his shoulder at her and tipped his hat. “You, too. See you around.”
For a long time after he left, Tracy stood there in the reception area. What the hell had just happened? When had she actually decided to go back to school?
She laughed aloud and shook her head. “I guess I decided two minutes ago.”
Damn. She rushed to her office and clicked on the website for the university. She’d better get registered.
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