Thrill of the Chase by Lorhainne Eckhart

Author:Lorhainne Eckhart [Eckhart, Lorhainne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781928085522
Publisher: Lorhainne Eckhart, Inc.

Chapter Eighteen

“I told you I wanted a minute with Jerry,” Taz said as she pulled on her bra and shirt in the bathroom. Ivy had turned their father around long enough that Jerry could reach for her bra and shirt and hand it to her as she raced to the bathroom and slammed the door.

She returned a moment later, her face burning, and Ivy wore an expression that was both horror and amusement. Jerry was now standing, hands on hips, and Taz couldn’t look his way, because her father had just walked in on her with a guy who’d been, what, feeling her up?

A lock was what she needed.

“You know what, Dad?” she said. “It’s not okay for you to just walk in here.”

Jerry was gesturing to her. “It’s fine, Taz.”

“Go with your sister,” Robert said without turning her way, and Jerry didn’t appear worried in the least. She was horrified, yet Jerry appeared ready to face her dad and accept whatever was coming. “Ivy,” her dad finally said, still not turning their way, but it was said in a tone she hadn’t heard in a long time.

“Come on, Taz,” Ivy said. Her sister had her arm and somehow had her outside, pulling the door closed.

“What were you doing walking in with Dad?” Taz whispered loudly, and Ivy gripped her arm again and led her down the step and around the side, away from the cottage. She glanced back at the door.

“We all knew when you left with Jerry where you were going. Dad saw you and said you took him to your cottage. Scarlett made a crude remark about wondering what kind of kisser Jerry was, and I saw the seed that little shit planted on Mom and Dad’s faces. He said he was going to go on over and check on you, so I said I’d go with him—and I did my very best to make as much noise as I could, short of yelling out, ‘Gee, Taz, if you’re half naked, Dad’s on his way over, so get your frickin’ clothes on!’” she whispered loudly and then burst out laughing. “Oh, you should have seen your face, and your guy was quick, covering you up like that. I’m impressed. Shows class. Not sure Dad will see it that way.” She reached over and tapped Taz’s shoulder lightly, teasingly, and winked. “Just think, twenty, thirty years from now, you’ll look back on this and laugh.”

Taz couldn’t help glancing back to her cottage as they walked, wondering what her dad could be saying to Jerry. She still needed a moment, because on top of everything, she was reeling from what he’d said.

“What is it? You have this odd look on your face.” Ivy turned to the house and back to her as if checking around to make sure no one was lurking anywhere.

“It’s what Jerry said right before you and Dad walked in.”

Ivy, of all her sisters, had the most expressive eyes, and when she was laughing at Taz, it showed there first and in her smile next.

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