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Tales by Jackie
Janton’s Square Market Place
Category:
Romance
Publisher: Half Appy Press
ISBN-10: 0996264515
Pages: 150
Copyright: Sept 13,2015
ISBN-13: 9780996264518
Price: $1.99 (eBook)
Lexie would love to know how and when Cutter had convinced her mother that she should spend her Saturday playing tour guide for him while he checked out some farms near the Williams place. She’d protested, in vain, that the Williams boys would be better guides.
Lexie Parker's practical mind and cautious nature battle with her attraction to Cutter Ross. Her heart and hormones win out. Lexie soon regrets her rushed courtship and fears she has made a bad decision. Is she in an abusive relationship? All Hell breaks loose while Cutter and Lexie try to hash out their relationship. "Panhandle Mayhem" the second book in the "Troubles in Love-Land Series continues the story of Lexie, Cutter, their friends, and enemies.
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Mel was intrigued; it was unusual for any man to have much of an effect on Lexie’s focus. “What did he do?”
"Just as I was ready to snuggle under the quilt Gram made at her quilting bee, the one she gave me for my birthday when I turned twenty-one, he calls, and ends with ‘sweet dreams’. I mean he...knew damn well I wouldn’t be able to sleep after that.”
Mel was munching on a nut-filled brownie while contemplating exactly what she was hearing. “That doesn’t sound so bad. Why would that keep you up all night?”
Lexie stared at her friend, selected an oatmeal cookie, rationalizing it as the breakfast she’d skipped, and then washed it down with a long drink of tea. She set her drink back on the adjustable bed table they were sharing and gave her friend a very graphic description of the scene in the drive the night before.
“I told you he was here for more than one reason. But no, you didn’t want to
acknowledge the hot looks cast your way. Well, Lexie, you can’t hide from the truth any longer. You’ve found Mr. Right.”
“Cut the Mr. Right crap, Mel. It wasn't anything other than pure animal magnetism. The man is loaded with it.”
“So, you admit you’re attracted to him.”
“I don’t deny that. Still, it’s no excuse for losing control. Thank God I don’t have to see him, or try to avoid the prospect today. I don’t think I can face him.”
“Aren’t the two of you going to dinner with Mom and Dad tomorrow night?”
"Don’t remind me. Actually, I was thinking of taking a trip up to Kelly’s Island, and keeping a large part of Lake Erie between us until he goes home.”
“Come on, Lexie, you’re not a coward. Are you going to let him get away? You’ll regret it the rest of your life if you do.”
“Mel, I know you’re a hopeless romantic, but let’s get real here. Cutter and I are diametrically opposed. I mean talk about opposites attracting! We would be at war constantly.”
“Are you sure? The two of you looked pretty comfortable together the few times I have seen you in his company.”
“All that aside, Mel, there is no way in hell that I am ever going back to Texas. I hate the
place.”
“You can’t hate the whole state, Lexie. You only saw a small part of it during the worst drought in a century.”
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