Slade gave a raspy chuckle. “It’s me, all right,” he agreed. “Is Kendra around?”
Joslyn shook her head, and her soft brown hair seemed to dance around her oval face. Her eyes were wide-set, her mouth full....
Why was he thinking about her mouth?
“She finally sold the chicken farm,” Joslyn said. “She’s off delivering contracts.” She hesitated, moistened her lips briefly before going on and thus ignited an achy flame in Slade. “Is there something I can help you with?”
Oh, yeah, Slade thought, grimly wry. But it probably isn’t the kind of help you have in mind.
“I wanted to talk to her about the Kingman place—see if she’d get in touch with the owners and ask them about renting the house to me. I’ll catch up with her later.”
Joslyn swallowed, nodded. He wanted to touch his lips to the pulse leaping at the base of her throat.
Glad he’d brought his hat with him instead of leaving it in the truck, Slade held it in both hands at belt-buckle level. He hoped the move seemed casual.
“I’ll tell her you stopped in,” Joslyn said.
He took some consolation in the fairly obvious fact that he wasn’t the only nervous person around.
“That would be great,” he said. It was the perfect time to leave, but, probably for the same reason he was holding his hat in a strategic position, he didn’t.
Joslyn dusted her hands together. “I don’t know how to contact the owners,” she said, “but if you want another look at the ranch house, I’m sure the lockbox keys are around here somewhere. I could get them and let you inside.”
In the next moment, she looked confounded, as though she hadn’t planned to say what she had.
Slade didn’t need yet another tour of the ranch house—he’d been there with Kendra a dozen times. He knew every inch of the place, which floorboards creaked and the state of the plumbing. He knew just how each room would look, once he’d completed the necessary renovations, which he’d planned in detail.
“I’d like that,” he said, careful not to let his gaze drift any lower than the base of her throat. He was already in over his head; no sense making things worse.
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