Dancing in the Moonlight - Harlequin.com

RAEANNE THAYNE
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“What time is it?”
Viviana sat up straighter and gave a sleepy shrug.
“Midnight. Maybe later. I returned after nine and you
were sound asleep. Jacob, he was sitting in this chair
reading a book. I told him to go home.”
Heat scorched her cheeks. Something else to keep her
up at night—that he had sat here and watched her sleeping.
She supposed she should take some small comfort
that he was a physician and had probably sat at the
bedside of many sleeping patients. She was just one
more in a long line. But somehow that didn’t provide
much solace to her turmoil.
She shifted her gaze back to her mother and found
Viviana studying her closely, a hundred questions in her
eyes. She could just imagine her mother’s surprise at the
scene she had walked in on. Finding Jake Dalton
camped out comfortably in her living room must have
been quite a shock, as Viviana plainly knew Maggie’s
negative feelings for Jake.
Or at least the negative feelings Maggie was fiercely
trying to remind herself she should be having.
She reached over and turned on the lamp next to the
couch and decided to quickly change the subject,
ignoring those implied questions. “How was your
meeting? Jake told me Tío Guillermo is on the library
board. Did you have a chance to talk to him?”
To her surprise, her usually unflappable mother
blushed. “I talked to him,” she said, then called him a
string of words in Spanish so unflattering Maggie’s
eyes widened.
She couldn’t figure out the sudden animosity