Read World's Most Eligible Texan for Free Online

be—”
    â€œThat’s why I came home,” he interrupted.
    Shocked by his statement, she stared at him. “It isn’t either! You didn’t come home to take me to dinner.”
    â€œDid so,” he argued quietly. “To my way of thinking, we have some unfinished business between us,” he said, and beneath his soft voice, she could hear a steely determination.
    She thought about her condition and shook her head. “I think it is finished,” she said. “You move in one world and I live in another. I’m just a country girl, Aaron, so let’s be realistic. You couldn’t have come home to take me to dinner!”
    â€œYes, ma’am, I surely did,” slipping into a West Texas drawl that she knew he didn’t usually have. “And what’s all this about a country girl? Where do you think I grew up?”
    â€œRight here, but don’t give me that ol’ country-boy routine. You were educated in the east and you live abroad and you move in circles that I know nothing about and the women in your life—”
    â€œBore me witless,” he said, scooting a little closer. “I wouldn’t pursue this if I didn’t feel like there was something between us.”
    His words devastated her, and she clutched her fingers even more tightly together. Resist the sweet talk, resist…
    She scooted away from him a few inches, keeping the space they’d had, but now she was pressed against the end of the sofa.
    â€œWe had sex between us, but—”
    â€œThat was lovemaking, Pamela,” he interrupted with such solemnity that her heart did another lurch. “It was good and fine and important.” He studied her. “Maybe we need to take some time now to get to know each other.”
    â€œNo, we don’t!”
    â€œWhy the hell not?”
    Her mind raced on how to answer him. Why did he have to sit so close? It was difficult to think. “I told you, I’m country and you’re not and don’t say you are. Our worlds are really different, and there is no way you can convince me that you’re here because I’m so fascinating.”
    â€œYou don’t think so?”
    â€œNo. How’d did you get off work in the middle of the week?”
    â€œI asked for time off to come home to see you.”
    Her jaw did drop. While she stared at him, he gazed back steadily with no amusement in his features now.
    â€œThis is important,” he announced solemnly.
    Her heart stopped. Missed beats and then picked up. No. Not now, was all she could think. Not now. Don’t do this. He mustn’t know. Her head swam. This can’t happen now. It’s too late. Much too late for us.
    She shook her head. “You need to pack and go back to Spain. This is ridiculous. We’re in different worlds, Aaron.That night was special, but it was just a night. Now I need to—”
    He moved closer. “Pamela, I want a chance to show you that our worlds aren’t that different. There are some basic things about people that match up, and I think we ought to get to know each other a little and see how much we match up. Maybe you’re right and it won’t be the magic it seemed, but let’s get to know each other a little better and give a relationship a chance.”
    â€œI just don’t think we should.” She could barely get out the words.
    â€œWhat will it hurt?” he persisted softly, lacing his fingers in hers and running his thumb across her knuckles and scrambling her thoughts.
    If you only knew, you would run like crazy. She stared at him, her heart pounding, knowing that she had to send him on his way.
    â€œYou’re sitting close.”
    â€œI’m glad you noticed. What will it hurt?”
    I will be in love with you more than I am now, she thought, and you’ll find out I’m carrying your baby, and then you’ll want to marry me for all the wrong reasons. She