urge to take her in his arms and make love to her right then and there.
“Are you all right, Wesley?”
Wesley quickly raised his gaze to the end of the table at the sound of Miranda Danforth’s soft voice. She was looking at him with concern and so was everyone else at the table. He suddenly realized why. She had asked him a question a while ago and he had yet to answer.
“Yes, I’m fine,” he answered smiling, focusing on the woman with the warm blue eyes who had always been there for him after he’d come to live with her and Harold in this huge house. From the moment they had invited him into their home, not only as their son’s best friend, but also as a member of their family, an unofficially adopted son, they had occupied a special place in his heart. All the Danforths had.
“She asked if you’ve been dating anyone special lately,” Harold Danforth chuckled, repeating his wife’s question. His eyebrows were heavy over kind blue eyes. “Now that Jake’s married off, she’s determined to see what she can do about you since it seems that Toby and Imogene are lost causes.”
Wesley smiled. Tobias, whom everyone fondly called Toby, was Harold and Miranda’s divorced twenty-nine-year-old son who lived in Wyoming. Everyone knew that like Ian, Toby had no plans to ever remarry. And Imogene was married to her career. Not surprising to anyone, she had called earlier to say she would miss dinner because she was on the run and was trying to squeeze in a late appointment with a potential client.
“Well, Wesley, are you dating?”
Wesley’s smile widened at Miranda’s question. He remembered when he and Jake had lived at home, Miranda would wait for them after their dates to find out how things had gone. Of course he and Jake had never told her everything. But just the thought that she had cared enough to ask had meant a lot to him and he’d never considered it as meddling like Jake often had.
He glanced quickly across the table and met Jake’s smile and knew his best friend thought his mother was meddling now. “No, I’m not dating but I am seeing someone,” he finally answered.
He saw the bemused frown settle on Miranda’s brow. He understood her confusion since the situation confused him, too. However, Jasmine was determined not to “date” him. As far as he was concerned, she could call it what she liked as long as he got to see her and be with her.
“Will we get a chance to meet her?” Jake asked grinning.
Wesley shot his best friend a warning glance. Jake was the only one at the table who knew the woman he was seeing was Jasmine Carmody and just how deep their relationship had gotten. Although none of them other than Jake and Larissa had met Jasmine, everyone knew her name and knew her to be the persistent reporter hounding the Danforths. He smiled when he thought of what everyone’s reaction would be when he brought her to dinner, which was something he planned to do when she realized that he intended to remain a part of her life for a while.
“I’ll bring her around soon. Right now she’s rather shy.” He ignored the sound of Jake nearly choking on his wine. “But, her shyness is something that I’m working on.”
Miranda smiled. “Good, and we look forward to meeting her.”
Wesley returned her smile. He looked forward to introducing Jasmine to the people that he cared about. Then she would see that the Danforths were warm, caring people who had nothing to hide.
Wesley stood under Jasmine’s porch light as she opened the door. Usually he would follow her home from her last interview then go to his own place. He had wanted to give her time to adjust to how things were between them. In addition, she had been a virgin and he had wanted to be considerate and give her body time to recover from last Friday night. So he had waited out a week, but now he wanted her again.
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