feminine, like jasmine, that it stirred images of making love to her in a bed of wildflowers.
Her gaze met his, a warning in those eyes, and he dropped his hand.
Idiot. A woman like her wouldn’t be caught dead in his bed, much less naked in a field of wildflowers with him.
The thought made his anger rise again. “Sorry, Miss Alexander. I was just trying to help.”
She paused, lips forming a thin line as she stared him down. “It’s BJ.”
“BJ?”
“Yes, that’s my name,” she said, with a bite to her voice. “If we’re going to work together, you can’t keep calling me Miss Alexander like it’s a dirty word.”
A smile tugged at his lips. “All right, BJ.” He liked the way it rolled off his tongue. “So why the initials? What does BJ stand for?”
“None of your business.” She tossed him a withering smile, dispelling any semblance that she planned to get friendly, then walked ahead and climbed the porch steps. He followed like a damn dog in heat.
A chubby lady with a warm smile greeted them, and introduced herself as Mama Mary, the housekeeper and cook. She studied Cash for a moment as if she was dissecting him, then her eyes twinkled. “Nice to meet you, Mr. Cash. Y’all come on in and make yourselves at home.” She shook the lawyer’s hand, then Cash’s, her gaze lingering on him, welcoming. Friendly.
An odd reaction, since she must be aware he’d been arrested for murder.
Remembering his manners, he tipped his Stetson. He’d felt naked without it in jail.
She directed them toward a closed door. “I’ll get some coffee for everyone and sandwiches, and I just made a cobbler.”
Cash didn’t think his arrest warranted cobbler, but he was starving so he kept his mouth shut.
Voices from inside the room echoed through the wall. “You think he’s innocent?”
“I don’t know, but we’ll find out.” That voice belonged to the sheriff.
“I don’t think we should tell him who we are, not yet,” a third man said.
Anger gripped Cash, and he stormed through the door. He didn’t intend to be in the dark another minute.
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