Crazy for Her(15)

Had she lost her mind? “No, I’m sorry, but you can’t. He’s out there and I’m not letting you take off on your own, out of my sight.”

The light faded from her eyes and she pressed her fingertips to them. “I forgot,” she whispered. “How could I forget?”

She walked out of the kitchen without a backward glance and disappeared back into her room. Logan wearily stood and washed the dishes, and dried and put them away. He turned off the lights and slipped out the back door, sitting on the steps of the deck. Listening for night sounds, he heard the chirps of crickets and the hoots of an owl and knew there was no one lurking in the dark.



 Dani slipped a T-shirt over her head and pulled on a pair of shorts. Sliding her feet into a pair of Black Dog flip-flops, she took a deep breath and followed the aroma of coffee to the kitchen. After getting up at six to feed Regan and play with her until she was tired enough to go back to sleep, Dani had crawled back into bed and slept until ten. She was tired, cranky, and in dire need of caffeine.

“Coffee?” Logan asked when she stumbled into the room.

“Hot tea,” she grumbled, though she longed for the coffee. But she’d drunk too much the night before, or had it been that morning? As much as she loved nursing Regan, there were definite drawbacks. She aimed for the cabinet, but Logan stepped in front of her.

“Sit, I’ll make it for you.”

She frowned at him.

“Sit.”

There was an edge to his voice. It seemed they both weren’t in the best of moods. Was he angry because she had walked out of the room after they had finished their brownies? Was he that touchy? She shrugged and sat down.

Still in possession of a libido, even though it had lain dormant for almost two years, she gave him an appreciative once-over. A blue T-shirt stretched over broad shoulders and every time he moved, chest and arm muscles flexed. Tight jeans and black running shoes covered his bottom half. Did he have any idea what an awesome butt he had?

He turned with her cup of tea in his hand and caught her ogling his ass. Heat crept into her cheeks. His lips thinned and a muscle twitched in his jaw. Jeez, the man had muscles everywhere.

“Thank you,” she muttered when he set the cup in front of her.

With typical SEAL efficiency, ten minutes later a plate of eggs, bacon, and toast appeared in front of her. “Aren’t you eating?” she asked.

“I had my breakfast while it was still breakfast time.”

“What’s your problem, Logan?”

A cell phone rang from the vicinity of his marvelous butt. He pulled it out of his back pocket and looked at it. “I have to take this.” He walked to the back door. Just before it closed behind him, she heard him say, “Hey, Maria.”

Dani imagined a brown-skinned woman with lush curves and smoldering black eyes on the other end of the phone. Her long hair would shimmer blue-black in the sunlight. He’d greeted the caller with warmth in his voice, much different than the tone he had taken with her that morning. She pushed her half-eaten breakfast away.

As she washed the dishes, she watched Logan out the kitchen window. He sat on the deck railing with the phone to his ear, laughing at something the sensuous Maria said. Dani frowned. Of course, he had a life and the women he included in it were of no concern to her. Slapping the dish towel onto the counter, she turned away and left the kitchen.





CHAPTER FIVE



Not finding Dani in the house, Logan walked out to the front porch. Where the hell was she? He looked up the driveway and saw her coming toward him, the mail in her hand. “Damn it, Dani,” he muttered. If she thought it was safe to go to her mailbox, then he still hadn’t gotten through to her.

“Have you lost your mind?” he said, pleased with how calm he sounded.

She paused at the bottom of the steps and returned his glare. “Don’t yell at me.”

Okay, maybe not so calm. He paced to the end of the porch and took a deep breath, then turned and walked back. “I’m sorry, but you had me worried. I couldn’t find you anywhere in the house, and where are you? Outside. By yourself. What if he’d been waiting for you?”

Coming up the steps, she stopped in front of him and rested her hand on his arm, her touch calming him. How did she do that? Someday he would try to understand how he managed to stay ice cold under fire, but lost all sense of direction around her. Up was down and out was in. He needed a Dani GPS.

“I just went to get the mail. It wasn’t like I took off down the road. You were so involved in your conversation with Maria that I thought you wouldn’t even notice I was gone.”

Logan didn’t miss the drawn-out emphasis she put on Maria’s name and didn’t know what to make of it. “I noticed,” he said, and followed her into the house. “Next time, I’ll get the mail.”