Stalking the Pharmacist Read Free

in front of her, yet all she could think about were
the men standing outside watching her. She was trying, God knew she was trying, to forget their presence. But if her eyes had been
capable of dividing, one would be staring straight at those men and probably
giving them the meanest look she had. Why were they so interested in her? They
were gorgeous, older yes, but sexy as hell.
    “It must have been hard taking time away
from your business like that. Or do you have someone you trust to run it?”
    Ash forced her brain back to the
conversation she was having with her cousin Laura’s
new mother-in-law Rosalie and turned her back on the men.
    “A week isn’t too bad, but yes, any longer
and it gets stressful. I have some fantastic pharmacists working for me,
though, and I trust them not to burn the place down while I’m gone.”
    “That sounds interesting. Who’s burning
what down?”
    Ash jumped to the side when she heard an
incredibly deep voice. Her heart thumped in her chest and heat spread up her
cheeks when she realized it belonged to Jack, the bigger, blonder twin.
    “Hey, Aunt Rosalie. Congratulations on finally marrying those
two off.”
    Jack kissed the woman, and Ash gulped air
into her lungs. What on earth had happened outside when Jack and his twin,
Scott, had touched her? It had been like they’d reached inside her and attached
electrodes to her soul, shooting pleasure into her belly and destroying her
ability to hold her own body weight. If Jack hadn’t stepped forward when he
had, she would have ended up on the ground, a pulsing mess of sensations.
    “Yeah, well they had to wait for the right
woman to come along, didn’t they, Jack?”
    Something almost stern in Rosalie’s tone
snapped Ash’s attention back to their conversation and she watched a slash of
red color Jack’s handsome face.
    “Yes, they were much smarter than I.”
    Oh, so he was married? He wasn’t wearing a
ring, although that wasn’t a given for all men. Divorced, then? Or had he let
someone go?
    Rosalie turned back to her, blue eyes
glowing with warmth.
    “Jack, have you met Laura’s cousin Ash?
She’s a pharmacist from Toronto.”
    Ash’s belly tightened as Jack’s sparkling
ocean-blue eyes met hers, a smile tilting up his full lips.
    “I did, outside for a moment, though I
didn’t realize she was a pharmacist.”
    Ash swallowed the lump that had risen in
her throat and straightened her shoulders. She could do this. Conduct a
conversation with a man she couldn’t keep her eyes off.
    “What do you do, Jack?”
    He grinned at her, that smile lighting its
way down into the pit of her belly, pulling on an area between her thighs that
Ash had believed had died a long time ago. After her ex-husband had done such a
good job of destroying her self-esteem, she hadn’t thought a man would ever
truly appeal to her again.
    She squeezed her thighs together and almost
gasped at the jolt of longing that just being so close to this man brought her.
She’d never believed in lust at first sight, but this had to be it!
    “I’m a football coach for the local high
school. I played pro ball for a few years after college.”
    Ash’s blood cooled like the heat had never
been. He said that with such arrogance, as though it was actually impressive!
She frowned and looked away. What was the easiest way of escaping? Maybe say
she needed to go to the toilet?
    “Oh, that’s nice. Would you excuse me? Rosalie,
could you tell me where the bathroom is, please?”
    Jack’s eyes went wide and his mouth fell
open slightly.
    Yeah,
I’m not impressed by the fact that you can kick a bloody ball around, buddy.
    She smiled at Rosalie and tried to ignore
the odd pain in her gut. Why would she want to stay and talk to a footballer,
for God’s sake? Thick as a brick and more focused on his body than anything of
importance.
    Rosalie’s eyes widened as though she were
shocked by Ash’s reaction, but Ash wasn’t budging. How stupid did they think
she