Free Dr Di Angelo's Baby Bombshell by Janice Lynn

barriers between their bodies, had felt his hairy legs tangled with her smoothly shaven ones, but she’d thought he’d been wearing more than his underwear.
    Stretching his arms over his head, drawing attention to the lean planes of his body, he lifted a dark brow. “Is that a problem?”
    How dared he look so hot first thing in the morning? She’d wanted to see him ruffled, but she hadn’t meant like this, with sleep softening his expression, his hair sexily tousled, his body barely covered with brief cotton boxers that left little to her imagination.
    â€œYes, it’s a problem! You’re not wearing underwear tobed tonight. Not if you expect me to be in that bed with you. Got it?”
    His lips twitched with amusement. “Okay. If you insist. I wouldn’t have last night if I’d known how you felt.”
    Scowling, Darby crossed her arms over her breasts, trying to hide her body’s reaction to his stretch, to his near nakedness, to his comment that she knew was only his usual teasing.
    â€œThat’s not what I meant, and you know it.”
    â€œHey.” He put his hands up in mock surrender. “I was just trying to follow orders. You know I like it when you’re all Darby bossy.”
    â€œFine, let’s see how you do with this Darby bossy. Hurry up in the bathroom, because as you can tell—” she gestured to her make-up-free face and sleep-mussed hair “—I’ve a lot of work to do before we go to that picnic, and I don’t want to be late.”
    Why miss a single moment of reminiscing over the most humiliating time of her life, with the man of her dreams there to watch?

CHAPTER FIVE
    M ANDY C OULSON wasn’t what Blake had expected.
    She was petite, blonde, curvy, brown-eyed, and had a friendly smile that appeared genuine.
    From the way Darby acted each time her name was mentioned, he’d been looking for horns and a pitchfork.
    However, when she glanced toward Darby something did shift in her gaze. Something Blake couldn’t completely read. Guilt? Regret? Anger? Resentment? Or maybe Mandy wasn’t looking at Darby at all, but rather the man chatting with her.
    Trey Nix.
    Blake stood a little taller, held his head a little higher. And attempted not to spy on where Darby talked to the man whom she blushed at with every other word he said.
    Damn it. Blake was the only man she blushed for. Didn’t she know that?
    He hadn’t realized until that moment, but it was true.Darby didn’t blush at any time except when he teased her as he had this morning.
    She’d blushed like crazy when he’d climbed out of bed.
    But she was also blushing right now, while smiling at something a man from her past said while he looked at her as if he’d like to take a big bite of her future.
    Who was the guy, and what had their relationship been?
    Based on what little Darby had said, on what her family had alluded to the night before, he’d guess they’d been romantically involved and Darby had been hurt.
    â€œHow long have you and Darby been together?” Mandy asked, glancing toward where Darby spoke with Trey. Her brown eyes narrowed at the talking couple.
    No doubt about it. There had been a love triangle between the three of them.
    Also glancing toward where the tall man flirted with Darby, Blake didn’t like the direction his brain was taking him, nor the fact that looking at her blushing for another man made him feel caught up in a triangle of his own.
    Which was crazy.
    He and Darby didn’t feel that way about each other. Even if going to sleep holding her hand and waking next to her had been unexpected pleasures.
    â€œWe met in medical school. The moment I saw her I wanted her.”
    He said the words as part of his madly-in-love-with-her role, but hearing the confession out loud sent cold chills over his body.
    He had wanted Darby the moment he saw her.
    He had been denying that want for years,