Another Man's Baby

Excerpt

"I've got to go. Nick promised to have my car ready. Give me a call later tonight if you get a chance."

"Uh, yeah, sure. Be careful." He shifted to make it easier for her to give him a kiss.

"Ick. You're all sweaty. Don't muss me for my meeting." She kissed more air than lips, flashed him her practiced smile and then walked away.

Garret glanced back toward the massage room only to find the door closed once more. Swearing beneath his breath at the strange situation he found himself in, he grabbed his gear from the locker room and headed out of the gym.

The February air cooled the sweat on his skin with numbing swiftness, but that was nothing compared to the surprise he felt when he saw Joss standing outside her car talking to Toby. Joss looked flustered, her normally ultracool persona nowhere to be found as she stared up into Toby's face and gave him what for about something. The scene caught his attention because she looked so fiery and passionate. So unlike the woman she was with him. The woman she'd appeared inside the gym. If he wasn't mistaken she almost looked--

Interested in Toby?

The thought came out of nowhere, a sucker punch that couldn't have shocked him more. No way. It was his imagination. One of the first lessons in law school was that in domestic cases the guilty are usually the first to accuse the innocent of their own crimes. The fact he liked Darcy, was curious about her and had been thinking about her as something other than a friend, that was why he saw what he thought he saw.

He took a step forward to join them but something held him back. Garret watched, unable to take his eyes off the scene playing out before him. Joss said something he couldn't hear, but Toby's reaction was instantaneous. His buddy bent forward, his head lowering, his posture that of a man about to kiss a woman senseless--or quiet. At the last second, Toby stopped and pulled away, but there was no denying the sexual tension flaring between the two of them.

Had he been played for a fool? Was that why Joss was so uncomfortable of late? Was that why Toby was avoiding his calls? Guilt?

Doubts bombarded Garret's head. All those hours he worked. Jocelyn's distance. Tobe stopping by the gallery, pressuring Garret to decide. This was why? He ground his teeth until his jawbone popped loud in his ear, angry, furious at Toby's trespassing and yet--not sure what to do. The rational, don't-go-off-half-cocked- mediator-attorney in him demanded proof before he considered confronting them, and seeing them talking in a parking lot did not qualify as such. But the tension. What about that?

Toby stalked off and got into his SUV, peeling out of the parking lot and heading west even though he'd been dressed in work-out clothes and hadn't stepped foot inside the gym. Joss did the same but headed east, both of them seemingly trying to stay as far away from each other as possible.

A gust of wind hit him but did nothing for the anger simmering inside him.

Was Joss cheating on him with his best friend?

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