For the Love of God

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the close quarters. There was another man seated in a chair directly behind her, so she couldn’t even edge her chair away from the table.
    “Sorry,” she apologized when her knee rubbed against the side of his for the fourth time. She hoped he didn’t think she was doing it deliberately.
    “It’s close quarters in here.” Seth offered the excuse, but the light glinting in his blue eyes made her feel hot.
    “Yes, it is.” Abbie opened her menu to study it intently. Maybe if she sat perfectly still and didn’t move, it wouldn’t be so bad.
    “What are you going to have?” he asked as he spread open his menu.
    “A chef’s salad, I think.” Her stomach wasn’t behaving too well. She didn’t want to put a lot of food into it. “How about you?”
    But when she looked up, his gaze was making a leisurely survey of her upper body and appearing to take particular note of the hint of maturely rounded breasts under the loose-fitting dress. Itwas the look of a man, and a hundred alarm bells rang in her ears.
    “Are you on a diet?” Seth finally lifted his gaze to her face. “It’s just one man’s opinion, but I don’t see how you can improve on your figure.”
    In the first place, she wasn’t sure if he should notice such things, and she definitely felt he shouldn’t comment on them if he did. But how on earth did you reprimand a minister? Abbie preferred to believe she had misinterpreted his glance. Maybe it had been more analytical and less intimate.
    “I don’t like to eat a lot of food on a hot day like today.” She chose to explain away her lack of appetite.
    “That’s probably very wise,” he agreed. When the waitress came, Seth ordered for both of them. At the last minute, Abbie remembered she had promised to bring her father a sandwich.
    “I’ll need a cold roast-beef sandwich to go, too, please,” she added hastily, then explained to Seth when the waitress left, “My father was tied up and couldn’t get away for lunch.”
    “He’s an attorney here?”
    “Yes. It’s just a small practice. He keeps talking about retiring but he won’t. He loves what he’s doing too much.” It seemed easier to talk about her father than the other choice of subjects open to her—like the weather. “Although he does complain that his practice interferes with his fishing,” she added with a laughing smile.
    “He’s an avid fisherman, I take it.” Seth smiled.
    “Very avid,” Abbie agreed, and couldn’t help thinking that Seth was a “Fisher of Men.”
    “I didn’t have a chance to meet him last Sunday at the tea. I’m looking forward to it, though,” he said. “How long have you worked for him?”
    “About a year now.” Abbie leaned back in her chair when the waitress returned to set a glass of iced tea in front of her and milk for Seth. The action accidentally pressed more of her leg against his.
    “Don’t worry,” he murmured on a seductively low-pitched note. “I’m not going to think you’re playing footsy with me under the table.” Abbie was positive she had never blushed in her life, but her cheeks were on fire at the moment. Her mind was absolutely blank of anything to say. Seth seemed to guess and asked, “What did you do before that? Attend college?”
    “No, I worked for TWA in Kansas City.” She was relieved to have the subject changed.
    “As a stewardess?”
    “No, I was in management, in the corporate offices.”
    His attention deepened. Abbie braced herself for the next question, fully anticipating that he was going to ask why she had left, but it never came. There was only the quiet study of his keen eyes.
    “Thomas Wolfe was obviously wrong. It ispossible to go home again,” was the only comment he made.
    “I’m just a small-town girl at heart,” she admitted.
    Just as the waitress came with their luncheon order, a local judge paused by their table. Abbie had known Judge Sessions since she was a small child, so she wasn’t surprised by his greeting when he

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