CHAPTER 14
Mandy smashed the glass from his hand, bruising his fingers. The glass shattered against the cast-iron griddle and the water splashed into the blazingly-hot pan where it immediately burst into a flash of steam releasing the fond. The thousand bits of steak and vegetable stuck to the cast iron turned the frothing water an intense, dirty brown.
Shocked, he reached for the handle and burned his hand without a potholder.
With a curse he dropped it on the floor and had to jump back as the whole mess of scalding, murky water splashed all over his pristine white pants.
He’d expected trouble from her big brother, not her. Couldn’t she have sat still for another twenty-three seconds? He spun to face Mandy, her own glass sitting untouched on the counter.
But she wasn’t looking at him
