Always Time To Die (sk-1) by Elizabeth Lowell

Author:Elizabeth Lowell [Lowell, Elizabeth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: love_detective

"MATS."

"Well, I'm not." Not exactly. But they sure trained me to within an inch of my life. "Civilian all the way."

She tilted her head, felt a trickle of water run from her hair down her spine, and decided to dig out her hair dryer after all.

And hit him with it.

Civilian all the way, my ass.

"It's true," he said, as though she'd spoken aloud. "Never mustered in and never mustered out. Wrong temperament. Too bookish."

"Stop reading my mind."

"Don't need to. Your expression says it all."

"Bookish?" she asked in disbelief.

He took the change of subject without a pause. "Yeah. I got distracted before I finished my Ph.D. or you'd be calling me doctor."

At first she thought he was joking. Then she looked at his careful listing of the different cards, remembered his ability to concentrate and absorb odd facts, and knew that he wasn't teasing her.

"Doctor, huh? Okay, you surprised me," Carly said. "What did it take to distract you?"

"I don't remember."

"I don't believe it."

"Smart as well as sexy. Damn, I've got it good. What do I do with the cards that are round all the way rather than just at the corners?"

"Divide them into black, gray, or buckskin."

He sorted quickly.

She sat down beside him, booted up her computer, and began recording tentative dates based on the type of stock used to mount various images.

It wasn't until later, much later, that Carly realized he had steered the conversation away from his past.

Again.

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