Austin by Linda Lael Miller

Author:Linda Lael Miller [Miller, Linda Lael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, contemporary, Adult, Modern
ISBN: 9780373774463
Goodreads: 7069564
Publisher: HQN
Published: 2010-06-29T00:00:00+00:00

AUSTIN SLEPT. And he slept. And then he slept some more.

He got up to use the bathroom, even gulped down a mug of soup Paige had fixed for him at one point, but he always tumbled straight back into slumber as soon as his head hit the pillow.

“How’s Shep?” he would ask whenever he happened to wake up. “How’s Molly?”

Each time, Paige was quick to answer that both animals were faring well—Ron Strivens took very good care of Molly and Shep was really on the mend, now that he could stay put on his blanket pile for hours at a time, recuperating, instead of wearing himself out keeping up with his master.

Biding her time, Paige sat in a rocking chair Tate brought in from the kitchen, reading, surfing the Internet on her laptop and trying, without much success, to knit a scarf. To the casual observer, she probably looked calm and proficient and relaxed—the private nurse on duty, well trained. In control.

Oh, it was true enough that she wasn’t worried about Austin, though both Tate and Garrett had expressed concern about his protracted slumber. She knew he had simply used up his physical reserves—which must have been formidable—and his body, programmed to survive, had overridden the incessant demands of his mind, basically shutting down for repairs.

No, what troubled Paige was not Austin’s condition, but her own.

She was losing her objectivity.

What started out as a Web search for a decent bridesmaid’s dress, for instance, morphed into a fascination with the endless array of wedding gowns pictured online.

Paige nervously—and privately—attributed this odd obsession to the fact that both her sisters were about to get married. Somewhere inside, she was still that little girl who trailed after them, wanting to do what they did.

Maybe she felt a little left out.

When Libby got her driver’s license, and Julie a year later, Paige had ached for her turn at the wheel of the family car.

When Libby had her waist-length hair cut short, as a junior in high school, Paige, lacking sufficient funds for a visit to the Curly-Girly Salon, had taken a pair of pinking shears to her own tresses.

She and Julie had fought constantly because she was always “borrowing” something black and dramatic from Julie’s closet.

And the list went on.

Still, Paige reasoned, looking at bridal gowns was a harmless enough pursuit, wasn’t it?

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