Bed of Lies (The McRae's, Book 3 - Zach) (The McRae's Series) by Teresa Hill

Author:Teresa Hill [Hill, Teresa]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: ePublishing Works!
Published: 2012-05-14T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

The evening went well. Dana didn't let Peter out of her sight, and Peter behaved like an angel in front of her. Never grumbled once and ate like he hadn't been fed in a week. Zach managed to make Julie laugh a little, and he sneaked off into the corner with her a second time and kissed her until he couldn't stand it anymore.

This celibacy idea was nuts, but he was afraid he was too far into it to back down now. Besides, he was right. She would make this about nothing but sex if he let her, and he wasn't going to allow that. But most of all, he still hadn't told her the hardest things. Until he did...

"Zach?" Grace was at the front door putting on her jacket. "You didn't even know I was here, did you?"

"Just thinking about something," he said. "Where are you going?"

"Home. I went down into the basement to work for just a few minutes and got caught up in something, lost track of time."

He frowned. She was doing the whole starving-artist thing rather well, and she lived in a dump, in a neighborhood that wasn't the greatest. He didn't remember seeing her car here earlier. "You were going to walk?"

She nodded. "It's a nice night. And I spend too much time sitting on a stool working. I can use the exercise."

"It's two miles. How about I drive you?"

"How about you walk with me?" she suggested.

"Okay."

He grabbed a jacket himself, knowing instantly he was giving his sister exactly what she wanted—time for the two of them to talk without him running away. Still, it had to be done. She'd want to hear from him what was going on, and he had a hard time staying still while he talked about it anyway. They set off into the darkness and the quiet of the pleasant, cool night. She didn't say anything at first, giving him some time, which he appreciated.

"So, I'm going to see a friend of Emma's," he said finally.

"A friend?"

"Colleague," he clarified.

"Oh. Well... Good. I mean, I guess it's good. If it helps."

"Emma thinks it will. She thinks this is something that can be dealt with."

"Of course."

She said it like she had never even considered it might be something that wasn't fixable. He certainly had.

She went quiet for a minute, then finally asked, "Zach, what did he say to you? When you made me and Emma leave you alone with him—what did he say?"

"It wasn't anything he said, Grace. It was me. The things I said. The things I felt when I saw him." Worse than that, the things he'd done.

"But that's all that's wrong? Because for a while I thought you might be sick with something dreadful you wouldn't tell us about—"

"I'm not sick," he said. Not physically. "And I'm sorry I worried you all. I just... thought I could handle it on my own."

"I never thought you couldn't. It's just that you help all of us all the time. I want to be able to help you for a change.

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