Betrayed by Love by Diana Palmer

Author:Diana Palmer [Palmer, Diana]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance, Contemporary, General, Fiction
ISBN: 9780373053919
Publisher: Silhouette Books
Published: 1987-11-01T20:01:21+00:00

"You're reading me wrong, Kate," he said quietly. "I'm not thinking of ways to back out of the invitation."

She flushed. "You seemed uncomfortable about it," she replied.

"I'm uncomfortable about a lot of things lately." He looked and sounded tired. Dead tired. There were dark circles under his eyes and he looked as worn as he felt. All that waiting. Tom hadn't been alone; Jacob had been with him every step of the way.

"You need sleep," she said abruptly.

"Do I?" He stuck his hands in his pockets and stood beside the bed, looking down at her pale, quiet face. "You need it more."

"I don't sleep well," she confessed. "I keep hearing the bullets."

"All the more reason to get out of the city for a while. You can't work for several weeks. You'd probably go crazy in your apartment." He pursed his lips. "Come with me. I'll build you a greenhouse."

Her face went two shades of pink and she stared at him wildly. "What?" she breathed, overcome that he should hit accidentally on the one big dream of her life lately.

"You garden, don't you?" he mused. "You have dozens of books on horticulture. I'll make sure you have a place to practice your hobby while you're recuperating."

It was like a dream coming true. She wanted to be with him, even though she knew it was only guilt that motivated him. To be near him, just to be allowed to sit and look at him, was all of heaven. That, and a greenhouse, too. She had to be dreaming.

"That would be a lot of trouble," she began, trying to be sensible.

"Not particularly," he replied. "I've got the space, and there are a few experiments I'd like to try with new strains of forage grasses."

"Well..."

"You're running out of excuses," he observed.

She sighed, folding her hands. "I'd like to go," she confessed. "But I'll just be in the way, and Janet has enough to do. And Barbara won't like it," she added, avoiding his eyes.

He hadn't seen Barbara Dugan in so long that she was little more than a memory. He blinked. "What does Barbara have to do with it?" he asked curiously.

"Everybody says you'll marry her eventually. Her land adjoins Warlance."

"My God, Kate, so does Billy Kramer's, but I'll be damned if I'd want to marry him for it."

His dry sense of humor was something she'd forgotten during the long antagonism of the years. She was the one person he'd never joked with in recent memory.

"I just don't want to foul up your life," she said doggedly, ignoring the humor.

"As if it isn't pretty fouled up now," he murmured, watching her closely. "You won't cramp my style, Kate, or get in my way. I'll take care of you until you can take care of yourself again."

She was weakening. Her big, soft eyes searched his, vulnerable and frightened.

He moved closer to the bed, his protective instincts aroused and bubbling over. "I won't hurt you again," he said quietly. "I swear to God I won't."

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