Black Hills (2009) by Roberts Nora

Author:Roberts, Nora [Nora, Roberts,]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-03-26T22:16:14+00:00

"It's a long one. Jesus, Coop, it's good to see you."

"And I have to give you a job before you come out. Have you been around?"

"Yeah, your lady gave me the tour."

Lil opened her mouth, then shut it. No point in breaking up the re union by pointing out she wasn't Coop's "lady."

"You'll have to excuse me. It's feeding time."

"Seriously?" Brad asked.

He looked like a kid, she thought, who'd just been shown the biggest cookie in the jar. "Why don't I get you both a beer, and you can watch the show?"

Brad rocked on his heels as Lil walked away. "She's sexier than her picture."

"It was an old picture."

"Seeing her in the flesh, I'd say the chances of you coming back to New York are slim to none."

"They started out slim to none, and she wasn't why I moved here."

"Maybe not, but I haven't seen many better reasons to stay." Brad looked over the habitats, up to the hills. "Hell of a long way from New York."

"How long can you stay?"

"I've got to fly back tonight, so we'll have to keep it to the one beer. I had to shuffle some things to get out here today. But I'll draw up a couple of options in the next day or two. I'll get them to you, and I'll make sure I'm back when we do the install. We'll lock it down for you, Coop."

"I'm counting on it."

Lil stayed busy, and out of Coop's way. Old friends, to her way of thinking, needed time to catch up.

She and Coop had been friends once. Maybe they could be again.

Maybe this pang she felt was just missing him, just missing her friend.

If they couldn't go back, they could move forward. It seemed he was making the effort, so how could she do less?

She finished up in her office just as Coop walked in. "Brad had to go.

He said to tell you goodbye, and he'd have plans for you to look over within the next few days."

"Well. For a day that started out as bad as this one, it's ending well. I just got off the phone with Tansy. Cleo is as advertised. Gorgeous, healthy, and she'll be ready to travel tomorrow. Cooper, Brad said he'd be doing the security system at cost."

"Yeah, that's the deal."

"We should all have such generous friends."

"He likes to think he owes me. I like to let him."

"My IOUs are piling up in your hat."

"No they're not. I don't want an accounting." Irritation darkened his face as he took another step toward her desk. "You were the best friend I ever had. For a good part of my life you were one of the few people I could trust or count on. It made a difference to me. In me. Don't," he said when her eyes welled.

"I won't." But she rose and walked to the window to look out until she had control. "You made a difference, too. I've missed you, missed having you for a friend. And here you are.

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