Body Language by Suzanne Brockmann

Author:Suzanne Brockmann
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction
ISBN: 9780553905113
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2009-01-12T05:00:00+00:00

The phone rang. It was quarter to four in the morning, and the phone was ringing. Sandy groped for it in the darkness. “Hello?”

“Yo.” It was McCade. “Sandy, baby, you still awake?”

It was McCade and he had clearly had too much to drink.

“I am now.” She turned on the light. “Where are you?”

“Where the hell am I?” she heard him ask someone. She could hear bar sounds in the background—distorted country music and the unmistakable relentless ringing of a pinball machine. “The corner of Van Buren and Vine,” he repeated for her benefit. “I’m in a real dive of a roadhouse called the Cactus Ranch. What the hell is a cactus ranch anyway?”

Sandy could hear a good-natured voice on the other end, but couldn’t make out the words. Whatever the man had said, it made McCade laugh. “Shut up, Peter,” she heard him say. “My pal Peter, the bartender, took my damn keys,” he said to her. “He won’t let me drive home and this dump is closing in less than an hour. I don’t have enough money for a taxi, and Peter won’t give me an advance on any of my credit cards. He says they don’t take plastic here. I need you desperately, baby. Come and save me.”

Baby? That was the second time he’d called her that. “Just let me throw on some clothes and—”

“But I like what you’re wearing right now.” McCade lowered his voice. “It’s very sexy. Did you know that when you’re backlit, I can see right through that nightgown?”

God, no, she didn’t know that. She managed to keep her voice steady as she pulled on a pair of jeans. “Van Buren and Vine. I’ll be right over.”

“Hey, Sandy?”

“What, McCade?”

“Don’t tell Peter, but he’s right. I’m a little drunk.”

“A little,” she agreed.

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