Can't Stop Loving You by Peggy Webb

Author:Peggy Webb
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: the donovans of the delta, theater, famous lovers, romantic comedy, bad boy heroes, southern authors, forever friends series
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

What next? Brick wondered. They couldn’t go back and they couldn’t seem to go forward.

He loved her. There was no question about that. He’d never stopped loving her. But even if he decided to try and win her back, where were the guarantees that she wouldn’t run away again? Admitting why she had run was not the same as saying, I would never make that mistake again.

“Shoot!” He’d buttoned his shirt wrong. Helen was even interfering with his ability to dress. He re-buttoned it and left the room.

As he descended the staircase for lunch he saw Barb waiting for him at the foot of the stairs.

“Hi, Brick.” She laced her arm through his, then leaned closer to whisper, “Everything all right?”

“Everything is just fabulous.”

His smile was an even bigger lie.

Brick Sullivan. Actor.

o0o

Helen forced herself to eat. One bite at a time. When the food wouldn’t go down, she forced it with big drinks of water.

Across the table Brick seemed oblivious to her turmoil. His head was never far from Barb’s; his smile was only for her.

Helen might never have confessed a single thing for all Brick cared.

Well, so be it. She had a life.

Didn’t she?

o0o

The gym at Farnsworth Manor was fully equipped with the best machines money could buy. The exercise machines were in a carpeted area in the center of a track that was a tenth of a mile long. The weights were positioned along a wall of mirrors, and beyond them was a heated pool.

Helen stood on the diving board poised to jump. Matt Rider sat on the edge of the pool with his feet in the water. When Helen dived, he didn’t even get wet.

He gave a satisfied nod. He could take credit for her form and style. He’d been her personal trainer for the last seven years. No other actress he knew had Helen’s stamina. Certainly none of them had her body. She was in tip-top shape, each muscle beautifully sculpted, not one ounce of body fat, not one inch of sag.

“Water feels good, Matt.” Helen bobbed beside him, treading water. “Why don’t you come on in?”

“Nope. I’m saving my strength.”

Helen didn’t inquire why. He liked that about her. She was friendly without being nosy.

He was saving his strength for Barb. Now there was a woman. The experts would have said she had too much fat around her thighs and waist, but Matt was wild about every inch of her. Love handles, she called her slight paunch.

She’d get no argument from him. Content, he watched Helen make another lap of the pool.

“Five more minutes, Helen, then I’ll do the massage.”

“Fifteen, Matt.”

“Ten at the most. I don’t want you to overdo it.”

“Okay.”

She was pushing herself. It didn’t take a genius to guess the cause.

The door at the end of the gym swung open, and the cause walked through. Brick Sullivan paused in the open doorway to assess the situation, then headed straight to the pool.

Helen was making her turn when he mounted the diving board.

“What are you doing here?” She caught the edge of the pool to anchor herself.

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