Cavanaugh Watch by Marie Ferrarella

Author:Marie Ferrarella [Unknown]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2012-01-16T06:22:10+00:00

Chapter 10

By the time they reached her door, they were close to drenched. The sky had just opened up and poured.

As she raced for her door and shelter, Janelle couldn’t help thinking that this rain was a metaphor for her life. The forecast had made no mention of rain and the sky had been clear all day.

The downpour had come out of nowhere. Just like her father’s revelation.

Her father. What did she call him now? Brian? Chief? He wasn’t real y her dad anymore. And yet, in the truest sense of the word, in the truest spirit, he really was.

Damn, she had never been this confused in her entire life.

After getting the door open, she walked in and immediately flipped on the light switch. Without thinking, she shook her head, sending raindrops flying from her hair.

“I’ll get a towel,” she volunteered as she hurried over to the small linen closet just outside her bedroom door.

Sawyer shucked his jacket and threw it over the back of the closest kitchen chair. His jeans adhered to him like a second skin. “Make it a big one.”

It took her a second to realize what he was saying. Of course, she hadn’t meant they’d be making use of the same towel at the same time.

“I’ll get two towels,” she corrected. Once she pulled them out, she crossed back to him and handed Sawyer a large, light blue bath towel. “You should have gone to your car,” she told him as she rubbed the towel against her hair.

Sawyer did what he could with the towel, but it was clear they were both going to have to change their clothes. He looked over toward her, trying not to notice that her blouse became transparent when wet.

“Don’t like me dripping on your rug?”

“It’s not that.” She rubbed the towel against her face, then retired it. “But you could be on your way home by now.”

He had a change of clothes here, and there was no reason for him to leave tonight. He supposed that she was too upset to see the situation logically. “Nothing at home that won’t keep.” Finished for now, Sawyer draped the towel around his neck, wrapping his fingers around the ends. It amazed him how wet they’d gotten in just a short hundred yards. Especial y her. Janelle’s clothing was sticking to her torso in ways that fired a man’s imagination. He would have been less than human not to notice. And superhuman if it didn’t affect him.

He allowed himself a moment, then raised his eyes to hers. “I’d better change into something dry. You, too,” he advised.

She shrugged. Right now, it was all she could do to concentrate on breathing. Anything else seemed like too much of an effort. It took several seconds for her brain to catch up and process what he’d just said. Sawyer was going to change clothes. But he’d only get them wet again when he went to his car.

The light dawned. “Aren’t you going home?”

He looked at her patiently, an adult allowing a child to prattle on.

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