Dancer of Truths by Kathia

Author:Kathia
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Firelight & Fairy Dust Unlimited Inc.
Published: 2021-01-12T08:00:00+00:00

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“Tell me about the day you broke your leg,” Dermot said out of nowhere.

Lynne stopped looking at the papers Dermot’s lawyers had sent her, spread all across the kitchen table where they’d set up office, and looked at him. “Excuse me?”

“You heard me.” He leaned back on the padded chair he sat on, ankle propped on knee. “Tell me about that day when you fell down the stairs.”

“I’m surprised Abby hasn’t told you.”

“She has, but I want to hear it from your perspective.”

She shuddered. “I try not to think about that day at all.”

“Maybe that’s the problem. Maybe you need to.”

“With some things, the less you give them voice, the less power they have,” she said.

She could see him thinking about that. She wasn’t surprised when he shook his head and said, “I don’t agree. Give yourself voice to express them and they won’t have a hold on you.”

Frowning, she churned that over. “You really believe that?”

“Yes.”

She looked at the paperwork laid out in front of her: corporation papers, the deed for the house, some boilerplates to use for employees, a marketing plan they’d started working on together, as well as some résumés for dancers.

A masculine arm swept all the papers aside.

Gasping, she looked up at Dermot.

He pulled her chair to angle her toward him. Then he leaned forward, his elbows on his knees with his hands steepled between them. “Madelynne, you can’t heal what you won’t talk about.”

She gaped at him. “What did you say?”

“Are you having trouble hearing me, or do you just not want to?” he asked with a slight smile. “I said you can’t heal what you won’t talk about.”

“That’s what Bro Paul said,” she murmured.

“Paul makes the rounds, doesn’t he?”

She grabbed his knee. “You’ve heard him too?”

“He’s vociferous,” was all Dermot said.

She realized she was gripping his thigh, and she abruptly let it go, laughing a little to cover up her embarrassment. Geez, she’d practically groped him, and just because he’d admitted he heard Bro Paul. But Dermot was the most levelheaded person she’d ever met, and if he heard Bro Paul too, she couldn’t be that crazy.

“So are you going to tell me about that day?” Dermot said.

She made a face at him. “You’re relentless, you know that?”

“I care.”

With that, he disarmed her. She wilted in her seat, staring at him helplessly. But would he still care when he heard the story?

Bro Paul suddenly appeared, right behind Dermot. “In for a penny, in for a pound.”

Dermot looked over his shoulder. “I’ve got this.”

Bro Paul looked surprised, and then he grinned, big and pleased. Laughing from his belly, he clapped Dermot on the shoulder. “That’s my boy.”

And then he was gone.

“Madelynne?” Dermot prompted, turning his attention back to her.

“I can’t believe that just happened,” she said, glancing at where Bro Paul had been standing.

“Tell me about that day.”

She sighed, holding on to her necklace. “I asked Kevin to move in with me right after we met. He seemed like such a catch, handsome and successful, and he worked for a nonprofit organization for orphans.

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