Destiny by Carly Phillips

Author:Carly Phillips [Phillips, Carly]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance
ISBN: 9781101553831
Publisher: Berkley
Published: 2011-12-31T13:00:00+00:00

Kelly woke up the next morning and Nash was gone, a note on her pillow in his place. The night was as special as you are. See you later. She laid her head down and smelled his masculine scent embedded in her sheets, a reminder of all they’d done last night. Once on the couch, twice in bed. At least they’d slept in between, she thought wryly.

She dressed in nice sweats and sneakers. Though she told herself she was accommodating her work in the dusty back room, she was also accommodating her sore, tired body. Every time she moved, she remembered something else that made her smile. Nash’s hard body entering hers, his masculine scent, his arms wrapped around her as she slept.

She felt closer to him than to anyone before, so close she was beginning to think Annie was right and she needed to level with him about her past and the problems looming in her future.

Annie. Before she headed to the coffee shop this morning, she put in a call to her friend, hoping she’d meet Kelly at Cuppa Café. Though Kelly had spoken to Richard directly only once since his surgery, she liked to check in periodically with his wife or daughter. He was progressing nicely.

But Kelly hadn’t heard from Annie in a few days and she wanted to make sure her friend was holding up under the strain. She also wanted to find out how her date with Joe had gone.

Kelly dialed and the phone rang and rang and rang. She was just about to hang up when she heard Annie’s voice.

“Hello?” Annie asked, sounding as if she’d just been woken from a deep sleep.

“Annie? It’s Kelly. Did I wake you?”

“It’s okay,” she said, the standard answer when you don’t want the person on the other end of the line to feel bad.

“Why don’t you call me back?” Kelly suggested, though she was concerned that Annie was asleep so late in the morning.

“No, I can talk. I just haven’t been feeling well, so I slept in.”

“Is there anything I can do? Bring lunch? Dinner?” Kelly propped a hip against the kitchen counter, already thinking about where she’d go to pick up meals.

“No, thank you, but I have everything I need,” Annie said.

Kelly narrowed her gaze, wondering if Annie would exaggerate just so she wouldn’t be a burden. “How are you taking care of yourself?”

Kelly knew Annie’s mother must be busy at the hospital with Richard, and from the sound of her voice Annie was too weak to do much for herself.

Annie remained silent for a second, but the answer had dawned on Kelly as soon as she’d voiced the question. “Joe’s over, isn’t he?” Kelly asked.

Annie sighed. “Not right now, he isn’t.”

“But he’s the one coming by and helping you!”

“How did you know?” Annie asked, sounding brighter if still weak.

“Umm…” Kelly bit the inside of her cheek. “I was going to mention this to you at some point, just so you had a heads-up. Nash had a gut feeling something was wrong, so he drove by your house early yesterday.

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