Destiny's Chance by Cara Bristol

Author:Cara Bristol [Bristol, Cara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Cara Bristol
Published: 2016-07-23T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Laura’s disappearance had not escaped her parents’ notice. They exchanged whispers and annoyed glances. However, Chance used the absence, the space, to collect his thoughts.

An insane, impossible but insistent idea pecked at his brain.

What if Zoe was Destiny? Or Destiny was Zoe? Whatever. What if the essence of Destiny Grable had survived the accident and existed in the body of Zoe Richards? Was that what she’d been trying to tell him when she’d raised the subject of reincarnation?

Roman scoffed at his hunches, but Chance had sensed a difference the moment he’d entered the hospital room to visit the woman wearing the RICHARDS, ZOE wristband. Then more tangible disparities appeared: the changes in diet including the love of Mexican food, the cooking, the different way she dressed, that she didn’t seem to know her way around the condo she’d lived in for six months.

Then the song Laura had had the flautist play. “My Heart Will Go On.” “Zoe” had whistled it in bed that one night and raised the subject of the afterlife.

But mostly it was Destiny’s sister’s behavior that gave credence to what had only been a wild and crazy imagining. She had barreled down the aisle, her relief and joy palpable at seeing Zoe. Then she’d whisked her away. Laura, who he’d heard had serious psychic powers, believed Zoe was Destiny. That he was sure of.

He spotted the girls in the distance. Hands on his knees, he drummed a rhythm. To speak up or not to speak up?

His emotions knotted like a tangled mess of fishing lures, pricking at his conscience with every attempt to shake them loose. He had cared for Zoe. He wished he could bring her back, but if a reversal of events were possible, he would have ended the relationship long ago. He’d often wondered if he and Destiny could have had something together. But would she want him if she knew about his secret little kink? Could she handle having her ass warmed?

That assumed she was Destiny. Maybe he and Laura were both wrong, and the behavioral changes represented Zoe’s attempts to rekindle a dead relationship or at least to buy time until she could get settled. He’d been adamant she get her own place. Perhaps her feelings for him ran deeper than he’d thought. And if that were so, but she had changed, did he want her back?

He didn’t know anymore. Didn’t know what he wanted, who he wanted, or even who was who.

But he couldn’t shake the idea, the vision, of Destiny staring at him through Zoe’s eyes in bed the other night. He’d kept his distance since, hadn’t touched her other than accidentally. He desired her. God, he desired her. His need had grown with every passing day until it was all he could do to keep his hands to himself, but he had to figure out who he would be touching first.

He would be wrong to mislead Zoe if she harbored feelings for him or to lead Destiny astray, to engage her without her knowing what she’d be getting into.

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