Dying for Love by Cara Putman

Author:Cara Putman [Putman, Cara]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Whisper Valley Press

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The days passed with no leads. Dignitaries and others packed Judge Banter’s funeral when it was finally held two weeks later, but Ciara sat in the church alone. She tried not to search the crowd for David, but couldn’t keep her gaze from traveling to the other side of the sanctuary where he sat. Then he stood and made his way to the front to give one of the eulogies. Tears collected in her throat as she listened to him recount the virtues of a man who gave them both a singular experience at a pivotal time in their careers. As he spoke, his eyes sought hers, and she felt mesmerized by the intensity in his. It felt as if a silent plea to understand who he was traveled across the chasm that separated them. The moment the service ended, she stood and skedaddled to her car, still shaken by what had passed between them.

She sank into her car, then locked the door. The keys remained tightly in her grasp as she tried to understand what had happened.

What was left to know? They were too different.

No matter how much she felt the jolt of physical attraction each time they shared space in a building, she couldn’t open her heart to the possibility that something could happen between them.

That night she pulled on a pair of yoga pants, a fitted t-shirt, and scooped her hair back with a stretchy headband. She brewed a cup of tea and settled onto the loveseat.

Any other night she’d find herself absorbed in the novel she’d started by her favorite suspense writer, but she couldn’t get lost in the plot and pages.

She set the book aside. Was she wrong? She didn’t like the thought. She prided herself on reading people well. That’s what had stung with David. She’d been so mistaken about him. Right or wrong, she had to reach a resolution she could live with. Soon she’d find herself back at a table next to his in one of the area’s courtrooms. They’d sit on opposite sides of a family crisis, and she had to find a way to live with that. She’d rather not be bothered by his presence at all, but for the moment she’d settle with not falling to distraction when she saw him.

Was that too much to ask?

The curtain fluttered against the back of her neck, bringing a kiss of goose bumps.

She picked up her cell phone and slid to the calendar. Colored blocks filled the next week, a dizzying mix of client meetings and hearings. Three involved David.

She set the phone down and wondered if she could express a desperate need for vacation time, one that would buy her time away from the firm and her clients. Even a week might help. She could claim the chaos of the prior weeks as evidence that her life hadn’t filled normal parameters, and any woman would need a few days, maybe a few weeks, to reorient herself to the idea that she’d found the body of her mentor.

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