Easy Loving by Lynn Sheryl

Author:Lynn, Sheryl [Lynn, Sheryl]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Suspense
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2011-11-26T16:41:44+00:00

W“HERE IN THE WORLD are you?” Trish demanded. Her voice rang high-pitched with concern.

Remembering his appointment with his sister and John Tupper, Easy winced. “I’m at home.”

“I called your place. You didn’t answer. John and I are waiting for you. What’s going on?”

“I had a little…run-in with some unsavory types. I’ll tell you all about it in person.” With the reminder, his side ached. He glared down at the swollen bruise on his hip. He could make out the shape of a steel-reinforced work-boot toe. No-neck, he determined, had better grow eyes in the back of his head.

Carrying the phone, he returned to the bedroom only to find Catherine jerking on her clothing. Her clumsy agitation and her refusal to look at him alarmed him. He’d lost her once because of stupidity, he wasn’t about to make the same mistake twice. He waggled a hand at her, warning her not to go. “Go to the Denny’s across from my office,” he told Trish. “I’ll be there as quick as I can.”

“What kind of run-in? What are you talking about?”

“I’ll tell you when I see you. I won’t be long. I promise. I gotta go.” Without waiting for her reply, he closed the unit, disconnecting the telephone. “Tink, hold on.” With her almost dressed and him buck naked, he felt at a disadvantage. He found his briefs on the floor.

“I have to go home.” Her filmy skirt tangled around her feet and she fell heavily back on the bed.

“You are not running away from me.”

At that her head snapped up and she froze with the skirt halfway up her legs. “I have to go home,” she repeated, each icy word clipped.

He pulled up his underwear. Keeping an eye on her to make sure she didn’t bolt, he opened the closet and reached for a pair of jeans. “We have a lot to discuss.”

“We have nothing to discuss. It’s over. You accomplished your mission. Jeffrey and I are through. Even if I could forgive his lies, I can’t forgive myself for cheating on him. But you and I are through, too. You—”

“Chicken! You’re scared.”

She flinched as if he slapped her. Hot spots marked her cheeks. “I am not scared of you.” She leaped to her feet and jerked the skirt up to her waist. With short, awkward jabs, she tucked in her shirt.

“You’re scared of something. Me, you, who the hell knows. All I know is, you’re not running out on me again.”

Her chin and lower lip trembled. His heart ached for her as he imagined the terrors of being sixteen, alone, pregnant and feeling as if no one loved her, no one cared. Of having to live each day of the past twelve years with the knowledge of losing a child.

“I never ran out on you,” she said in a small, uncertain voice. “You ran out on me. You disappeared. You ran away to join the army and left me all alone.”

“Damn it, Tink, you know I loved you. You know I would have gone to the moon for you.

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