Erin Quinn by Haunting Beauty

Author:Haunting Beauty
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 0100-12-31T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nineteen

“WHY should he care who my fucking father is?” Sean snarled as they walked away. “What did he say to you? Do I need to go back and teach him some manners?”

“No,” Danni said hastily, catching the anger glinting in Sean’s eyes. “He was very polite and nice.”

Sean made a derogatory sound. He looked tired and dirty, and his face was flushed from the wind and sun, though there’d been a layer of clouds for most of the day. She wondered at that—at his burning under the watery rays. He’d been a spirit until yesterday morning and his skin hadn’t seen the sun since . . .

It boggled her mind, thinking of that, of them really being here, twenty years ago. Meeting themselves in a parallel time before their lives would be changed forever. It was the stuff of movies and science fiction novels.

“I’m to believe he didn’t say a thing about me, then?”

“He wanted to know how long we’d been married.”

“Why?”

“I don’t know. But earlier when Fia told him my last name, he just got . . . curious I guess. It seemed to set him off. Are there bad feelings between your family and his . . . mine?”

Sean glanced at her from the corner of his eyes. “You could say that.”

“But you said my father sent you to get me.”

“I never did.”

“You certainly implied it, and you know that’s what I thought. That’s as good as a lie.” When Sean didn’t answer, only continued to walk with his eyes staring stiffly at the ground, Danni asked quietly, “Is anything you told me true?”

He stopped in the middle of the path and faced her, taking her shoulders roughly between his big hands. “I came for you,” he said, but his tone made it clear he wasn’t happy about it. “That much was true.”

She swallowed hard, feeling anger and betrayal mix into her confusion. A part of her reasoned that Sean couldn’t be expected to tell the whole truth about why he came to her house that morning. Chances were good that he didn’t know himself.

But she couldn’t deal with the lies—not from Sean. They were in this together, and she needed to know that she could trust him. Depend on him.

He’s a ghost, Danni. And your being here is impossible . . .

She shook her head. Impossible had become quite the norm lately.

“I came for you,” he repeated, this time with less anger.

The grip he had on her shoulders eased, and his fingers moved in a gentle caress. It would be easy to let it go, to lean against the solid warmth of his broad chest, let those strong arms wrap around her. But Danni knew better than anyone that easy rarely meant good.

She pulled out of his hands and started walking again. “Well, next time you come for someone, make it someone else,” she retorted over her shoulder.

He mumbled a response she didn’t have to hear to understand. He was pissed off again. Well, so was she.

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