Fallen From Grace by Laura Leone

Author:Laura Leone [Leone, Laura]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Adult, Contemporary
ISBN: 9781410401816
Google: TgQEAAAACAAJ
Amazon: B004LLIIGW
Goodreads: 1531433
Publisher: Thorndike Pr
Published: 2003-01-01T08:00:00+00:00

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CHAPTER ELEVEN

Now he was avoiding her.

Sara sighed despondently and stared at the blinking cursor on her computer screen.

When she'd been miserable in her day job… When her comfortable but unsatisfying relationship with her boyfriend, Nathan, had ended after two years… When her mother was dying… Sara had coped with those hard times by throwing herself into her work and disappearing into the world of her novels. Immersing herself in the fiction she created, and which often controlled her as much as she controlled it. Writing was not only Sara's passion and her obsession, it had also been a solace to her in times of grief. It was a healthy, satisfying, productive means of exorcising her demons and focusing her energy when the rest of her life was going to hell.

And now, when she needed her concentration so much, when her career was on the line, when her very identity as a writer was in question… She had produced a grand total of two paragraphs all day. And they were both crap. She'd probably have to scrap them.

Damn Ryan!

The one good thing she could say about his behavior lately was that it had taken her mind off being dumped by her literary agent last week.

Sara peered into her coffee cup, saw nothing but congealed dregs there, and scowled.

Ryan had been so sweet, so supportive, and so intelligent in his reaction to her agent dumping her. How could he be such a comfort to her sometimes, and drive her so nuts at other times?

Ever since bringing her home from the bar so he could take Macy for his walk that evening, he'd been ducking her company. When he couldn't avoid her, he kept the conversation superficial. This had been going on for five days now.

How could he tell her such personal things… and then behave since then as if none of that had occurred between them?

She wondered if her reaction had hurt him, if she'd offended or distressed him that evening in the bar. She'd tried to broach the subject since then, but—on the rare occasions when he deigned to be in her company—he kept shifting the conversation, evading the topic, and avoiding another serious discussion.

How could he do this to her?

Sara wiped some dust off her monitor, realized she'd have to do some cleaning before her housewarming party on Saturday, and went into the kitchen.

Ryan was intuitive, intelligent, sensitive, kind, funny, attractive, and personable. Sara thought that he was surely the strongest and bravest person she'd ever known, and she could scarcely imagine how resourceful he'd needed to be to survive the challenges he'd encountered as a boy.

How could a man like that think he had nothing better to do with his life than prostitution?

Whenever she was with him, she felt simultaneously more excited and more comfortable than she'd ever felt with anyone in her life. Didn't he feel it, too? And if he did, how could he simply trot off to more dinner dates and sexual encounters with

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