Fast & Loose by Elizabeth Bevarly

Author:Elizabeth Bevarly [Bevarly, Elizabeth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Kentucky Derby
ISBN: 9780739494813
Google: 3oRgPwAACAAJ
Amazon: 0425220850
Publisher: Berkley
Published: 2007-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

TWENTY MINUTES AFTER PULLING TO A STOP AT THE end of her block, Lulu was still sitting in her car, trying to work up the nerve to approach her own house. She felt ridiculous in the extreme. There was obviously no one home, and even if there was, it was her home. She had a key and everything. Which she would use. So it wouldn’t be breaking in. It wouldn’t even be illegal entry, since she was the owner of the house. All it would be was a violation of the contract she signed for Eddie. That was only unethical. And Lulu had been unethical lots of times.

Well, okay, maybe she’d only been unethical once or twice. And maybe it had never been on purpose. That would be good when she appeared before the judge, right?

Stop it, she told herself. She wasn’t going to get arrested for this. She would just pop in to her own home and see if everything was okay. Make sure Cole Early hadn’t, at best, broken anything or, at worst, trashed the place. Make sure he hadn’t been doing anything he shouldn’t. Make sure there weren’t any, oh, say…drunken debutantes passed out on the sofa. Or any, oh, say…empty liquor bottles strewn about the floors. Or any, oh, say…illegal drug paraphernalia clogging the pipes. Or any, oh, say…appalling—if somewhat interesting—sex toys stuffed under the bed.

Enough, Lulu, she told herself. Let’s just get this over with.

As quietly as she could, she opened her car door and exited, making her way down the uneven sidewalk the way she had a million times before when finishing up her evening walk. Automatically, she sidestepped the gaping crack in front of Mrs. Krautheim’s house and the spot where the root of Mr. Leonard’s sycamore had buckled the concrete. She slowed her pace as she approached her little bungalow, having never really paid attention to it from outside in the dark before.

Cole Early had left on the same light in the living room she generally switched on at night herself, and something about that heartened Lulu. As she drew nearer, she saw that he’d left on a light in the kitchen, too, the one over the stove that she left on when she knew she would be out after dark. From where she stood, all was calm and bright, the house glowing cozily in the pitch-black night.

She told herself she should be satisfied with that, that Cole Early didn’t appear to have done anything too horrible to her house…yet. But even though she could see a bit of the living room through the windows, and it appeared to be as tidy as she left it, she couldn’t quite bring herself to leave without going inside.

She’d just take a little peek, she told herself. Just buzz through the house to make a quick survey and reassure herself that all was well. It would only be a few minutes. And Cole Early would never know. Her desire to go into the house had nothing to do with her curiosity about him that had been growing ever since she met him.

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