Fire Dancer by Linsey Lanier

Author:Linsey Lanier [Lanier, Linsey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romantic Suspense
ISBN: 9780989206907
Publisher: Felicity Books
Published: 2014-01-11T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty

By the time she stepped into the tastefully decorated island honeymoon suite with Parker carrying her suitcase behind her, Miranda’s temples were throbbing so hard, she thought her head might erupt and start spewing lava down her face.

It wasn’t just tension or the pounding concussion flaring up. It was anger. A dark, purple rage of fury that was like a rabid leopard clawing her insides, desperate to get out.

Parker set her case in the corner. “Are you sure you want to do this? You’re not fully recovered from—”

She glared at him with a growl. “You chicken, Parker?”

His face went dark. “Not at all.” He moved to the coffee table, pushed it toward the glass doors, then headed for the chocolate-and-rattan sofa. “We should try to find something for gloves.”

She couldn’t wait that long. She had to do something. Taking two long strides, she spun and threw up her leg in a roundhouse kick.

Parker barely had time to snatch a cushion off the couch to pad his chest before her foot landed square against a dark brown palm tree on the fabric with a whoof.

Staggering a bit, he couldn’t help but grin. “You’ve improved since the last time we did this.”

“Yeah, well my fudoshin’s pretty off today.”

That day they had first sparred in the Agency gym, he’d accused her of letting her emotions take over when she fought. Since then, she’d learned to control her feelings, channel them when she needed them. But not today. Today they were as wild as a tsunami. Going with the tide, she came at him again, landed a sharp right jab that bent the palm tree’s fabric fronds into themselves.

Impressed, Parker absorbed the shock and shuffled to the left. “Excellent move.”

His praise used to mean everything to her, but just now it didn’t do a thing to soothe the pain.

Prancing past the sofa to pursue him, she jabbed at the cushion again. “How could he do that? How could he abandon us and start another family?”

Parker held the pillow steady, pivoting away from her. They danced past the chairs, the kitchen area, the hallway, and ended up at the couch again.

Right, left, right. She slugged as hard as she could, but it wasn’t enough. “He went halfway around the globe to get away from me and my mother,” she shouted, still walloping the poor, defenseless cushion.

The tears started now. Angry tears. Outraged tears. She tried to hold them back, but the pain and humiliation washed over her. Like what she used to feel at Leon’s hands.

Suddenly she stopped swinging as a revelation hit her.

Leon had made her feel worthless. Every blow he’d given her had made her feel more and more worthless. For years she’d just let him. She’d done nothing about it. Nothing at all because…she’d been just as worthless to her father.

Well, she thought, wiping her cheek with the back of her hand. Wouldn’t Dr. Wingate be proud of her for coming up with that? But when she remembered her father reaching out, trying to hug her today, she wanted to tear something apart again.

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