For Richer or Poorer by Joann Ross

Author:Joann Ross
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781459286276
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 1995-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

8

BLYTHE WAS IN MAUI. Gage paced the floor of his Miami hotel room and told himself that he shouldn’t be surprised. After all, if that earthquake hadn’t struck, she’d already be on her honeymoon.

He told himself that he had no reason to be angry. Reminded himself that he had no business feeling so possessive. But that didn’t stop him from calling.

The phone rang and rang. Gage was just about ready to hang up when Blythe answered. “Hello?”

When he heard her breathless voice, a jolt of something that could only be jealousy shot through him. You’re losing it, pal, he told himself.

“Did I interrupt something?” he asked gruffly.

She hesitated, as if surprised by the stern, no-nonsense-cop tone he’d pulled out to conceal the fact that the lady was driving him crazy.

“The phone was ringing when I was coming down the hall,” she answered. “I had to run to catch it.”

He immediately felt like an ass. He was also unreasonably relieved to learn that she hadn’t been engaged in passionate pursuits with her fiancé. “I’m sorry to be interrupting your vacation,” he lied.

“Oh, it’s no interruption.” Her tone was warm and friendly. And, although he told himself he was only imagining it, Gage thought she sounded glad to hear from him. “To tell the truth, I’ve been getting a little bored.”

“Already?” What the hell was the matter with Alan Sturgess anyway? Gage knew that if he had this woman all to himself on some tropical island, boredom would not be a problem.

Her laugh was as bright as Hawaiian sunshine. As breezy as tropical winds. “I think I’ve forgotten how to relax. Alan says I’m a workaholic.”

“So where is the doc, anyway?”

“He visited a hospital this morning. This afternoon he’s playing golf with some of the doctors he met there.”

The man was definitely a fool. Sturgess didn’t deserve her, Gage decided. Which didn’t mean that he did.

“I was lying by the pool, trying to read,” she continued when he didn’t respond. “But I couldn’t stop thinking about Alexandra and Patrick. And wondering how you were doing in Miami.”

“Other than being in danger of overdosing on art deco, I’m okay. But I did track down some old guy in one of those retirement condos who remembers Alexandra’s early days in Cuba. Before Stern brought her to Hollywood.”

“He knew her then?”

“Intimately, if the guy can be believed. And if my instincts haven’t gotten totally out of whack since leaving the force, I think he’s telling the truth.”

“So what does he say?”

Gage spent the next ten minutes filling her in on the less than pristine details of Alexandra’s allegedly checkered past. Including the allegation that she was not, as Xanadu’s publicity department had stated at the time, a member of the Russian royal family. Neither, if the eighty-year-old gambler could be trusted, had she merely been modeling swimsuits in that Havana casino prior to her screen debut.

“Alexandra was a call girl?”

Knowing that Blythe had gotten emotionally involved in Alexandra’s story, Gage understood her disappointment. “It seems so.

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