Half Moon Bay by Meryl Sawyer

Author:Meryl Sawyer
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781504027199
Publisher: Open Road Media Romance

Chapter 19

They all tossed the lavender roses into the sea just as the sun, a molten red, slipped into the sea, leaving the water glazed with golden light.

“To Trevor’s mother,” Clive said, taking up where she’d left off. “May she rest in peace.”

“We thank her for giving us Trevor,” Matt added. “A wonderful person and a true friend.”

There might have been a hint of moisture in Matt’s eyes—or maybe it was just her imagination. Clive was teary-eyed, and Trevor made no attempt to hide his tears of grief.

Tears dribbled down her cheeks and sluiced off her chin. “Good-bye, Mother,” she whispered under her breath, realizing this service had brought her own feelings about death to the surface. “Character does determine fate. I’m going to get Dexxter just as soon as I can.”

She held up her right hand. The fingers were still curved inward, and trying to straighten them only caused her to wince with pain. She couldn’t scream and she couldn’t use her right hand. Great. She had better come up with a doozy of a plan for getting Dexxter Foxx.

“Hey, Shelly.” Matt put his arm around her and pulled her close. “Don’t cry.”

She wiped her face with the back of her hand and mustered a smile. “It went all right, didn’t it?”

He gave her a quick hug and kissed her forehead. “You were great. Let’s give them a chance to be alone.”

Trevor and Clive sat at the back of the small boat, talking quietly. She sat on the bench behind the wheel, while Matt hoisted the anchor. The boat glided out of the shallow water and into the channel. A crescent moon rode high in a velvet black sky, and crystal-bright shards of stars glinted down at them.

How romantic, she thought with an inward sigh. Matt put his arm around her, a casual gesture, but to her it seemed intimate, seductive. Watch out, she warned herself.

Given the way he’d kissed her and caressed her breasts, Matt would be making love to her if she weren’t very careful. Then he would discover she wasn’t Rochelle Ralston. For a moment she toyed with the idea of confessing the truth.

An image flashed across her mind: The thunderous roar and the blast that knocked her to her knees. Dexxter hadn’t hesitated to have a federal marshal killed. If she involved Matt and Trevor, no telling what might happen to them.

“You’re awfully quiet,” he said. “What are you thinking about?”

She said the first thing that popped into her mind. “Chocolate.”

He smiled that adorable smile, telling her he was up to something. “Right. Chocolate body paint. I brush it on you, then lick it off, right?”

The powerful image of his mouth on her bare skin evoked the memory of the way he’d kissed her earlier that day. Suddenly, her knees seemed weak and she was glad to be sitting. Think like a bad girl, she told herself. “Yeah, right, Jensen. The last thing I need is body paint.”

“Don’t knock it until you’ve tried it.”

“Don’t forget I’m a psychopath,” she reminded him.

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