Harlequin Dare April 2019 Box Set by Jackie Ashenden

Author:Jackie Ashenden
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2019-03-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT

HOPE WOULDN’T LET him walk away. Not this time.

She flung open the door and almost ran into his back. ‘Please come back inside so we can talk.’

‘Nothing to say.’ His gravelly voice hinted at a world of pain. Pain she’d caused. ‘I’m calling a cab.’

‘You’re more like your dad than you know,’ she said, reaching for the lowest blow in her arsenal to get him to stay. ‘You’re a quitter. How many times does this make that you’ve walked away from me when things get tough?’

He spun around so fast she stumbled back and would’ve fallen if he hadn’t steadied her. ‘I’m no fucking quitter.’

‘Prove it.’

She tilted her head up, daring him to follow her back inside.

‘Fuck,’ he muttered, releasing her so she could open the door wider.

‘After you,’ she said, with exaggerated sweetness as he barged past her.

As she closed the door and studied his rigid shoulders from behind, she realised she’d never met a more infuriating man—and that was one of the things she loved about him. He challenged her. He infuriated her. He confounded her. But she couldn’t let that derail her from what needed to be said.

He’d asked her to go away with him, to hit the road like some gypsy. And, while her heart longed to take the plunge and see what kind of an adventure that could bring, she couldn’t do it.

If it was in his DNA to run, it was in hers to prove her independence no matter what the cost.

‘Logan, look at me.’ She approached him carefully and held out her hand, as if confronting a wary dog.

This time, when he turned to face her, she saw his anger had given way to hurt. Bewilderment. As if he couldn’t fathom how she’d turn him down.

Damn it, she had to make him understand this had nothing to do with him and everything to do with her own insecurities.

‘I want you too.’ Her hand dropped to her side. ‘I’ve been miserable without you.’ She gave a self-deprecating snort. ‘Heck, I couldn’t even write a song without you around, that’s how crazy I am about you. But I can’t put all my faith in you and walk away from my dream, and that’s what you’re asking me to do.’

A spark of hope flared in his eyes. ‘But you can write songs anywhere. Play in pubs and clubs. Get your work out there first-hand—’

‘Stop.’ She shook her head, hating that he had this all figured out in his head and that she’d have to stomp on his dream in order to get hers. ‘This isn’t just about me. I want to foster talent, get unknown artists the recognition they deserve, and to do that I have to be here, in Melbourne, in my new studio. Surely you can understand that?’

He seemed to deflate before her eyes, his shoulders slumping as he thrust his hands into his pockets. ‘I understand that your work is as important to you as mine is to me. But I have to be on the road.

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