Healing Touch: Play Doctor, Book 2 by Jayne Rylon

Author:Jayne Rylon
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Samhain Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2012-12-03T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

Luke couldn’t stand another second of the Brielle-mandated solitude. He swung one leg over his bike and unclipped his helmet. He’d given her time to calm down. To think. To sort through what had happened on her own.

Eleven o’clock at night—yet she still hadn’t relented and called him as he’d hoped.

Damn it, he had a sweet craving.

For the millionth time this hour, he pressed Redial. Two short bursts before Brielle’s voice mail kicked on assured him that she hadn’t bothered to listen to the messages he’d left her periodically this afternoon.

Whether intentionally or not, he must really have hurt her for her to hold out so long. He’d assumed full responsibility. He should never have given her his phone. Not with all the old data in there. In fact, after she left, he’d scoured his address book, deleting every single one of his just-for-fun lovers. Talk about a statement. His attitudes had changed overnight. Or over lunch, last weekend.

He paused by the wildflower beds and plucked a daisy from the bunch. A cheery flower for a bright young woman. For an unsteady heartbeat or twelve, he considered playing She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not until he realized it would destroy the whole thing.

Maybe it was better not to know, and to simply enjoy what he could, while he could.

Yes, he had to follow his gut. The damn thing screamed for him to go to her. Stubborn, she’d rather prove she was terrified by preparing for a siege than admit—to herself or to him—she might have made a mistake, as if he cared either way. After her cheating ex, he didn’t blame her for jumping to conclusions.

Even incorrect ones.

Luke gathered every bit of his legendary patience and the talents he’d honed over a decade of practicing active-listening techniques. He couldn’t stand to fuck this up the time it mattered most. The problem was that staying impartial would be impossible when he really wanted to toss her over his lap and spank her for assuming the worst.

Somehow he figured that might be the wrong approach.

He glanced up at her window, the only one that had been bright a few nights ago. The lights were on, and just then a figure passed in front of the pane. The hazy silhouette wasn’t much to go on but he could tell. It was her.

Brielle.

Stairs passed beneath him in a blur as he charged up to her place. In his haste, Luke nearly knocked over a scruffy dude hanging out on the second-floor landing.

“Watch it, fucker.”

“Sorry, man.” Luke held his hands out. Preoccupied with Brielle so close and yet so far away, he didn’t bother to question why the guy was loitering. He skirted the ill-tempered man and headed up the next flight of stairs.

With Brielle’s door looming in front of him, he restrained himself, managing to impart a very timid knock. Well, it came out sort of normal. At least it wasn’t the pounding he might otherwise have launched.

It didn’t surprise him when she refused to answer.

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