Heaven on Earth by Marilyn Pappano

Author:Marilyn Pappano [Pappano, Marilyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-78555-8
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2011-02-22T16:00:00+00:00

IT WAS THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT, AND MELINA WAS having trouble sleeping. She’d made pages and pages of case notes, checked in with Lynda and Ben, watched TV, and read for a while. Her eyes had gotten so weary she couldn’t see straight, so she’d shut off the lights and crawled into bed, and suddenly she was wide awake. Judging by the sounds coming from next door, Sebastian was as restless as she was. At least, she hoped that was the reason he was still awake.

She tried all her tricks to doze off, but when the digital clock on the bedside table rolled over to three-thirty, she threw back the sheet with a sigh and sat up. Shoving her feet into house slippers, she got up, pulled on a terry robe to cover the tank and shorts she slept in, and left the room.

Ten minutes later she was back with a bucket of ice, two cans of Diet Coke, and two candy bars. Balancing everything in her arms, she listened at the connecting door, heard a mutter from the next room, and knocked.

After a moment’s hesitation, Sebastian called, “It’s open.” He sounded grumpy, and she couldn’t really blame him if he was. The past week had been a stressful one, and after the incident outside the park …

She opened the door but didn’t step through. Only the lamp nearest the front door was on inside his room, but it cast enough light for her to see that he was lying in bed, pillows behind his back and covers pulled to his waist, and that he wasn’t wearing anything, at least from there up. It gave more than enough light to see that his hair was tousled and he looked handsome and somehow vulnerable and still sexier than any man she knew, and she knew all the way to her toes that she’d made a mistake in coming to his room. She also knew she couldn’t retreat to save her life … or her heart.

With the remote he shut off the television that had apparently been muted anyway, and then he just looked at her.

A trickle of condensation ran down her arm and soaked into her robe, reminding her of the items she carried. “I come in peace,” she said, aiming for teasing and failing. Taking a deep breath, she forced herself over the threshold and to the bedside table, where she set down each gift as she spoke. “Ice for your knee. Chocolate because it makes everything feel better. Coke to wash the chocolate down. And”—she dug in the pocket of her robe and came out with a pill bottle—“an anti-inflammatory for whatever ails you. It’s over-the-counter, but it’s good stuff.”

He looked from the offerings to her, his expression unchanging. “I don’t like chocolate,” he said at last, “and I’m not really thirsty, and little blue pills aren’t going to do a damn thing for the part of me that’s most inflamed … but I appreciate the thought.”

She felt like crying, and didn’t know why.

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