Hurricane by Cherry Adair

Author:Cherry Adair
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: St. Martin's Press

Fourteen

The phone on the table behind her rang. Her heart did a little jog. News from the Coast Guard officials? Perhaps they’d caught the man? She stretched out and took it off the cradle. “This is Addison.” She mouthed Sorry to Naveen, who didn’t bother hiding his annoyance at the interruption.

Saved by the bell. She hadn’t planned on blurting out anything right now, but words had been on the tip of her tongue. God help me.

“Badri, Miss Addison.” Badri Patil was first mate. “We have Miss Persephone on the ship-to-shore for you. Do you want it connected there?”

Finally. She’d called her sister-in-law as soon as Rydell had left her cabin that morning. Thank God Peri had finally decided to return one of her calls.

“No thanks, Badri, I’ll run down to my cabin. Give me a few minutes.” Pushing back her chair, Addison got to her feet. “Thanks.” At the moment of disconnection she snatched up a slice of bacon. “I’ve been waiting for this call. Don’t let your breakfast get cold waiting for me. I’m not sure how long I’ll be.”

Naveen grabbed her wrist, his mouth a thin angry line. “Finish what you were about to say, Addison. You and Case—what? Fucked last night?”

His vehemence, and the fact that she’d never heard him swear, made her go cold. “Let go. I have to take the call.”

“Did you fuck that son of a bitch behind my back again?” His shackling fingers tightened like a hard vise around her wrist. “Did you?”

Addison wrenched her arm free of his grip. His fingers left red marks on her wrist. “Do not manhandle me, Naveen. I’ll take my call and then we’ll discuss where our futures are going to part ways.”

“Addison!” Naveen called after her as she flew down the outside stairs instead of winding her way through the main room. She ran down the corridor to her cabin just as Fahad, second steward, exited with his arms loaded with sheets and towels. He stepped aside and Addison flashed him a smile before closing the door and racing to pick up the phone on her desk.

“Put her through please, Badri.” There was a click as the line connected. She realized she was shaking from the confrontation with Naveen. It was as if someone else had suddenly invaded his body. She was partially at fault. She hadn’t handled that well, or diplomatically. Naveen was a proud man. She’d left him once for Rydell, and he was astute enough to know she still had unfinished business with her ex. Still, the look on his face had scared her, and him grabbing her like that pissed her off.

They’d have words all right, and he could go ahead to Sydney without her. Addison realized her heart was beating fast, as if she’d encountered danger and only narrowly escaped. Silly.

“Hi Peri?”

Without preamble, and ignoring the fact that the two women hadn’t spoken in months, Peri said, “Ry told you.”

Addison, slice of bacon raised to her mouth, sat down. “Told me what?”

“Shit.

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