I Still Do 02 - Runaway Bride Returns! by Christie Ridgway

Author:Christie Ridgway
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Women Librarians, Contemporary, Fiction, Romance, Fire Fighters, General
ISBN: 9780263216141
Publisher: Silhouette
Published: 2009-04-30T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

O wen sat on the edge of the made-up bed to pull on his clothes after his shower. He’d woken alone, but there was the smell of coffee rising up the stairs and a note left on the pillow where Izzy had lain.

It was composed of a single word—a Dui-esque THNX.

It made him smile to look at it, and to think of what had passed between them, when together they’d transformed the cold darkness of his nightmare into the velvet cocoon of shared sexual pleasure. First thing this morning, he needed to convey a “THNX” of his own. She’d been what he’d needed the night before, and this morning he could revel in a sense of well-being he hadn’t experienced since before the night of the fire.

He felt like himself again, the laid-back, calm-in-a-crisis, impervious-to-pressure Owen Marston who’d headed out with his head on straight the night of that last call. He wanted to keep a firm grasp on that—and on that man.

From the bedside table, his cell phone rang. He didn’t bother checking the screen; he just put the phone to his ear and then swallowed his groan when he heard the raspy voice coming through the speaker. “Have you cooled down yet?” his grandfather demanded.

Owen recalled that the last time he’d spoken with the old man, he’d hung up on him. It was a minor miracle that Philip Marston had let this long pass without another call. Owen probably owed Bryce a beer or two or twelve for running interference for him.

“I’m good, Granddad,” Owen said, swiping Izzy’s note from the bedside table and stuffing it into his pocket. She’d apparently made the bed while he was showering, and he was glad she hadn’t tossed the scrap of paper. It was tangible proof that he was a man on the mend. “How are you?”

“Annoyed, impatient, concerned.”

Owen grinned. “And so self-aware, too. What’s got your dander up?”

“Well, you, of course! I promised your mother I wouldn’t pester you….”

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