Jingle Bell Rock by Lori Foster

Author:Lori Foster [Foster, Lori]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General, Fiction
ISBN: 9780758205704
Google: kRBBqIFhvswC
Amazon: 0758205694
Publisher: Kensington Books
Published: 2005-10-01T06:06:30+00:00

Chapter Two

Suzanna blinked the snow from her lashes. It was a mirage. A figment of her imagination. Okay, and maybe the result of a long train ride… and some very hot and wet dreams. She'd known he wouldn't be here. She'd come home several times a year over the past decade… and not once had he, or for a long time, any of the Morgan brothers, been home in the Hollow. It never stopped her from daydreaming. And night dreaming. And basically just plain fantasizing about him. And what might happen if he should suddenly show up back home.

And what he might do to her if he did.

She shivered, and not from the cold and damp seeping through her coat. It was part dread because things hadn't exactly ended well between them, for which she only had herself to blame. And she was dead certain he blamed her, too. The other part, however, was anticipation. Which no amount of dread could quash. After all, it had been ten years. Surely no one held a grudge that long.

If she could have laughed at that moment, she would have. The Morgan family was famous—or infamous, actually—for holding grudges. But Jace had always been the easygoing Morgan. He'd left the Hollow rather than confront his father. And he'd let you go, too, she thought now, rather than track her down and demand to know why she'd stopped writing and calling. Why she'd let what they had slip away so easily, so quickly. As if it hadn't been the most important thing in her life.

Only she knew that while her bad judgment, and the choices she'd made because of it, had happened quickly, her regret had lasted forever. Of course, his heart had probably mended ages ago. Hers most certainly should have. But it hadn't Not entirely.

Actually, that spot in her heart still twinged when she thought about him, about their past together, about the future they might have had, had she not so callously tossed it away at the first glimmer of a new love, so dazzling and shiny. So much more mature and exciting, she'd been convinced, than a high school sweetheart from her country town could ever hope to be. Well, she figured the occasional painful tug at her heart was the least she deserved. It had certainly served her well enough as a reminder, because she'd never made the same mistake again.

Which is probably why you're alone at Christmas. Again.

She brushed at the snowflakes that gathered insistently on her lashes, watching, unable to tear her gaze away from the man presently moving through the crowd of holiday travelers.

"It's not him, Zan. Just stop it right now." It couldn't be him. It was simply the memories that this holiday always dredged up. Memories of the nights he'd made love to her, so fiercely tender, so possessive, she shivered a little even now, thinking about it. Yes, she'd probably romanticized it over the years, as only a woman could when thinking back to the first man who'd made love to her, who'd told her he loved her.

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