Keeping Company by Tami Hoag

Author:Tami Hoag [Hoag, Tami]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9780553806410
Google: h1qvepm7O1EC
Amazon: 0553806416
Publisher: Bantam
Published: 1990-01-02T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

“The deal is off,” Alaina said decisively. “I think you’ll have to agree with me when I say it simply isn’t working out. Eventually our friends will see through the ruse, and we’ll have to deal with them. I see no point in delaying the inevitable, do you?”

Her reflection didn’t answer her. She stared at herself in the mirror above the sink in her tiny office bathroom, imagining Dylan nodding in agreement, looking grave but sensible.

“Of course he’ll agree,” she muttered as she leaned toward the mirror, studying her hair with a critical eye. She reached up and yanked out a gray one. “Just because we had fantastic sex doesn’t mean he’ll be blind to reason.”

Her fingers sought out another silver thread among the brown and snatched it out with a practiced flick of the wrist.

Butterflies executed a wild barrel roll in her stomach. She hoped to God Dylan would see reason. After he’d gone home she had sat up in bed most of the night thinking and had come to the conclusion that she didn’t want to keep up the pretense of feeling nothing for him when she was feeling something very special and he was not.

For a few moments she had allowed herself the luxury of thinking it might work out between them. She had pictured herself as Dylan’s wife, as the mother of his children. In this picture they had been a happy, loving family. It was a nice picture, one she yearned for and feared to reach out for all at once.

“Too good to be true, that’s what it is,” she muttered, fighting down the ache of tears in her throat.

She had been a fool to let her feelings run away with her the way they had. Really, she couldn’t quite understand what had gone wrong. Her emotions never ran as close to the surface as they had yesterday. It wasn’t at all normal for her to go around openly yearning for a husband and children. In fact, she seldom allowed herself to think such thoughts at all.

“Must be PMS,” she grumbled, pulling out another gray hair.

It wasn’t prudent for her to be in love with Dylan Harrison, so she just wouldn’t be. Simple. All she had to do was call him and tell him the deal was off.

“No sweat,” she said, sounding far more certain than she felt. “I got an A-plus in confrontation.”

A sharp knock sounded on the door, and it was pulled open before Alaina had a chance to say anything. Marlene filled the doorway, half-glasses sliding down her nose, a load of mail and paperwork cradled on one flabby arm. “Quit pulling out the gray ones, you’ll go bald.”

Alaina planted her hands on her hips, outraged at the intrusion and embarrassed at being caught. “Is no part of my life private from you, Marlene?”

“I doubt it. I’m clairvoyant, you know.”

Grinding her teeth, Alaina stepped into her office and went to sit behind her table to page through a stack of papers. “So you’ve told me.

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