Key West by Stella Cameron

Author:Stella Cameron [Cameron, Stella]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance, Contemporary, Fiction, General, Suspense, Mystery & Detective, Erotica
ISBN: 9781568958514
Publisher: Zebra Books
Published: 2000-02-29T22:00:00+00:00

Twenty-two

Sonnie rolled away from him, and he prepared to grab for his shorts and go after her.

She didn’t leave the bed. Rather, she turned on her other side and put as much distance between them as possible.

Chris looked at her back, at the tumble of hair and pale shoulder picked out by faint light from the hallway. “Come back here,” he said.

“I’m sorry,” she told him. “I only wanted to get as close to you as I could. I wanted to feel you because you’re alive and strong. I shouldn’t have done that.”

“I want you back where you were. Because you’re alive and strong and I want you as close as I can get you.” He settled on his side, too, where he could see any move she made.

“You think I’m disgusting.”

He snorted. “Oh, I surely do, darlin’. Disgustin’. May every man be cursed with a woman as disgustin’ as you are. This world would be a peaceful place filled with happy men.”

That didn’t buy him any answer. “Why would you expect me to think you’re disgusting?”

“Υou know. I don’t have to tell you.”

“ I’m afraid you do.”

Her elbow angled up and she gathered her hair on top of her head. He’d forgotten just how special small, intimate moments could be, the kind of moments a man and woman shared when they weren’t studying every move.

“I’m not the kind of woman who cheats.”

“You think I haven’t figured out how honorable you are?”

She rested the back of her hand on her temple. “Some of the things I’ve thought—and done—aren’t very honorable.”

He wanted to hear her tell him about the things she’d thought. “Υοu don’t have a thing to feel guilty about.” Sometimes you had to be patient and hope you’d be told what you’d like to hear—eventually.

“You don’t know what goes through my mind. My madwoman’s mind.”

“You aren’t crazy.” He rose to an elbow and propped his head on his hand. “Don’t say that about yourself.” Strange how a time like this could feel better than any other time he remembered.

“I...When I got in this bed I...I had notions I have no right to have.”

He was a weak man. “You want to share those notions? So I can make you feel better about them?”

“I’ll tell you. Just so you understand you’ve got to be careful around me because I get wild ideas. As long as you don’t let me go anywhere with those ideas, I won’t make a fool of myself, or put you in a difficult position.”

Come on. Come on. Spill it all, sweetheart.

“I mean, I’ve got to stop it. It’s not right and I know it, but it keeps happening.”

What keeps happening? He had to let her tell it in her own way and time or she might back off again.

“I shock you, don’t I?”

“No.” But he’d like her to, Chris decided. He’d really like her to finish telling him her dreadful truths, too. Preferably before the sun came up.

A tinny rendition of the opening bars to the William Tell Overture brought a curse to his lips.

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