Lexie by Kimberly Dean

Author:Kimberly Dean [Dean, Kimberly]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, Romance, General, Contemporary
ISBN: 9781619211018
Google: iMpF2X7PGyAC
Amazon: B0082GVY36
Publisher: Samhain Publishing
Published: 2012-10-22T21:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

“Lexie!”

Cam was already at the door, all his instincts focused on getting to Lexie. This was bad. Incomprehensibly heartless.

Damn that man!

Grabbing the doorjamb, he wheeled into the hallway. She was nowhere to be found. He cursed when he heard her heels beating against the tile in the foyer and hurried after her. A maid watched with interest, but she became immersed in straightening a picture frame when he caught her staring.

Cam nearly snarled at her. That better be what everyone was doing right now, working as if their jobs depended on it. He didn’t care if the household staff wasn’t under his purview.

The front door was closing as he turned the corner. He yanked it open before it could shut. “Lexie.”

She wasn’t that far ahead of him, but she acted as if she didn’t hear him. Trotting down the steps to catch up with her, he planted himself between her and her car. The moment he saw the expression on her face, his gut tightened. Her face was smooth, too smooth. And her eyes… He’d never seen her pretty eyes look so flat. It was as if she was staring right through him.

“Are you all right?” he asked.

“Did you know?” Her voice was flat too, emotionless. There was no anger, no heat. There wasn’t even any sadness.

“Know what?”

“What my par—the Underhills did? Is that why you insisted on being here this morning?”

Cam understood she was hurting, but he gritted his teeth all the same. He was sick and tired of being lumped in with that bastard Underhill. “How the hell would I know that?”

“You told me to let you worry—and this is something that could affect the company’s reputation.”

“I…” Hell.

He took a step towards her, getting in her space. He waited for the electricity that was always between them to jump. For the first time ever, he felt the pull but not the spark. “I suspected something was off with the adoption,” he admitted.

She nodded and pressed her lips together. The reaction was small, but a flicker of energy passed between them. It sputtered out almost as quickly as it had appeared, and she dipped her chin. Her hands hung at her sides as she tried to walk past him.

He caught her by the waist to stop her. This wasn’t right. She should be spitting mad or crying. She was doing neither.

He shook her to get her attention. “It wasn’t the company I was worried about.”

She didn’t respond. She just stood there, tired and defeated. Tired he could understand. Defeated he wouldn’t accept.

Bending his head, he peered straight into her eyes. “I was worried about you. What adoption agency separates identical twins? Even twenty-some years ago, they knew better than to do that. It didn’t make sense. That’s why I wanted to be here this morning. That’s why I tried to dig into the adoption details.”

“But you made me think you were concerned about Roxie. You didn’t tell me you suspected my…” a muscle near her mouth tensed, “…Julian.”

There it was, a tiny bit of the pain, a scrap of the anger she had to be feeling.

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