Lost and Found--3 Book Box Set by Diana Palmer

Author:Diana Palmer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Mills & Boon Special Release
Published: 1992-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Five

There was a crowd in the halls when Nick came out of Tabby’s office after having used the computer at Thorn College.

Shrieks were coming from the biology lab, and the outer door was open. With assumed casualness, he walked in.

Dr. Flannery was trying to calm a violently upset Pal. The man was holding something in his hands that the primate was obviously bent on possessing.

“You can’t have these!” he was telling the monkey. “Where did you get them, anyway?”

“What does he have?” Nick asked with amused interested.

Dr. Flannery looked over his shoulder and his pink complexion went even pinker. “Dr. Day’s keys,” he replied. “God knows where he found them. Dr. Day must have been in here earlier.”

“Are you teaching him to steal now, Flannery?” Daniel asked from the door with that maddeningly superior tone that put everyone’s back up.

“I am not!” Flannery choked, and went even redder. “Would you give these to Dr. Day at lunch, please?” he asked Daniel, handing him the keys. “I have a meeting.”

“Glad to,” Daniel replied. “That animal’s a born thief. I’d watch him if I were you.”

“That’s what I’m trying to do.”

“This primate project is a waste of time,” Daniel muttered. “The only thing you’re going to learn about that creature is that he’s adept at sleight of hand.”

“I believe your field is history?” Dr. Flannery asked pointedly.

Daniel shrugged. “It doesn’t take a biologist to recognize an animal with a bad attitude.” He glanced with irritation at Nick, who’d been leaning against the door facing, taking in the conversation. “Did you need something, Mr. Reed?”

“Only Tabby,” Nick replied with a sensuality in his tone that penetrated even Daniel’s thick skull.

Daniel seemed to grow an inch. “My fiancée,” he stressed the word, “is teaching her class.”

“I know.” Nick shouldered away from the wall. “Nice of you to take her class until she got here.”

“How did you know that?” the older man demanded.

Nick smiled slowly. “Why don’t you ask Tabby?” He turned and walked along the hall, intent for the moment on finding Dr. Day.

The art department was in a separate building, and it took some searching before he found Dr. Day’s class. The interested looks he was getting from some of the women students amused him. But lately, the only face he saw was Tabby’s. Who’d have believed that she had a body like that, he wondered as he walked along. Her clothes made her look thin and lackluster. But under them… He groaned silently at the memory of how it had been to look at her, to touch and taste her. He wanted her more and more every day, and that wouldn’t do.

He found Dr. Day in a corner classroom, just gathering his things together into an attaché case. He was a tall, thin man with thick dark hair, and he looked faintly nervous.

“Dr. Day?” Nick introduced himself and shook hands with the other man. “I hope you don’t mind. I’m trying to find out as much as I can about a recent theft.

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