Love Me to Death by Maggie Shayne

Author:Maggie Shayne [Shayne, Maggie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781488079078
Publisher: Harlequin Special Releases
Published: 2010-08-25T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

DAVID STARED AT HER as emotions he hadn’t even known he could feel roiled inside him. Powerful as the waves crashing to the shore below the cliffs, they rocked him, and he couldn’t even identify most of them.

He didn’t know what to say to her. He just stood there, staring at her beautiful face and searching for words.

But she spoke before he could. She said, “I’m sorry.”

He felt the shock rip through him anew, maybe because her speaking to him meant she was real. She was real.

“How…?” He lifted a hand with the unfinished question, and it was trembling when he moved it closer, the backs of his slightly bent fingers brushing over her cheek, making her eyes fall closed. “God, you’re really here,” he whispered.

“No,” she said. “Not…not the way you think.” She swung her head sideways, her dark eyes widening as she looked toward the house. “What happened?” she asked.

“I don’t know.”

“Yes, you do.” She met David’s eyes again, and he felt her willing him to be honest with her. “I saw him in the window—one of your friends. I couldn’t tell which one. But I know he saw me, and something happened. Was it his heart?”

“It was Brad, and yes, I think so.”

The paramedics loaded him into the back of the ambulance and it trundled away. Sara lowered her head, shaking it slowly. “I never meant to hurt any of them. I only wanted to talk to Mark Potter—he was the only one of you still in town, and I had so many questions—” She lowered her head as tears filled her eyes, and a sob choked off whatever remained of her words.

“I have questions, too,” David said. “I don’t—understand. Was it someone else who died in that fire, Sierra?”

“Oh, no, that’s not—”

“And if it was, why did you wait so long to say anything? Why let us—especially me—go on believing—”

“It wasn’t—”

“Do you know what that did to me? And God, why haven’t you aged in all this time? I mean, you’d have to be—”

“I’m not Sierra.”

He finally stopped speaking, and just stared at her, blinking in disbelief.

“My name is Sara Jensen. I’m twenty-two. I’m an art teacher from New Hampshire. I am not Sierra Terrence. I just…”

“If you’re not her, what are you doing here?”

The ambulance pulled away, and he turned to watch it go, wondering how Brad was doing and feeling guilty for not being with him.

“This is a conversation that’s going to take a while,” she said. “And one we need to have—I mean, I need to have it. Sierra seems to be…all wrapped up in my life right now. And I don’t think she’s going away until I find out why. But…” Her eyes moved over his face, again and again, almost like a caress. She looked at him as if she were having trouble not touching him. And he got that, because he felt the same.

“Let’s not do this standing on the side of the road,” she said.

He nodded, and realized he was looking at her just as longingly as she was looking at him.

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