Love by Proxy by Diana Palmer

Author:Diana Palmer
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance
ISBN: 9780373451630
Publisher: Silhouette
Published: 1985-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Eight

Worth was alone in one of the waiting rooms in the cardiac intensive care unit. He was smoking like a furnace, and Amelia's eyes went over him like loving hands, lingering on the broad chest in an expensive mauve knit shirt and his muscular thighs in tailored tan slacks. He looked more handsome than ever, and she knew now what was under his clothing. Her face colored at the memories. He looked up and saw her. She expected that he might smile at her, or hold out his hand. He did neither. His eyes were haunted as they looked at her, and all she saw in them was regret.

She went to him slowly, trying not to look too crushed by what she saw. She sat down beside him, tucking the skirt of her white dress close around her. Not for the world would she let him know how she'd hoped that the night before had been a beginning. Now she knew it had only been a momentary weakness, caused by too much liquor, too much worry, and by her own eager abandon. She wouldn't think about that, she told herself. It wasn't the time.

"Has there been any news?" she asked softly.

He shook his head and took another draw from the cigarette. "It's a long operation. Several hours." He glanced down at her searchingly. He started to say something and then shrugged. "I got here just in time to see Grandmother off." He smiled faintly. "She was awake and alert and anxious to get on with it. She said to tell you not to go looking for work elsewhere. She's not about to die and leave you jobless."

She laughed and then felt tears sting her eyes. That sounded like her indomitable employer. She lowered her gaze to her clasped hands.

He muttered something under his breath. "Amy, I suppose I should apologize for seducing you."

She glanced up at him and back down again. "I offered," she reminded him. "There had to be a first time, didn't there?" she asked evasively. "I'm twenty-eight, after all. It might be my first and last time, you know. I…don't feel that way with most men."

Her eyes searched his, sad eyes, because it had been only one night and she had hundreds ahead of her that wouldn't begin and end with him.

He didn't look convinced, though, and there was a dark scowl on his face.

"It's done," she said, crossing her legs. "Regrets won't help now."

His face hardened when she said that, but she was staring toward the hall and didn't see that he'd misunderstood what she said.

She had to get her mind off it. She stared at the doorway but it only reminded her why they were sitting there, and she frowned. Bypass surgery wasn't so dangerous these days, but Jeanette was old. And for a long time, it would be touch and go. She wormed her hand closer into his with a sigh. He was smoking madly, and she knew it was nerves. She hadn't expected

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