Montgomery 12 - High Tide by Jude Deveraux

Author:Jude Deveraux [Deveraux, Jude]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-03-09T21:17:15+00:00

"But what's going to get us out?" Fiona asked quietly. "That's the real question, isn't it?"

"The lawyers will. They'll investigate, and there are detectives trying to solve this thing. And my cousin—"

Fiona could no longer stay still. She got off the bed and walked to the foot, to stand between him and the TV "Why do you trust those people so much? It's your life involved too. For all that the papers seem to have disregarded you in this—after all, you're not famous, you didn't create a doll like Kimberly—but you are involved in this."

"What choice is there?'' Ace said, moving his head to try to look around her, as though he was much more interested in the TV than in what she was saying. "We can't continue as we are. You can't stand living in cabins that don't have hot-and-cold running water, and you break down at every little revelation. You're too soft to stand it on the outside."

So many words went through Fiona's head that she couldn't get them all out. "Soft?" she said, and her quiet tone was louder than a shout. " I am soft? I raised myself, you… you… Everything I am I did myself, without any help from anybody."

She put her hands on her hips and began to pace back and forth at the end of the bed. "Do you know how I got started with Kimberly? I created her, that's how. When I got out of college, I had no connections, nothing; I might as well have been an orphan. And I was not going to use my friends as ladder rungs. 'That poor little Burkenhalter girl,' is what I was called.

But I wasn't going to let anything stop me."

Turning, she glared at him as he was stretched out on the bed, his ankles crossed, one arm behind his head, the remote in his other hand, and gazing up at her, a bland expression on his face. Soft! she thought.

She resumed her pacing. "After a couple of years of dead-end jobs, I got a job as a personal assistant to an executive at Davidson Toys. I thought I was going to help create, but she just wanted me to fetch her coffee and pick up her dry cleaning. I was little more than a maid, and paid about as much as one."

Turning, she raised her arm and pointed at him. "But I didn't let that get me down. I kept my mouth shut and my ears open, and one day I heard—" Fiona had to take a deep breath before she could say the man's name.

Her voice lowered and she calmed down. "I heard James Tonbridge Garrett say that he'd give the earth for a B clone." Fiona glared at Ace. "I do hope you know who that is."

Ace nodded, his face still showing no emotion.

"I didn't sleep for three days and nights," she said, over her anger now.

Turning, she looked toward the curtained window. "I thought about nothing but making… not just a new toy but a whole new concept in the doll world.

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