Moonlight Masquerade by Jude Deveraux

Author:Jude Deveraux
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Pocket Books
Published: 2013-01-22T06:00:00+00:00

For several minutes, Reede stood where he was in the hospital corridor, unable to move. He hadn’t been asleep for a day and a half and he should go home to bed. But the thought of that dark apartment without Sophie was more than he could bear.

How to get her back? was the only thought in his head. Was there any apology that she’d listen to? He doubted it.

As he started to put his phone back into his pocket, he thought of his college roommate. Reede checked his contacts list and pushed the button.

“Hey old man,” his former roommate, Kirk, said. “Still trying to get someone to move to glorious Edi-lean and take over for you?”

“No,” Reede said. “I need something else. Didn’t your brother get a degree in engineering?”

“Yeah. He works for NASA now. You planning to go to the moon to get away from your hometown?”

Reede winced that he’d made someone think he hated Edilean so much. “Didn’t you tell me that when he was a kid he liked to make up codes?”

“Yeah, he did. You planning to become a spy and need some help in your code class?”

“Actually, I am. Sort of.”

“Count me in!” Kirk said. “Who do you need spied on?”

“Can’t tell you that,” Reede said. It was one thing to blab too much to his cousin, but he wasn’t about to give the Treeborne name to anyone outside the family. Instead, he lied. “My aunt found her grandmother’s old cookbook and she wants to use it, but it’s written in some sort of code. Think your brother could break it?”

“If he can’t he has the entire space industry to help him. But I can tell you that if it’s one of those codes based on the order of words in a book and you don’t have the book, there will be a problem.”

“It could be,” Reede said. “I have no idea, but maybe I could scan it and e-mail it to your brother. Think that would be okay?”

“I just prescribed for his athlete’s feet so he owes me. I still have my old e-mail address so send it to me. I’ll get it to him.”

“I will. I’m in Williamsburg now but as soon as I get home I’ll send it to you. And thanks, Kirk. I’ll owe you.”

“Actually, I’ve been having hemorrhoid problems and—”

“Call a specialist,” Reede said and hung up on Kirk’s laughter.

He left the hospital and drove home. It was late and the office was dark and empty—and his apartment was even worse. Tired as he was, he took the time to scan his copy of the Treeborne cookbook into his computer, then sent the pages to Kirk. When that was done, he sent an e-mail to Al’s wife and told her he’d take the house Sophie had seen and he’d be moving in tomorrow. He couldn’t bear staying alone in the apartment that Sophie had made into a home.

“Tomorrow,” he kept saying as he showered. Tomorrow he’d work on making Sophie forgive him.

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