Never Say Never Again by Tori Carrington

Author:Tori Carrington
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2001-09-27T04:00:00+00:00

9

BRONTE HAD ALWAYS SCOFFED when she’d heard the description “her heart was in her throat.” After all, it was a physical impossibility, wasn’t it? But as she stood there, in the middle of that old, dusty house, anticipating Connor’s response to finding her waiting for him…well, she felt as if something was stuck in her throat. And that something very well could have been her heart.

She watched his face intently. His surprise was plainly visible. But it was the other expression that made the object in her throat dip way low in her belly. He appeared…relieved, glad, almost pleased to see her.

She smiled tremulously. “Hi,” she said, feeling utterly stupid.

“Hi, yourself.”

At least fifteen feet separated them, but they could have been standing face to face judging by how very close she felt to him at that very moment.

She cleared her throat. “I hope you don’t mind. You know that I called Kelli asking where you might be.” She gave a quiet laugh. “How was I supposed to know that I’d hear from every last McCoy mere minutes later?”

“My brothers…called you?”

She nodded. “Your father first. He was very worried. Told me about this place.” She glanced toward the door. “Is he still here?”

“No.”

“Oh.”

She turned around and picked up a thermos from the table behind her. “I, um, thought you might like this.”

He eyed the metal container as though it might hold the secret to his existence. “Please don’t tell me it’s soup.”

Her smiled widened. “Coffee. Colombian. Extra strong.”

He groaned as she opened the thermos and poured out a healthy portion. He was next to her in a few strides and accepted the cup from her.

“Talk about cheap dates,” she said.

His gaze met her across the cup.

“Bronte…”

She lifted her chin as she screwed the top back on the coffee. “What?”

“About last night…”

She slowly sank into the sagging couch behind her, noticing that he chose to continue standing. That was okay. She supposed she deserved to be at a physical disadvantage after what had happened between them. “Look, Connor, I don’t know how else to go about this but just to come right out and say it.”

“That would have been my advice.”

She gave a small smile. “What I’m trying to say here is…well, I really don’t know what to believe.”

“You watched the tape.”

She exhaled, glad he was making this somewhat easier for her when it was probably the last thing he should be doing. “Yes.”

He finally sat down on the couch beside her, planting his forearms on his thighs. “Doesn’t look very good, does it?”

She slowly shook her head, finding words impossible with him sitting so close.

“I don’t get it.” He looked at her squarely, the weighty shadow in his eyes drawing her in deeper. “I know for a fact that I didn’t go into that house that afternoon. Yet even I thought that was me going in and out of there on that tape.” He clasped his hands tightly together. “There has to be some kind of rational explanation. But if there is, I certainly can’t find one.

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