Never Sleep With a Suspect on Gabriola Island by Sandy Frances Duncan & George Szanto

Author:Sandy Frances Duncan & George Szanto [Duncan, Sandy Frances & Szanto, George]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, General, Mystery & Detective, Action & Adventure
ISBN: 9781926741499
Publisher: Touchwood Editions
Published: 2009-03-09T04:00:00+00:00

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In Noel’s study Kyra had unlocked the leather case and taken out three balls. She’d undressed, climbed into bed and lay still in the dark, the balls by her pillow. She’d been able to hear faint talk from the living room. Her body still tingled. If Tam were here now—No? Yes? She got up and took a fourth ball from the case. She lay down again, two balls cupped in each palm. They were good for squeezing as well as juggling.

Celibacy is mind over matter, isn’t it? You decided to be self-possessed, to need no one. Now one cute guy comes along and you’re ready to sacrifice Born-Again Virginhood?

He was only wanting to kiss.

Sure, tell me another.

Well—

And where has sex ever gotten you?

Kyra tested the heft of the juggling balls. She would juggle her history with men. From the start. Not the year before Reed, that was just heavy necking. The first real one was Jimmy, a quiet sophomore down the hall. It took the two of them a week to admit to each other they were both virgins. They had three months of learning good things about sex till Jimmy the liar went home to Kentucky for Christmas and found his high school girlfriend five months pregnant, so he married her. Kyra was, naturally, heartbroken. Which didn’t stop her from having great times. A one-man woman with each of her boyfriends, in four years six of them. Not one of the relationships had ended well: three fights, one dropout, two abandonments. Her fate.

All practice for her real men. Juggle the real men. She got out of bed, turned on the desk lamp, set three balls on the computer table, tossed one in the air. Kyra the juggling nude.

At her graduation dance she had met Vance Perrugia. Instant passion, a love affair for all time. They married in August, white gown and veil. September honeymoon in Italy to meet his aunts and uncles, Venice on his mother’s side the first ten days, Naples on his father’s the second ten. Then ten days on their own. From intensity as fervor to intensity as triggered temper to intensity as violence. She left him for two days. He found her, all apology and tears. Everything would be okay when they got back to Oregon. She agreed. October proved tense, but that was because they were setting up house. By the middle of November he’d beaten her four times. She filed for divorce in December. Being bashed around by Vance was not her idea of fun. She moved back to Vancouver.

Skiing at Whistler two winters later she met Simon Kerr, a lawyer, early thirties, sense of humor, straight teeth and nice ears, took on immigration cases, some pro bono work, moving up in the world. Ball two in the air. She lived with him a year, making sure he wasn’t of the wife-beating persuasion. No, a gentle man, though sometimes given to depression. With Kyra’s tender jollying he could snap out of it.

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