Never Too Hot by Bella Andre

Author:Bella Andre [Andre, Bella]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Fiction, General, Suspense, Contemporary, Divorced women, Fire fighters
ISBN: 9780440245025
Publisher: BANTAM DELL (2010年5月25日)
Published: 2010-05-25T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

ISABEL WALKED in her front door just as the fireworks had ended. She dropped her keys on the front table, didn’t hear any music pumping out of her son’s bedroom and worried for a second before she realized he was probably still downtown having fun with his friends.

She went upstairs to her bedroom to get ready for bed, her heart pounding as she brushed her teeth, washed her face, put on her pajamas. All afternoon at the diner, all night as she plated dozens of meals, she’d only been half there. She’d wanted to pull out the letters a hundred times. But she’d had a restaurant to run.

Going to the spot in her closet where she’d dropped her purse, she reached in and pulled out the stack of papers. She still couldn’t believe Andrew had kept them all. It meant more to her than it should. Especially since she’d burned all of his.

Slipping beneath her sheets, she turned on her bedside lamp. And as she read one letter after another, two years of young love simply burning up the pages, it all came back to her.

Sailing beside him, capsizing the boat on purpose so that he could pull her against him in the water, kiss her until another boat came around the bend to where they were floating and they were forced to pull away from each other and right their craft.

Hiking through the thick forests, holding his hand at the top of the hill, the whole world at their feet, loving it when he pressed her up against a rough tree trunk, shivering as his fingers moved beneath her shirt, to her bra, crying out as his large palms cupped her, caressed her.

Rowing out to the island and lying in his arms beneath a full moon, listening to the strong, steady beat of his heart as shooting stars fell from the sky.

She nestled deeper beneath her blankets as she read, wishing these sweet memories were all there were, dreading the knowledge that they weren’t.

Because she only knew too well the letter she’d find at the bottom of the pile, what it would say.

“You wanted her. You can have her. Forever.”

Morning came too fast and Isabel was just taking her first sip of coffee for the day while slipping on her clogs when she saw the light blinking on her old-fashioned message machine. She was leaning into the front door only half listening, when she finally realized what Ginger had said.

“Andrew’s coming, Isabel. He’s taking the red-eye out tonight. I figured you’d want to know.”

No. God no. The only trick was the one her heart was playing on her. She wanted so badly to keep from losing her breath, to stop the room from spinning, but it was already too late, and she had to put a hand out against the front door to hold herself up as her most deeply repressed memory came back to life in brilliant technicolor.

Over the past two years, Isabel had gotten used to sneaking out at night to be with Andrew.

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