One Night in Boston by Boniface Allie

Author:Boniface, Allie [Boniface, Allie]
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance
Publisher: Samhain Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2007-07-23T22:00:00+00:00

10:00 p.m.

A throat cleared. Jack jerked away. His mouth left the smooth skin of Maggie’s neck and his hands fell from where they lay buried in her hair. His mind whirled and the throbbing in his groin prevented him from forming any kind of coherent thought. Shit, he felt like he was sixteen again, caught in his girlfriend’s basement with one hand up her shirt and her mother standing on the stairs. He smoothed one palm over his lapel, not daring to look at Maggie. Whoever it was, whoever stood in the doorway, he’d deal with. He’d think of something to say, or some excuse to make everything all right. He always did.

Eden. Of course.

Jack felt the flush rise on his cheeks. Their old college friend leaned just inside the doorway. A knowing expression darkened her smile. She glanced from Jack to Maggie and back again. “Well. Time doesn’t heal all wounds, apparently.” Eden glanced back through the glass. The rest of the partygoers still whirled to the music, fifty feet away and completely unaware.

Jack felt Maggie inch away from him, trying to put space between them on the narrow concrete bench. He stole a glance her way, in time to watch her tuck her hair behind her ears in a nervous gesture he remembered from years past. He wondered if her heart had slowed at all. His sure hadn’t.

“Eden, listen.” He wasn’t sure how much she’d seen. Or what she’d tell. He was damn sure she knew about his engagement to Paige, though. The whole city did. He dropped his head, at a loss for what to say. A stranger, he could lie to. A business acquaintance, he could convince to keep quiet. But Eden? Any fib he’d try to tell, she’d look right through him and laugh.

Jack studied his palms. The bottom line was that he’d screwed up, big time. He wouldn’t blame Eden if she told Paige flat out that she’d caught him with another woman. Most of the women he knew in Boston stuck together that way. They revealed secrets. They told tales and dug in their nails for the hashing and rehashing. A sharp pain stabbed him just below the breastbone. Problem was, Maggie wasn’t just another woman. She was the one who’d gotten away. The one he’d never really recovered from. The one who sat beside him now, waiting for him to speak.

“Some of the guests have been asking about you.” Eden sank to a seat on the bench opposite them. “Neve is worried you’d disappeared,” she said to Maggie. “Thought maybe you’d come up with some other crazy way of finding Dillon and—”

With that, Maggie jumped up. Don’t go, he wanted to say. Wait a minute. Let’s figure out what just happened here. But she only mumbled something he couldn’t make out. A rustle of green, a banging of the door, and the room turned cold again. Empty.

Eden eyed Jack and hummed a tune he didn’t recognize.

“What exactly are you up to, Major?” Her voice, low and throaty, carried a note of warning.

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