One Wrong Step by Laura Griffin

Author:Laura Griffin [Griffin, Laura]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Suspense, Mystery, Contemporary, Thriller, Adult
ISBN: 9781416565970
Google: X-535ir5xN0C
Amazon: 1416537384
Barnesnoble: 1416537384
Goodreads: 2599439
Publisher: Pocket Star
Published: 2008-01-01T06:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER

13

C elie left Dax to his sangria and walked down the hall to wait for McAllister. The elevator doors dinged open, and then he was coming toward her, pinning her in place with his gaze as those long, tall legs ate up the hallway. Just seeing all that macho directed at her made her breath catch. Today he wore jeans and cowboy boots and a tight black T-shirt that seemed to match his mood. He plucked the key from her hand and unlocked the door, then pushed it open and entered her apartment.

She thought he was just being rude until she saw him glancing around and realized he was checking the place out. He went down the hallway, and a second later she heard her shower curtain being swept back. As he looked in the bedroom, Celie secured the locks and headed into the kitchen to get a soft drink from the fridge.

When she turned around, McAllister was standing beside the kitchen counter glowering at her. She braced herself to be yelled at, but then he seemed to make a last-minute effort to cool his temper. He leaned back against the counter and crossed his ankles.

“Am I missing something here?” he asked.

“What do you mean?” She popped open her Diet Coke.

“Like the part where we agree it’s okay for you to take off without so much as a conversation?”

“I left you a note—”

“A fucking thank-you note?”

“It wasn’t a thank-you note!” He made it sound ridiculous.

“‘McAllister: Thank you.—Cecelia.’ Did I leave something out? Oh, like how you taped it to my mirror and it took me ten minutes to find it after I woke up and I thought you might have been kidnapped!”

Celie rolled her eyes and opened one of her cabinets. She got down a glass and filled it with ice.

“Does everyone get a note, or did I just get lucky?”

She whirled to face him. What was he insinuating? She’d practically told him she hadn’t been with anyone since Robert.

But then she’d also told him she was on the Pill. Being a guy, he’d probably assumed that meant she was having sex with someone. Or several someones.

She watched him for a moment, oscillating between anger over the way he was talking to her and guilt over the way she’d lied to him. She decided to go on the offensive.

“Let me ask you something,” she said, crossing her arms. “Have you ever hooked up with someone”—she purposely used Dax’s term because it sounded so emotionally distant—“and then left without a conversation?”

He blinked at her, and she knew that he had. She laughed. “See? I knew it. It’s okay for you to treat things casually, but the minute someone else does it, you get upset.” She poured her drink and bit back the rest of the things she could have said. She didn’t really want this argument. “I’m just trying to simplify this for both of us.”

“What the fuck does that mean?”

Again with the language.

“Look,” she said, “I know you’re not looking for anything serious, and neither am I, and I didn’t see the point in drawing everything out.

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