Professor Love by Nikky Kaye

Author:Nikky Kaye [Kaye, Nikky]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780995166646
Published: 2016-06-24T04:00:00+00:00

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The library was just as elegant and cavernous as he remembered. And equally forbidding, for all the sunshine streaming in through the lead-paned windows.

After an endless night of punching pillows and counting backwards in a futile attempt to get to sleep, Max had finally given up and headed in to the office at a little after seven o’clock. Three hours and five cups of coffee later, he stared blankly at the mockingly empty computer screen, and finally shook his head.

And now he was standing here in the middle of the library, and he wasn’t sure exactly why. His gaze wandered over to the long oak table where he and Sophy had sat a couple of weeks before. Where she had read to him. Where he had kissed her.

He swallowed, the bitter taste of old coffee lingering in the back of his throat. It mingled with regret, nearly choking him. It had been wrong of him to ask her to stay with him the night before. He knew it the second the words left his mouth and she pulled away from him.

Max walked over to the study table and traced the shining grain of the wood with his index finger. He wondered if that was what passion was all about—letting your heart speak before your head can get a word in edgewise.

And regret. Passion was all about regret.

His gaze wandered over to the rotating bookshelves near the windows. Squinting against the sunlight, he surveyed the section until he found what he was looking for, and made a beeline for it.

A short while later, a small stack of books was balanced in the crook of his left arm, and he bit his lip in concentration as he scanned the back cover of each book he grabbed off the shelf. He blew his hair out of his eyes and looked around. When his gaze lit on a woman nearby, he juggled the books in his arms and walked over to her.

“Excuse me, but have you read any of these?” He twisted his upper body to show her the spines of the books. She smiled at him and glanced down. “A few.” She pointed to one. “I love her.”

“Really? So you’d recommend it?”

She raised an eyebrow. “Recommend it for what?”

“Reading, I guess.” Max lurched to the right as one of the books started to slide out of the stack. “Research.”

“Research,” she repeated, grinning. “Buddy, your wife’s a lucky woman.”

“Oh, I’m not...” The wayward book finally broke free, and the rest of the books collapsed in on themselves as though he were shuffling cards. “...Married.” Max sighed and kneeled to gather the paperbacks. When he glanced up again, the woman was gone. He hoisted the books and headed for the circulation desk.

When he dropped the stack on the counter, the small mountain crumbled again and half a dozen paperbacks slid away from him to teeter on the edge of the desk, then plummeted over. The glare the librarian gave him went unnoticed as he rummaged through his pockets for his wallet.

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