Quake by Tracey Alvarez

Author:Tracey Alvarez [Alvarez, Tracey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Icon Publishing
Published: 2018-03-09T00:00:00+00:00

Ana walked away from Daniel. Again. Already he could see a pattern forming. Gutsy as hell when it came to climbing down buildings or taking on scumbags twice her size, but confront the woman with anything too personal and she’d beat a hasty exit.

Go figure.

Wasn’t it usually the other way around? In his experience, women were in seventh heaven talking about their feelings—happy feelings, mad feelings, sad feelings. Feelings about how their coworkers treated them, how they felt when their best friend forgot to send them a birthday card, hurt feelings because Daniel took two hours to reply to a text message.

Apparently, Ana didn’t behave like other women.

Daniel walked after her, hands shoved deep into his pockets. He’d pretty much thrown it out there when he’d admitted how easy it would be to fall for her. And had she been receptive to what, for Daniel, was a baring-of-the-soul vulnerability? That was a solid, resounding no. So maybe he was just caught up in the stress of an over-the-top situation with an attractive woman. Rookie mistake. He’d confused simple lust with something else.

Denial ain’t just a river in Africa, son. His father’s voice again.

A scowl twisted his lips as he lengthened his stride to catch up. “The weather’s closing in fast,” he said, drawing alongside her. “We’ll need to look for somewhere to pitch Mrs. Wilcox’s tent before it gets worse.”

She tilted her face up at the sky as they walked, crinkling her nose as a droplet of water landed on it and muttering a string of four-letter words she wouldn’t want her daughter repeating, followed by the words, “Wellington weather.”

Really? Was it the weather that bothered her or the thought of being huddled next to him in a tent all night that rattled her cage? To be fair, he thought as he shoved damp hair off his forehead, she’d well and truly rattled his.

Daniel kept his gaze on the rivulets of rainwater collecting in the gutters picking up clumps of leaves and sending them spinning back the way they had come.

“What about up there?” She pointed toward a signpost advertising one of the main walkways around the city hills. “I’ve been on that walk. There’s a clearing big enough for the tent about five minutes’ walk along the path.”

“Let’s check it out.”

They hiked until Ana called out and ducked off the path, leading them between a cluster of overgrown prickly gorse bushes that seemed eager to spear them with their inch-long spines. The grassy area, roughly the size of an average family yard, was tucked almost out of sight of the main walking path. It was as safe a spot as any, considering they needed somewhere where something wouldn’t fall or slide on them during the night.

“Perfect. The gorse and scrub will give us some shelter from the wind, too.” He angled his head, the breeze carrying cool droplets of rain to dot his flushed face.

“Oh, I can’t wait to get this backpack off.”

Ana moaned loudly as the bag thumped to the grass beside her.

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