Reluctant Wife by Cassidy Carla

Author:Cassidy, Carla [Cassidy, Carla]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance
ISBN: 9780373078509
Publisher: Silhouette Intrigue
Published: 2009-05-16T12:41:34+00:00

Chapter 9

“Somebody wants me dead.”

Samantha’s words haunted Tyler for the remainder of the night and continued to worry him through the boring, forensic morning testimony.

After Bones’s chilling phone call, Tyler and Samantha had talked, trying to figure out whose toes she might have stepped on, who the threat might have come from. But there were no answers.

Tyler was frightened for her. He sensed danger swirling closer and closer but felt a helpless impotence to stop it. Not only was he worried about her, he was worried about himself and the crazy confusion of his thoughts where she was concerned.

He stifled a yawn and sat up straighter at the defense table. At the moment, the hair and fiber expert was on the stand explaining every hair and fiber he’d found in Abigail Monroe’s bedroom.

He cast Samantha a quick glance. She seemed completely oblivious to the turmoil she’d created in him. The testimony from the tall, thin hair-and-fiber expert captured her attention. She stopped looking at the man only long enough to make a quick note or two in the legal pad before her.

No big deal—that was what she’d insisted she felt about their lovemaking. No big deal. Tyler frowned and stared down at the table, once again overwhelmed with confusion.

For him it had been a very big deal. Making love to Samantha, discovering her a virgin, had shattered every preconceived notion he had about her.

Many nights he’d sat and listened to Jamison bemoan his eldest daughter’s suspected promiscuity. The fact that Samantha had given herself completely and fully for the first time to Tyler, filled his heart with a burden he’d never felt before.

Why had she made love with him? He looked at her, noticing that as usual, tendrils of hair had escaped the neat confinement at the nape of her neck. She seemed to show no emotional baggage whatsoever from their lovemaking.

They’d been stiff and formal with each other over their morning coffee, neither mentioning what had happened the night before.

Tyler had recognized her diatribe immediately after their lovemaking as a defense mechanism. He also knew people were usually defensive because they were guilty or hiding something. What would Samantha be like without that edge of defensiveness, without the bravado that drove her from one mishap to another? He doubted he would ever know.

For the first time, Tyler wondered about the childhood she had said was so horrid, about what kind of father Jamison really had been to his two daughters. Had Samantha been right when she’d accused Tyler of being blinded by Jamison’s charisma? Had Tyler seen only what he’d wanted to see in the man who had been his mentor?

He looked at Samantha once again, remembering how soft, how silky her skin had been beneath his touch, the way they’d fit together so perfectly as he’d slid deep inside her. A responding warmth spread through him even now, and he felt a stirring in his groin.

He jerked his gaze away from her, irritated that sheer memory alone could cause such a swift, potent reaction.

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