Secrets and Lies by Capri Montgomery

Author:Capri Montgomery [Capri Montgomery]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B005ZXE3S2
Published: 2011-10-25T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

“Are you sure you don’t want me to come over?” Kyle uttered those words as if this would be her last chance to say yes.

“I’m sure,” she said. She was sure of her answer the last ten times he asked her too. “I’m fine. Stop worrying so much.” She had never given Kyle the impression that she needed him to play her protector, but he always seemed to do it anyway. She just wanted a friend, not a big brother, but he was so lovingly protective that she had a hard time being angry with him. He worried too much, now more than before, and that worry was growing in severity even before anybody had tried to kill her. Of course, she had only told him about the one incident, the one with the car, not everything else. He didn’t need that burden on his shoulders, and she didn’t need him camping out on her couch.

He didn’t need to worry about her either. She could take care of herself, plus, Thomas would be spending the night—again. Thinking about Thomas made her lips curve upward into the most salacious smile. Before she left his office she had been sure he was going to kiss her again. He had stood up, looked at her so seriously and said, “Thena,” with that deep honey voice of his. When she acknowledged him he said, “Before you leave my office you might want to fix your hair. Otherwise Janet’s going to have a fairly good idea of what you were doing in here.”

She had gasped at her own lapse in memory. She had fixed her skirt, re-secured her blouse within the waistband, tried to make sure her cheeks weren’t too flushed by thinking about anything and everything other than what they had shared on his deep mahogany desk, but she had forgotten her hair.

She marched back over to his desk, picked up her clip, ran her fingers through her hair and quickly secured her hair loosely in the binding of the clip.

Just thinking about her painfully delicious afternoon had her checking the clock. The big, black roman numerals assured her it was only seven o’clock. Seven…that meant she had an hour before Thomas showed up. An hour…what could she do to take her mind off him for an entire hour? As it stood, before Kyle called she had been staring at the same floor schematics for twenty minutes.

“Kyle,” she smiled. “I’m going to get back to work, and you’re going to go do whatever it was you were getting ready to do.”

“Yes, mother,” he laughed. “I’ll see you tomorrow.”

“You will?” She didn’t remember making plans to see him at any point this week.

“Yeah, remember you offered to help me fix the design. I need you, you’re my genius.”

She laughed. “I forgot.” Or more like she hadn’t realized she had set a date for that already. She didn’t realize it because she hadn’t done it. They hadn’t finalized the details. “Okay, come by my office—”

“It’ll be after hours.

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