Shades of the Past by Sandra Heath

Author:Sandra Heath [Heath, Sandra]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Paranormal Regency Romance
Publisher: Belgrave House
Published: 1996-08-29T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

Kyle knocked again. “Laura?”

She looked angrily toward the door. She wanted to see Blair, not the bed-hopping toad who’d once broken her heart!

“Laura, honey, I know you’re in there because I heard you.”

Unwillingly, she opened the door. He was the same as ever—golden, tanned, and confident. His designer clothes were casually perfect, and his voice pitched at a calculated note of lazy amusement that had once curled her toes with pleasure, but now grated upon her nerves.

“Hi, honey. Guess you didn’t expect to see me.”

“No, I didn’t expect to see you, and don’t call me honey.”

“Okay, but don’t I at least get a welcoming kiss?”

“Since you’re not welcome, no, you don’t.”

He glanced around. “Have you got someone with you? I heard you talking. Well, maybe not talking exactly. You called someone.”

She looked at him. “I don’t know what you thought you heard, but there’s no one here.”

“I’m not flavor of the month with you, am I?”

“Go to the top of the class.” She turned back into the room, glancing at the watercolor before facing him. “What do you want, Kyle?”

“What kind of question’s that? I’ve come halfway across the world to be patch things up, and you ask me what I want? Well, I want you, Laura.”

“Well, I don’t want you.” Oh, how true it was. She felt nothing for him now, except perhaps irritation.

Ignoring the rebuff, he leaned back against a chair, and surveyed her. “You’re looking good, Laura,” he murmured with a smile.

“And you haven’t changed a bit,” she replied.

He turned smoothly to a different tack. “Look, sweetheart, I’m sorry for the way I treated you. I was a heel.”

“Why the past tense? You were, are, and always will be a heel.”

“I’m different now, really I am.”

“Did hell just freeze over?”

“I guess it must have. Look, Laura, you mightn’t want to believe this, but I didn’t know how much you meant to me until I’d lost you. Let’s try again; I promise it’ll be different this time.”

“I’ve spent the last months forgetting you exist, so if you think I’m going to fall into your arms again, you’re going to be deeply disappointed.”

“Don’t be like this, honey. At least give me a chance.”

“Why should I?”

“Because we once meant a great deal to each other, and I think we can be like that again.”

“God, you amaze me. You think all you have to do is sashay back into my life and pick up where you left off. Well, it doesn’t work like that anymore. I’m over you, Kyle, and that’s the way I want it to stay.”

“There’s someone else?”

She met his eyes squarely. “Yes.”

“Who is he?” he demanded, unaccustomed to rivals.

“Well, since you don’t know him, there’s not much point telling you his name.”

“An English guy?”

“Yes.”

“So who is he?” he insisted.

“All right. Sir Blair Deveril.”

He put on a Noel Coward voice. “Sir? Oh, how terribly, terribly impressive.”

“You never could do a good English accent,” she said crushingly.

He flushed. “And you clearly can’t take a little teasing. I can’t picture

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