Shadows of the Past by Alysha Adams

Author:Alysha Adams
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-58571-641-8
Publisher: Kensington
Published: 2012-05-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nineteen

When Callie pulled into the driveway, she saw Hank and Lulu sitting on the porch. Before she could get out, Hank was at the car door, yanking it open. He took her hand as she slid out and pulled her into his arms. He didn’t have to pull very hard because she was already moving in that direction.

Throwing her arms around his neck, Callie stretched for the kiss he was bending to give her. When their lips met, she opened her mouth eagerly to his questing tongue. There was mutual need, a fierce longing. She willingly melded her body to his, surrendering to his passionate embrace that sought to make her body a part of his. She felt his hands wander down her back and cup her rear, pulling her even closer. Callie was on fire and knew he was, too. The evidence was pressed hard against her lower regions. Finally they broke the kiss, breathless, shaken, dizzy with the unspoken truth that lay between them.

Still holding her in a loose embrace, Hank looked down into her eyes and managed finally to say something. “So I guess you missed me?”

“I guess you could say that,” she answered in a voice that was not quite her own.

Hank grinned. “I don’t know if you noticed, but I’m a little bit glad to see you.”

“Oh, I noticed all right.” She moved closer and stretched upward. This time their lips met in another kiss, a kiss of affirmation, a kiss that promised all manner of things.

Obedient to Hank’s command to stay, Lulu had been pawing the porch, her tail tattooing against the wood. Finally she could stand it no longer. She leaped over the steps and launched herself at them. They went down in a heap, man, woman, and dog. Laughing, Hank pushed Lulu aside and managed to stand and pull Callie to her feet. “I’m guessing that Lulu’s glad to see both of us,” Hank observed.

“You think?” Callie asked. Lulu made quite a chaperone. But she wasn’t so sure that she wanted a chaperone anymore.

“Maybe we’d better go inside and get some dinner,” Hank said.

Callie could swear she saw a flicker of pain in his eyes. What did that mean?

* * *

Hank stood and took the leftover pizza from the box, put it in a big Ziploc, and stashed it in his refrigerator. Then he gathered their paper plates and took them to the garbage can. I guess you’re wondering why I was in San Francisco.” He turned around to face her.

That’s the understatement of the year, Callie thought. They’d come into the house and immediately ordered in. While they waited, they’d talked of this and that, everything except what he’d been doing in San Francisco. Callie had been full of questions, but somehow she’d managed not to ask them.

“A little,” she said.

“You remember I told you there was a little more story to my divorce?”

She nodded.

“Here’s the deal. I got a letter from my ex-wife. According to her there was a kink in the divorce.

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