Sleeping With the Enemy by Laurie Breton

Author:Laurie Breton
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781478319658
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services
Published: 2002-12-31T17:00:00+00:00

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That night, in bed, he told her about Amanda Ashley. “The girl makes me uncomfortable,” he said. “I don’t know what it is. I’ve been through this before, with other kids. But there’s something about her, something I can’t put my finger on, that tells me to tread carefully.”

“Get her out of your class,” Rose said with a vehemence that surprised him. “Right away.”

He plumped up the pillow and folded his arm beneath his head. “I thought about that. But we’re into the second quarter now. She’s doing passable work. I think I can get this kid through the school year. If we shuffle her around, she’s likely to fail.”

In the darkness, they were both silent. “I don’t suppose,” she said, “that it would ever occur to you to think about your own welfare?”

“I can’t do that, Rose. I’m a teacher.”

“Yes,” she said. “You are. You always give the kids your all, no matter what the cost to you.”

The darkness hid her face, and he didn’t know her well enough yet to gauge her sentiments from her voice alone. “Is that something that bothers you?”

“It’s one of the things I respect the most about you,” she said. “You’re a teacher who really cares about the kids you teach. It’s a rare gift.”

Warmth flooded his body at her words, for they were the last words he’d expected to hear from her. Rose was a chameleon, as unpredictable as the sea, distant and aloof at one moment, warm and inviting the next. It was one of the things that fascinated him the most about her. “Thank you,” he said. “That’s probably the nicest thing you’ve ever said to me.”

Sounding bewildered, she said, “I only speak the truth.”

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