Star Crossed by Christine Pope

Author:Christine Pope [Pope, Christine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
ISBN: 9780692358443
Amazon: B00P39H1YQ
Barnesnoble: B00P39H1YQ
Goodreads: 23557329
Publisher: Dark Valentine Press
Published: 2014-12-28T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

They dropped Logan and me off at the cottage, and zoomed away as quickly as the slick streets would allow. It seemed clear enough that Kirsten didn’t want to waste any more time before settling down to hack at the alien computer.

Logan watched them disappear around the corner, a frown tugging at his brow. I felt uneasy myself, although I couldn’t say why. Maybe it was just that I was cold and damp.

That would be easy enough to remedy, though. I unlocked the door and let us in, then stopped to hang my coat on the rack. It was wool treated to repel water, but there was only so much it could do before it started to get waterlogged. I owned more weather-worthy jackets, but I hadn’t thought I’d need something like that on this trip, since they were the sort of thing I wore when I went hiking, and this holiday trip to Sedona had originally been intended as more of an indoor kind of visit.

“Hey,” I said to Logan, who was still looking worried, mouth tight. “It’ll be all right. We can thaw out a little, change into some dry clothes, and then we’ll go to the store and load up on all kinds of fun stuff. How about some fondue and an amusing cabernet?”

He didn’t smile. “Fondue?”

“Melted cheese that you eat with bread. The perfect thing for having a picnic in front of the fireplace.” I went to him and put my arms around him, and, after a brief hesitation, he responded, holding me in a tight embrace. We stood that way for a moment, and then I said, “I’m sorry you had to go back there.”

“It’s all right. It’s important to have as much data as possible.” A second ticked by, and then another. I could feel his hand moving up to brush against the damp ends of my hair. “It is…kind…of your aunt and uncle not to say anything about me.”

“My Aunt Kirsten is definitely cool,” I said. “That is, I think she understands. She told me once that she felt as if she never really fit in, but she always thought it was because her mother had taken off when she was so little, that she’d been raised by her grandparents. But then when she found out that Gabriel was her father, and what he actually was, she realized she’d felt that way because she really was different.”

The day my aunt and I had talked was just as vivid to me now as it had been eight years ago, when I’d had a blowout with my mother over my decision to go to school in Tucson rather than staying safely up here in northern Arizona. It hadn’t helped that I’d broken up with my boyfriend right before homecoming. I hadn’t wanted to, but he’d been putting way too much pressure on me. Not that kind of pressure — I’d lost my virginity to him that summer, while his parents were visiting family in Scottsdale and we had the house to ourselves for the day.

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