Still Waters by Debra Webb

Author:Debra Webb [Webb, Debra]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2016-09-15T05:00:00+00:00

8:15 a.m.

AMBER STARED AT the broth Sean had prepared for her. “I’m sorry. I just don’t think I can do this.” She had no appetite. She felt like hell. Her stomach still felt queasy and crampy.

“Just following the instructions on the discharge papers.” Sean sipped his coffee.

Amber groaned. He was right. She needed to follow the doctor’s orders. Slowly, she lifted the spoon to her lips and tasted. Her stomach clenched, but she kept going. One spoonful after the other, until she emptied the bowl. She washed it down with plenty of water. When she was finished, she pushed the bowl away and summoned a smile. “I feel better already.”

Sean gave that one-sided grin that somehow made him even more handsome. “Liar.”

She laughed. “Yeah. I feel...” She groaned. “Quite blah and very grateful for your quick thinking.”

He gave a nod. “It’s nice to be the hero from time to time.”

Amber studied him a long moment. He really was a nice guy and completely committed to the job. She didn’t see him as the type to fail a client. There had to be more to the story. “You know pretty much everything about me. I’d like to know more about you.”

His relaxed expression hardened the slightest bit. “You know all the important stuff.”

“Wives? Kids? Significant others?”

“Nope, nope and nope.”

“You’ve never been married or engaged?”

He shook his head.

“Long-term relationships?” She reminded herself to sip her water.

“A couple. Nothing particularly memorable.” He stared into his coffee.

“What really happened in LA?” She snapped her lips together. She actually hadn’t been planning to blurt out the question.

He studied her for a long moment before he answered. “I made a mistake.”

“Yeah, that’s what you said before, but I think there’s a lot more to it than just a mistake.” She smoothed a hand over her ponytail. She’d been too exhausted to dry her hair after her shower. Her only option when she’d gotten up was to restrain the wild mass of curls. “I just feel like I deserve full disclosure from the man who’s seen me at my absolute worst.”

His lips quirked with the need to smile in spite of that stony profile. “I guess you have a point there.”

Anticipation zinged through her. “So, let’s hear it.”

“Lacy James was smart and talented. And beautiful,” he said, awe in his voice. “No matter that I worked extra hard to stay focused on the job, I was mesmerized by her. She had this ethereal beauty and incredible depth of soul that no one ever saw onstage.”

“She was incredibly talented and beautiful,” Amber agreed, feeling strangely jealous of the way he described her. For the first time in ages she longed to know a man saw her that way.

“I’d been in LA for six long years. I was lonely. I’d dated plenty between assignments but nothing serious. I was almost twenty-nine and maybe I was feeling the need for something real.”

Amber’s stomach took a little dive, and she was reasonably sure it wasn’t about the poison. She’d been feeling exactly that way—as if something was missing in her life.

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