Strong Enough to Love by Dahl Victoria

Author:Dahl, Victoria [Dahl, Victoria]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2013-02-28T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FOUR

“YOU LOOK AMAZING!” Grace said once she’d gotten half her coffee down.

Eve ducked her head and stared harder at the proofs she was examining on her laptop. She’d expected to toss and turn all night. She’d expected to be racked with heartbreak. Instead, she’d fallen into bed and slept like a woman who... Well, a woman who’d just had the best sex of her life.

Christ, it had been so good. Everything else aside, how was she going to live without that for another fifty or sixty years? Knowing she’d had that and wouldn’t again? She scowled.

“What is going on with you? Why are you growling at the proofs?”

“I’m not growling.”

“Okay, tiger. I guess that’s a perfectly normal photography-related sound.”

“You get more annoying every day, you know that?”

“What’s that red mark on your neck?”

Eve jumped so violently that the stool shifted under her and she had to grab the counter to keep from tumbling to the floor. She raised her head slowly to find Grace standing there, arms crossed, and a huge grin spreading over her face. It was the most delighted she’d ever looked.

“I hate you,” Eve whispered.

“Spill it.”

“No.”

Grace nodded. “You took that cute guy home from the party?”

“I did not! He was still there when I left.”

“Booty call?”

“No!”

“That must be a hell of a new vibrator, then. I’ll need the make and model, please.”

An image of Brian, naked and boxed and wrapped in a bow, flashed through Eve’s brain. “It’s not... He’s not...”

Grace raised an eyebrow, and Eve slumped in defeat.

“I don’t know what I’m going to do,” she whispered.

“Oh. Hey.” Grace’s grin disappeared and she stepped forward to put a careful hand on Eve’s shoulder. “I’m sorry. I thought this was just about sex.”

“It is,” Eve insisted, but her voice was too desperate to fool even the dullest friend, and Grace was sharp as a razor.

“Eve,” she scolded, but the word was mostly worry. “Are you okay?”

She wanted to say yes. She meant to say yes. But instead she told the truth. “No, actually. No, I’m not okay.”

“All right.” Grace scooted around the long counter and locked the door. Then she turned the sign to CLOSED.

“What if we have a customer?”

“It’s March. The only customers are locals. We’ll reopen in a few minutes and they’ll come back.”

“Fine.” She followed Grace into the office and dropped resentfully into a chair.

“What’s going on with you?” Grace demanded, then seemed to realize her tough-girl attitude was the wrong call and softened her voice. “I mean... What’s wrong?”

Eve opened her mouth. And she closed it. She shouldn’t have admitted anything. She should have kept quiet. But the words pushed at her from the inside. She’d never been able to say anything to anyone. He was married. People had known his wife. Eve’s heart had been breaking, her dreams in turmoil, and all she’d ever done was keep working. Keep moving. Because if she’d ever stopped, it would have caught up with her.

But now she wanted it out.

“I fell in

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