Ten Years Later... by Marie Ferrarella

Author:Marie Ferrarella
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2013-12-26T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

He was pacing.

Sebastian forced himself to stop. The thing of it was, he hadn’t been aware that he was doing it until just now.

This was stupid. Why was he pacing and looking out at the driveway every time he passed the window? He was an adult, not a kid fresh out of puberty. It wasn’t supposed to matter to him one way or another if Brianna moved into his house.

His house.

He laughed shortly. After all this time, he still thought of the place where he’d grown up as his house. His home. His home even though for the past four years, he’d lived in a sleek, ultramodern apartment in Tokyo.

But this was home and Brianna was moving into it. And despite his attempt at a devil-may-care, nonchalant attitude, he kept right on glancing through the window. Moreover, he was listening for the sound of an approaching vehicle.

And when he finally heard it, his damn pulse quickened.

To make matters worse, when he turned, he nearly tripped over his mother’s damn cat. Stopping short of just clipping the feline’s nose with the tip of his shoe, he managed to catch himself just in time.

He bit back a curse. “Damn it, Marilyn, you’re going to wind up flatter than a pancake if you don’t stop getting in my way.”

Marilyn strolled out of the way, completely unfazed by the fate she’d almost suffered.

When Brianna pulled up into the driveway—at exactly the time she’d told his mother she would arrive—he was at the front door before she had even turned off the CR-V’s engine.

Getting out of the vehicle, she looked at Sebastian quizzically. Had there been a change in plans? She couldn’t think of another reason for him to have come out to meet her car so quickly.

“Hi,” she said a bit uncertainly, waiting for him to say something that would tell her what was going on.

But all Sebastian said in response to her greeting was a more formal “Hello.”

Rounding the hood, she made her way over to the passenger side and then opened the rear door.

“We’re here, honey,” she told Carrie as she leaned in and began removing her daughter from her car seat. Sparing Sebastian a glance, she gave in and finally asked, “What are you doing here?”

He’d been asking himself that all day. He said, “I used to live here, remember?”

“Yes, I know that. That’s not what I meant.” And you know it. “You came out the minute my tires hit your driveway. Something wrong?” she asked. She scooped Carrie up in her arms and then set her down.

Carrie’s attention, like her own, was focused on Sebastian.

“No,” he replied, wondering why she would think there was something wrong—other than his having stepped out of her life for the past ten years. “I just thought I’d see if you needed any help moving in.”

Something told her that wasn’t all, but she let it go. Maybe she was just overthinking things. She’d been doing that since she’d bumped into Sebastian—and all those memories—at the reunion.

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