The Blaze Collection by Stephanie Bond & Leslie Kelly & Kate Hoffmann

Author:Stephanie Bond & Leslie Kelly & Kate Hoffmann
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2010-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

chapter eight

Groundhog Day

“HONEY, why don’t you just fly to Pittsburgh and see him?”

Amanda averted her eyes, not wanting to hear another lecture from Ginny, their administrative assistant, who stared at her from across her paper-laden desk. The older woman had figured out months ago that Amanda was involved with someone. She had finally gotten her to talk about Reese after the holidays. Probably because Amanda had walked around with a constant frown on her face since she’d arrived home.

As she’d flown back to Chicago on January 2, she’d wondered if it was time to end the affair. The intimate conversation she’d shared with Reese, and the way he’d made such sweet, tender love to her afterward, had convinced her she had to at least call a time-out, if not quit the game altogether.

Damn the man for slipping past her defenses, breaching her outer walls. Somehow, he’d worked his way into her previously brittle heart. That could be the only explanation for why she’d opened up to him the way she never had to anyone else before.

She’d told him such dark, ugly things about herself, it was a wonder he hadn’t run screaming into the night.

It wasn’t that she minded so much that she cared for him. The problem was, caring for him meant she wanted to be with him, to keep going with this thing that had sprung up between them. And that, she greatly feared, would not be good in the long run…for Reese. Having feelings for the man meant she didn’t want to see him hurt. And she especially didn’t want to be the one doing the hurting.

But it was inevitable, wasn’t it? Just a foregone conclusion? When the going got tough, Amanda hit the skies.

“Would you talk some sense into her?” another voice said.

Jazz had come into the office, wearing a pair of her mechanic’s overalls. A smear of grease on her cheek and the sweat on her brow made her hard labor obvious, but didn’t diminish her earthy beauty one bit. “I swear to God, Manda, if you don’t call the dude, I’m gonna leave a wrench in your aft engine and just let you fall out of the sky and put us all out of your misery.”

Amanda rolled her eyes, feeling very much ganged-up on. “I saw him on Martin Luther King day, and I talk to him every few days.”

The government holiday had been a busy one, and a weekday. She hadn’t been able to take time off for any out-of-town tryst. But she had arranged for a three-hour layover at the Philadelphia airport. Reese had driven all the way there…and spent those three hours doing incredible things to her in the cockpit of her plane.

She thrust away the warm, gooey feeling those memories inspired. “It’s not like I’ve ended it.”

“Uh-huh. But you’re planning to,” Jazz said knowingly. Ginny nodded in agreement. “Definitely.”

She glared at both of them. “It was never meant to be serious. My God, we live in two different states.”

“And you fly a plane for a living,” Jazz retorted.

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