The Jewel of His Collection (Siren Publishing Classic) by Fae Mallory

Author:Fae Mallory
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Siren-BookStrand, Inc.
Published: 2015-04-28T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

Violet gave her calendar a suspicious look as she counted dates for the fifth time. According to the numbers, this wasn’t her fertile time, but her cycle had never been entirely regular. The pill had taken care of that in college, but she’d gone off it in hopes of losing some weight once men became a nonevent in her life. She assumed that if she ever found a boyfriend, they’d take things slowly enough to give her time to get things taken care of before having sex. That was how Violet did things. Careful planning and preparation had served her well throughout her life. When she took risks, she inevitably wound up in tears.

“Dammit,” she muttered, cursing herself for her stupidity. Owensport was a town out of time, something that she normally found charming, but it also meant that things such as over-the-counter Plan B were years away, and with her duties at the museum, there was no way she had time to make a last-second appointment with her gynecologist. For the first time, Violet found herself regretting leaving New York. At least in the city, she’d have access to a safety net.

Unfortunately, she lived in Owensport, not New York, and it was too late to fix this now, meaning that she’d just have to deal with the fact that she’d lost her mind and thrown herself at Ian. She made a mistake, and now she was paying the price. She was going to be biting her nails to the quick until her period showed up—if it showed up. The alternative didn’t bear thinking about, so Violet tried not to think about it, shelving all thoughts of hiring more help for the museum at the same time. Working fourteen hours a day meant that she didn’t have time to think.

Although she tried to shove all thoughts of Ian out of her mind, her heart leaped every time her phone rang, only to come crashing back down in disappointment when it was invariably her sister calling to check on her. On Tuesday, a male voice greeted her when she answered, and Violet swallowed a sob when it asked, “Are we still on for Friday?”

“Hey, Paul,” she murmured, trying not to let him hear her disappointment. He was a nice guy. It wasn’t his fault that he wasn’t Ian.

Violet slapped her hand over her mouth to muffle her nervous giggle when she realized that she, who hadn’t rated a second look from a man in years, had gone from having brunch with Paul on Sunday morning to fucking Ian in the museum only five hours later. There was no need to dress it up in pretty euphemisms. They hadn’t made love—they had fucked.

“Um…yeah. Yeah, we are. How about the Moon & Raven?” The Irish pub was a recent addition to Owensport, and Violet hoped it would be trendy enough to suit Paul’s tastes since he’d expressed displeasure with the town’s lack of nightlife.

Concentrating on where to meet for drinks meant that

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