The Last Goodbye

Author:Sarah Mayberry [Mayberry, Sarah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Going Back
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2011-02-01T00:00:00+00:00

THAT NIGHT, TYLER SAT at the kitchen table and tried to concentrate on his design drawings instead of the racket in the living room and the one-track record in his head.

His father was watching television, the volume through the roof, as usual. And Tyler couldn’t stop thinking about Ally.

It wasn’t simply because she’d rejected him. Sure, he had a healthy ego, same as the next guy, and it stung a little to be dismissed so easily. But it wasn’t pique that kept her in his thoughts.

He couldn’t work her out. The visits to his father, the caramel slice, the way she’d appointed herself his father’s champion and confronted Tyler on his father’s behalf—they were all the acts of a caring, generous, nurturing person. And yet she wasn’t prepared to give the connection between them a chance to become something more than sexual attraction and a whole lot of like.

A few years ago, Tyler would have taken up her no-strings-sex offer and run with it. He would have taken her to bed and explored every inch of her body and walked away the next morning with no regrets. But he was thirty-seven years old, and he’d been around enough to know when something had the potential to be good. He didn’t want a single night. He didn’t want to explore only Ally’s body, he wanted to explore her mind, the person who looked out at him through those warm brown eyes. He wanted to start something that had no end date. Something with a future.

Ally, on the other hand, had made it very, very clear that she wasn’t interested in pursuing any connection that might develop into a relationship. She was leaving in a few weeks time. No matter what.

Tyler rested his elbows on the table, reflecting that if a mate came to him and told him the same story about a woman he was hooked on, Tyler would have no hesitation in labeling the woman Too Much Trouble. Ally was too much trouble. She looked at him with naked desire, then held him at arm’s length and told him he could have only so much and no more. She offered him friendship and comfort and understanding, but refused to consider anything else.

Like he said, too much trouble. Yet here he sat, literally unable to get her out of his thoughts.

You’re officially a sad sack, buddy.

In the living room, his father’s voice rose briefly above the din of the television. No doubt he was yelling at a contestant on one of the many game shows he loved to watch. There was no point asking if his father would mind reducing the volume to a more sociable level—Tyler had already tried that three times. Each time his father grudgingly reduced the sound, only for it to creep up in increments until it was once again making the windows vibrate in their frames.

He was rubbing his forehead and contemplating the purchase of a pair of really efficient noise canceling earphones when his phone rang, sending the handset buzzing across the kitchen table.

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