The Right Jack by Margaret Maron

Author:Margaret Maron [Maron, Margaret]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: detective

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garden. Her bandaged arm made getting out of the low car awkward, so he held the door and offered a strong hand up.

The streetlight down the block glistened on the wet leaves plastered along the sidewalk and haloed Bauman's silver hair as he unlocked her gate and handed back the key.

Moved by an inexplicable need, Sigrid touched his face with her fingertips and lifted her lips to his for a long intense moment.

Naument held her thin body as lightly as if she were a woodland creature that might suddenly turn and flee and looked down into her troubled gray eyes. In the six months that he had known her, it was the first time that she had initiated an embrace.

"Hello?" he said, pleased and yet puzzled.

"I-It's-Oh damn it all, Nauman!" she murmured with her face against his shoulder.

"That's okay, love, I know," he soothed. His fingers tangled in her fine soft hair. "Come home with me, Siga?"

He felt the negative movement of herh ead. "Want me to stay with you?"

"No," she said regretfully, and pushed away from him and opened the wooden door with a deep breath. "I don't know what's the matter with me. I'm being totally unprofessional."

"You're being human," he said gently. "It's allowed."

"Yes. Well." Her voice was wry as she moved through the gate.

The moment had passed. Oscar turned to go. At the curb, he glanced back. The door remained open and he could still see her shadowed form silhouetted against the lights of her apartment.

"Sure you won't change your mind?"

"No."

Her low clear voice was again as cool as the damp October night and the garden door clicked shut between them.

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