The S Before Ex by Mira Lyn Kelly

Author:Mira Lyn Kelly
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2011-09-01T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWELVE

SNOW was falling outside her window. Bits of downy chill chasing through the New York night air in what seemed a shocking contrast to the California sunshine Claire had left behind that morning.

Pulling the thick terry of her robe around her, she turned from the window and crossed back to the couch, dropping into the overstuffed cushions as Sally’s outraged voice spilled across the miles and into her ear.

“You never make this kind of bad decision, Claire. What were you thinking?”

What indeed. Only then she realized, for the first time in five minutes Sally had stopped talking and a response was expected at that point.

There was only one thing she could say.

“I wanted him. I know that sounds crazy, but I honestly couldn’t stop myself. I didn’t even want to.” Tucking her feet beneath her, she snuggled back into the corner and sighed. “It was like there was something unfinished between us—”

“And now it’s done? Now the reasonable woman I know and love like she was my very own blood has returned, ousting the sex-crazed imposter who took over her body these last days. Is that right?”

“Not exactly.” She could still hear him, above her. “Not enough.” That guttural admission that had set her on fire and, even now, made her heat in ways that wouldn’t be satisfied until they met again.

“How, exactly, do you mean not exactly?” Sally demanded, making Claire want to laugh at this impatient show of protection. It had always been the other way around with them. Sally was the vulnerable one. The little sister of her heart, the impetuous girl that Claire protected. It had been that way since she’d found her five years ago outside the gallery. Lost and left behind by a boyfriend who had promised her the world and brought her to New York, only to abandon her with less than seventeen dollars when he met someone who “got him and his vision.” Claire had taken her in. Given her a job and helped her with school. And Sally had given her everything she had in return. They were more like sisters than friends or employer and employee. And Claire had always been the big sister…but today, the roles had reversed.

A part of her wondered if the change had anything to do with Massimo, the man Sally had stayed behind to be with…and now stubbornly refused to discuss, brushing all questions aside with a flat “we’re not talking about me”. Not that the same line had done a thing for Claire. Sally wasn’t having any of it.

She didn’t know how to explain the pull she felt toward Ryan. Didn’t want to explain what she’d never admitted to Sally or anyone but Ryan before—that there had been no one else. That until him, she hadn’t even felt the flicker of a spark toward another man. “It’s different with Ryan. Sally, the way we ended things—there’s so much unresolved between us.”

Ryan had been everything to her. The rising sun, laughter beneath the midday rays, and love through the star-speckled nights.

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