The Virgin Mistress by Linda Turner

Author:Linda Turner
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Private Investigators, Family, Ranchers, Contemporary, General, Romance, Teachers, Fiction
ISBN: 9780373387052
Publisher: Silhouette
Published: 2001-07-01T07:00:00+00:00

Seven

Forty minutes later, when Rebecca returned to the living room, she looked much more relaxed. She’d changed into faded jeans and an oversized T-shirt and hadn’t bothered with shoes. With her hair still damp from her bath and hanging in ringlets halfway down her back, she looked like a six-year-old.

His green eyes twinkling, Austin grinned. “I didn’t know your hair was naturally curly.”

She wrinkled her nose and self-consciously lifted her hand to her hair to smooth out the wayward curls. “Whenever it gets wet, it has a mind of its own. I always hated it when I was a kid—until I learned how to straighten it.”

“It’s beautiful,” he assured her, and spoke nothing less than the truth. In the late afternoon sunlight that spilled through the west windows, the dark curls were streaked with gold and chestnut highlights. “So how are you feeling?”

“Better,” she replied. “I’m trying not to think about it.”

There was some color back in her cheeks, and her eyes weren’t as haunted as they had been, but they both knew memories of the attack would remain in her system like a virus that sickened with no warning. If she didn’t want it to sneak up on her, she had to keep as busy as possible.

“It might help if you got out of the apartment for a while,” he suggested. “Why don’t we grab something to eat somewhere?”

“Oh, I don’t know,” she hedged, glancing down at her clothes. “I’m not really dressed to go out.”

“Trust me, you’ll fit in perfectly where we’re going,” he assured her with a grin. “C’mon. Let’s go.”

He didn’t give her time to argue, but simply grabbed her purse from where she’d dumped it on the couch when she ran in from school, then hustled her out the door to his car. Ten minutes later, he pulled into the parking lot of a pizza place that catered to kids. Judging from the number of vans in the parking lot, it was the most popular spot in town for families with children.

“I know you deal with kids all day and you might want a break from all that,” he told her, “but if you want a place where you don’t have to think, this is it. The noise level’s got to be through the roof.”

It was. Stepping inside, Rebecca winced as a cacophony of sound hit her right in the face. But Austin was right. She couldn’t hear herself think. Pleased, she grinned and let him lead her to one of the picnic tables that overlooked the game area.

She would have sworn she was still too upset to eat, but Austin kept going back to the buffet line, bringing her every conceivable type of pizza known to man, and it was all delicious. Without quite knowing how it happened, she was sure she ate enough to feed an army.

She couldn’t remember the last time she laughed so much. And it was all because of the kids that roamed the place like a bunch of monkeys that had just been released from the zoo.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.