The Baby Pursuit

Author:Laurie Paige [Paige, Laurie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: C429, Extratorrents, Kat
Publisher: Silhouette
Published: 2012-01-01T06:00:00+00:00

Eight

“Just what are we looking for?”

Vanessa stretched her weary back. Bending over for hours, staring at the ground, was not her idea of an investigation, especially after spending the night lying on the ground. Although being in Dev’s arms had been heavenly.

“Clues.”

“This has all been done before,” she reminded him. “Wyatt and his men were very thorough.”

Dev straightened and looked at her, but said nothing.

She sighed. “Yeah, the spoiled brat syndrome.”

He chuckled. “The Fortune impatience.”

“That sounds better.”

She sat on one of the boulders beside the dry creek in the front courtyard and shook a pebble from her shoe. Dev patiently turned over every rock and fallen leaf. His white shirt strained across his shoulders as he bent to his task again. His jeans outlined the hard thighs and buttocks.

Her adult life had been more attuned to books and thinking than the physical, but now she found herself acutely aware of his body and her own. She wanted to be near him all the time. He never left her thoughts.

Dreamily, she watched as he slowly filtered through every phase of their lives and the daily routine of the ranch. He knew every chore to be done and who performed it. He knew who went where and when they came back. He knew things he wasn’t telling her.

Some of it was about them.

She had tried to tactfully draw him out about his morning chats with her father, but he only smiled and shook his head at her inquisition.

But his eyes…they made her want to weep. Instead of their intimacy dispelling the loneliness, it had only increased, drawing him deeper into himself even while he smiled and teased her.

Oh, if only you could see what I see, she wanted to cry. What a fine, decent person you are, the life we could share, the future we could build…

But she couldn’t tell him. He would have to find the truth for himself if they were to ever have a chance.

“So take what the day presents and make the most of it,” she said aloud.

He glanced her way again, his eyes dark and quiet and so very gentle in his regard of her. He broke her heart.

Sobered by her thoughts, she started searching once more. They worked until noon, then stopped in the glaring heat of the day and retreated inside. Dev worked alone in the office after a quick lunch. When she took him a fresh glass of iced tea at three, she overheard him talking to his boss.

“No, nothing,” he said. He murmured a thanks to her, then went back to his phone conversation.

She lingered, wanting to be near him. The futile search had deepened her anguish about Baby Bryan. She couldn’t—wouldn’t believe he was dead. But she worried about him.

“The end of the month,” Dev said. He flicked her a glance before running a finger down the desk calendar.

Her heart gave a giant lurch. She pressed a hand to her chest. Dev frowned slightly. She turned to leave, knowing he didn’t like her invading the office.

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