The Game of Love by Heather Graham

Author:Heather Graham [Graham, Heather]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781488024856
Publisher: MIRA
Published: 1986-08-29T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 8

Seconds later Jade was standing in her living room, amazed that he could be so angry with her when she was the one who had been wronged. But he was angry—terribly so. He paced the floor, casting her gazes that spoke of a wealth of emotion just barely held in control.

“What the hell is the matter with you? Running out like that! You weren’t dragged into anything, you weren’t coerced, and I was under the impression that you cared. Deeply. Yet all of a sudden you’re hopping about like a teenager caught in the act by her parents. Damn it, Jade! I didn’t ask her to come to Miami, but I can hardly forbid her to set foot in the city.”

“Wait a minute! Wait just a minute! Your ex-wife crashes in on us and you’re yelling at me?”

“I didn’t go running out like a frightened rabbit!”

“And why would you have? You were the one she was there to see. You told me that you’ve slept with her since the divorce.”

“I told you how long ago it was, too. And that we were never, never—in a thousand years never—going to get back together. Nice damned couple we make.”

“Couple? Aren’t you assuming a lot after just one afternoon?”

“Couple! And no I’m not assuming anything on that score. Hell, what is this? You sound as if you’d like to gift wrap me and hand me back to Diana. If you were ashamed of being in bed with me, maybe you shouldn’t have been there at all.”

“Maybe I shouldn’t have been.”

He chose to ignore that.

“And if you weren’t ashamed, you shouldn’t have run out as if you were.”

He’d stopped pacing. He was staring straight at her. Challenging her, daring her—or pleading with her? She didn’t know.

“If you mean so little to each other,” Jade shouted, “why would she just waltz in on you like that?”

“Because we’re not enemies!” Jeffrey shouted back. He raked his fingers through his hair and drew in a deep breath. “Jade, she missed Ryan. She came down, and Toby told her where to find me. I left the door open—I thought that I’d locked it.”

Jade was silent for a second. She couldn’t seem to think rationally. She had finally gone to bed with a man, a man she had been falling in love with, a man she had thought too perfect to be true. Idiot…well, she probably deserved this one. She’d known there was an ex-wife. What had she expected?

She’d expected Diana to stay in Chicago where she belonged.

“Dammit, Jade, do you care or not?”

Care? Yes, she cared. More than she wanted to admit. But she was frightened, too.

“I—”

“What?”

“Stop yelling at me! Yes! I care! That’s why I’m frightened, you idiot! She’s so beautiful, how can I compete? And you two are still so friendly. It unnerves me and it scares me and I don’t know if I’m being an idiot—or intelligent enough to see what the outcome of all this might be.”

He turned around and slammed a fist against the wall.

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