Truth Or Dare by Jayne Ann Krentz

Author:Jayne Ann Krentz
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Contemporary Romance
ISBN: 9780515138306
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2004-09-13T21:30:21.220000+00:00

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25

Singleton was in his tiny office, staring into the depths of his computer when the door of the shop opened. Bonnie walked in, bringing a few megawatts of the late morning sunshine with her.

“Singleton?”

“Back here.” He tried to ignore the little surge of pleasure that pulsed through him. Keep cool, man. She sees you as a friend, not a lover. You don’t want to screw this up.

He pushed himself back from the computer, took off his glasses and got to his feet “You must be exhausted.” Bonnie came to stand in the narrow doorway. “I understand that Ethan woke you up around three this morning to ask you to start working on this situation involving Arcadia.” She held up a large paper cup bearing the logo of a Fountain Square espresso bar. “I thought that by now you could use some caffeine.”

“You thought right.” He took the coffee from her, peeled off the lid and took a long swallow. When he was finished, he lowered the cup with a sigh of satisfaction. “Thanks. I needed that. You were right about that threeA .M. call from your brother-in-law. Lucky for him he’s a friend as well as an occasional client.”

No point telling her that when he’d picked up the phone and heard Ethan’s somber, coolly urgent voice on the other end of the connection, panic had hit him with the force of a hammer in the gut. For a few dazed seconds he’d been afraid that the late night call signaled bad news about Bonnie or one of the boys. In that short space of time his world had started to shatter and collapse around him.

When he’d learned that the threat had nothing to do with Bonnie, Jeff or Theo, he’d been so relieved that he immediately felt a pang of guilt. After all, he liked Arcadia a lot. She was a friend, and the knowledge that she was in danger worried him. But the concern he felt for her was not the same kind of bone-deep fear he knew he would experience if Bonnie or one of the boys was in harm’s way.

Face it, Cobb, you’ve got it bad.

Bonnie removed a plastic container from another paper sack.

He studied it with interest. “What have we here?”

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“Tuna fish.”

He took the container from her and opened it with a sense of anticipation. “On rye. My favorite.”

Bonnie chuckled. “You always say that. No matter what I feed you, you always tell me it’s your favorite.”

He removed one half of the plump, neatly sliced sandwich and took a bite. “That’s because it’s the truth.”

She smiled, looking quietly satisfied, and watched him demolish the first half of the sandwich.

“I understand that you and Jeff had a talk,” she said when he paused to drink more coffee.

“Jeff told you about it?”

“He said that you explained to him that he didn’t have to worry about remembering exactly what Drew looked like. That no matter what happened he would never forget his father.

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