Twilight by Woods Sherryl

Author:Woods, Sherryl [Woods, Sherryl]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2013-12-01T00:00:00+00:00

16

Dana was still pacing the living room, ranting and raving at Kate about the gall of their recently departed guests, when the phone rang. She snatched up the receiver and snapped a greeting.

“Uh-oh,” Rick said warily. “What has your drawers in a knot, querida?”

With his faintly accented voice, the question had a certain intriguing panache. “Sorry,” she apologized. “It’s been a lousy afternoon.”

“What happened?”

She thought about what actually had happened and concluded that none of it was likely to seem so terrible to an outsider who wasn’t living the nightmare. “Nothing, really.”

“Tell that to someone who’ll buy it. Try again, querida. The people from the church came to call, yes?”

“Oh, yes,” she said, unable to keep a note of bitterness out of her voice.

“And? There were problems?”

“You might say that.”

“Tell me,” he said.

He spoke in a gentle, patient way that suggested whatever she described would be made better for the sharing. Dana wasn’t convinced, but she told him anyway. “They kicked me out of the house.”

“What?”

He sounded satisfyingly incredulous. Dana sighed. “They have the right to do that. It is their house. And I was expecting it. Just not so soon.”

“I’m coming out there,” he announced, and hung up before she could argue that there was no point.

She slowly replaced the receiver in its cradle and turned to find Kate regarding her speculatively.

“Rick, I assume.”

“How did you know?”

“Your color’s better.”

Dana scowled at her. “Oh, go suck an egg.”

Kate burst out laughing. “Sweetie, you’re going to have to do better than that if you’re going to be any match for those jerks who were here this afternoon.”

“Believe me, that was just a warm-up,” Dana assured her, grinning. “I had a very tart tongue before I married a minister and decided I’d better learn to express myself more politely.”

“Spending time with Rick Sanchez ought to help. He is charmingly rough around the edges, wouldn’t you say?”

“Meaning?”

“There’s an aura of barely leashed, street-tough danger about him,” Kate said. “In other words, he’s sexy as hell. I love it that he’s rushing out here to your defense.”

“Who said anything about him rushing out here?”

“Your expression gave it away,” Kate explained cheerfully. “You looked very put out when he hung up on you.”

“How did you know he’d hung up on me?”

“Nobody said goodbye,” Kate replied.

Dana scowled at her. “You really do need to get an investigator’s license. You’re very good at this.”

“It comes from having to be one step ahead of two secretive teenagers.” She tilted her head to one side. “Now, what do you intend to do with him once he gets here?”

“I don’t intend to do anything. I didn’t ask him to come. He invited himself.”

“So you intend to toss him right back out on his ear?”

The prospect of that sight seemed to amuse Kate no end. Dana was thrilled she could provide her friend with so much entertainment.

“No. That would be rude,” she said stiffly. “You, on the other hand...” She allowed the threat to remain unspoken.

Kate chuckled. “I was thinking of going home, anyway, but I’ve changed my mind.

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