Unforgivable (2010) by Griffin Laura

Author:Griffin, Laura [Laura, Griffin,]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2011-01-14T19:15:23.359000+00:00

CHAPTER 15

She came awake slowly. He watched her. Ric had gotten up earlier to stoke the fire, partly for warmth but mostly so he could look at her in the light of it. He ran his hand over the generous curve of her hip, and her eyes drifted open.

He propped himself up on an elbow. She looked from him to the fire, then back to him again.

“What time is it?” She sat up and pulled the blanket over herself.

“Six.”

He held her gaze for a long moment and saw all of it come back to her, everything they’d done together, in sweet, raunchy detail. She swung her legs out of bed. At some point, they’d unfolded the couch and made it up with blankets, but it was a mess now. Ric would have been happy to mess it up some more, but she grabbed her shirt off the floor and pulled it around her. She gave him a self-conscious smile before slipping away to the bathroom.

So much for jump-starting the day.

He pulled on some clothes and went outside. The air had a bite, which he needed pretty badly, and he did a quick survey of the perimeter before picking up the ax he’d left stuck in the stump near the tool shed. He hacked away at some oak limbs until his shirt was damp and his heart pounded. He had no idea where this pent-up energy was coming from when he’d spent most of the night not sleeping, but he needed to get rid of it.

Fireside Mia was gone, and it was back to reality. Last night had been about avoidance, and Ric was fine with that. He could think of worse ways to procrastinate. But he’d seen regret on her face just now. Embarrassment, too. And it pissed him off.

He returned to the cabin with enough wood to build a bonfire. She was standing at the sink in the light of the window, fully dressed. She’d showered already, and her damp hair was pulled back in a clip.

“I smuggled that evidence out of the crime lab and took it to an incinerator.”

He stared at her back.

“It’s gone.”

Ric dumped the wood onto the floor and walked over to where she stood. Her gaze was fixed on something out the window, but she didn’t seem to be looking at it.

“Say that again.”

“You heard me.” She turned to face him and looked braced for an assault.

“Sit down,” he ordered.

She sank into the chair and looked at him nervously. His alarm grew with every fidget of her hands. She wasn’t joking.

“Someone threatened you?” He had the insane hope that she’d say yes, someone held a gun to her head. Why else would she do it?

“They had Sam. Or at least, they said they did, and I believed them.” She looked down at her lap. “Anyway, it doesn’t matter now. It’s gone. All of it. I watched it burn.”

Ric stared at her. Something about her calm infuriated him. She’d watched it burn. All that evidence. A bitter lump lodged in his throat.

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