Welcome to Carson Springs by Eileen Goudge

Author:Eileen Goudge [Goudge, Eileen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-4532-6116-3
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2011-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

From

STRANGER IN PARADISE

BOOK ONE OF THE CARSON SPRINGS TRILOGY

“SAM.” A FAMILIAR VOICE, low and musical.

She turned around, startled to find Ian standing before her. How had he managed to sneak in without her noticing? Heat rushed up into her cheeks, and she darted a furtive glance over her shoulder. No one was looking their way. “What are you doing here?” she whispered.

He flashed her an easy grin. “I didn’t realize I needed an invitation.”

“You know what I mean.”

He didn’t appear the least bit fazed. In the same unhurried voice, he asked, “Is there somewhere we can talk? In private?”

She cast another glance over her shoulder. Laura was waiting on someone, and only one other customer was wandering about. “All right,” she said, “but only for a minute.”

She led the way to the tiny office in back, just large enough for a desk and file cabinet. There was no point offering him a seat. She nudged the door shut with her heel. The pounding of her heart seemed to fill the tiny, windowless space.

She didn’t wait for him to speak. “Ian, listen, yesterday was … unbelievable. I don’t regret it for a moment. But it can’t go any further.” She closed her eyes, leaning against the file cabinet. The metal felt cool against her burning skin.

“Because of the age thing?” He sounded more puzzled than anything.

“It’s complicated.”

“It doesn’t have to be.”

“For you.”

“For either of us.”

He stepped toward her, and suddenly she was in his arms. Oh God. How easy it was, like sliding into a warm bath. As if her mind had become separated from her body somehow. A body with a will of its own. She felt his mouth on hers, his sly tongue….

Just this once, she pleaded, as if to some higher authority. After that, no more. If she was to have any chance of resisting him in the days to come she’d have to end it. Here. Now.

The question was, How?

Wrapped in Ian’s arms, lost in a kiss with no beginning and therefore no end, Sam wasn’t aware of the door easing open behind her.

“Oh God, I’m sorry. I didn’t realize.”

Sam broke away from Ian. Her daughter stood in the doorway, gaping as if at a car wreck. Cheeks flushed and eyes wide with horror, a corner of her mouth flickering in an interrupted smile. Then, with a tiny cry, Laura scurried off.

Alice was showered and dressed before Wes was even up, yesterday’s conversation with her sister still echoing in her head. To think this had been going on the whole time she’d been on her honeymoon, and she was only just hearing about it. Couldn’t Laura have dropped her a line?

Breakfast was a slice of buttered toast washed down with black coffee strong enough to jump-start a battery. Then she was out the door, leaving her husband to weed through three weeks’ worth of mail. She hadn’t driven more than a hundred yards when she fished her cell phone from her purse and punched in Laura’s number.

“It’s me.

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