Welcome to Temptation by Jennifer Crusie

Author:Jennifer Crusie [Crusie, Jennifer]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780312366834
Amazon: 0312366833
Publisher: St Martins Pr
Published: 2006-01-02T08:00:00+00:00

The council meeting the next day went so badly that Phin was still reeling from it when his mother cornered him in the empty council room.

“About this woman,” she said. “You can’t see her again.”

“I did my damnedest to stop that permit vote, and Stephen got it through anyway because you turned on me.” Phin sat down on the council table, fuming. “What the hell were you thinking of?”

“That movie company can do us no good,” Liz said. “Zane Black visited everybody on the council this morning, trying to get them to stop the filming, and that’s made everybody suspicious. I don’t want us to do anything that aligns us with them. You cannot go back out there. That woman—”

“I like that woman,” Phin said. “She’s a hell of a lot more comfort than you are. You knew damn well—”

“Will you at least think of Dillie?” Liz said.

Phin frowned at her. “What’s Dillie got to do with this?”

“You might think of her future while you’re unzipping your pants,” Liz snapped.

“You have to be kidding me,” Phin said. “If every parent thought about his kid before sex, the race would die out.”

“What happens when she finds out about this? What happens when she wants to meet this woman?”

“She’s not going to meet her,” Phin said. “And I get to have a life, too, you know.”

“You put your child first,” Liz said flatly.

“You never did,” Phin said, just as flatly, and Liz took a step back, as if she’d been struck. “And you know it,” he said when she didn’t say anything. “You didn’t even know I was there if Dad was in the room. And when he wasn’t, I only had half your attention because you were waiting for him to show up.”

“Phin,” Liz said.

“It’s all right.” Phin sat back, trying not to take his frustration out on his mother, no matter how much she deserved it. “The older I get, the more I envy what you and Dad had. I’d watch him come up those steps at night, looking old and tired and miserable, and then he’d see you, and his face—” He stopped because Liz’s face had crumpled and he thought she might cry. It’s about time, he thought, and when she didn’t, he said, “You made the world go away for each other.”

Liz tightened her jaw. “Don’t.”

“I thought I was going to get that, too,” Phin said. “I thought it just came with the wedding ring, that feeling that the world was all right because two people were together.” He laughed shortly. “Found out I was wrong about that.”

Liz rallied. “That was not your fault. That was—”

“That was my fault,” Phin said. “I thought what you had was easy. Now I know better, and I’m not settling. I get what you had or I don’t get married. Which doesn’t mean I can’t have a good time while I’m waiting for the right woman.”

“Damn few people get what we had,” Liz said. “And you pay for it. You pay a lot for it.

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