Wicked Lovers 02 Decadent by Shayla Black

Author:Shayla Black [Black, Shayla]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2010-08-14T03:00:00+00:00

“That sounds good,” her father praised. “Who are you sending it to?”

Kimber hesitated. Good question. What was the fastest way for this news to both reach Deke and Luc, while giving the reporters enough so they’d eventually go away?

Suddenly, she smiled. “The world.”

It took nearly an hour, but she drudged up e-mails to every major news outlet she could think of. Then pressed Send. #

Two hours later, Kimber sat out on the back patio, enjoying the sunset, despite the summer heat, when her phone rang for the umpteenth time, finally displaying the name and number she’d been hoping to see.

“Luc?”

“Sweetheart, is that really your statement on the news, the one about the engagement being over?”

So he had seen it. And he sounded damn hopeful, too. She smiled. “Yeah.”

The question was, had Deke seen it?

“When did you decide to break it off?”

She sent him an ironic laugh. “The night he announced to the world we were getting married without asking me first.”

“He never asked you?”

“We’d talked about it in the past, so he assumed… I called you yesterday to tell you my plans.”

“I hate that I missed your call. I had to take a quick trip.”

At the mention of his trip, he sounded…distracted. No, upset. Hmm, something. “Everything all right?”

“Yes,” Luc finally said after hesitating. “Just something in Louisiana… I—It’s no big… It’s not important. What’s more important is you breaking the engagement. Tell me, did you call me because you want to come back here, to be with us?”

Kimber bit her lip and steeled herself to hear the worst. Luc would welcome her, but Deke…

“Yeah. I was hoping to tell you first.” Her stomach jumped, coiled into unrelenting knots. Sitting here worrying wasn’t going to solve anything. “And that you’d tell Deke and get his reaction.”

“Deke heard the news about your engagement when I did.” Luc hesitated again, this time for longer. “He was furious. He thought you’d said yes to Jesse. Slept with him. Were in love with him.”

If he was furious, that meant he still cared, right? “What do you think his reaction will be when he finds out none of that is true?”

“None of it? You weren’t in love with Jesse?”

“I thought I was, before you two. I realize now it was every bit the schoolgirl crush that Deke accused me of having.”

“You didn’t have sex with Jesse?”

“No. No real interest on either part, to be honest. Him because he wanted to keep me a ‘good girl’ so I could save him from his depraved life, and me because…he wasn’t the man on my mind. I didn’t want him.”

“Oh, sweetheart.” Luc’s happiness vibrated across the phone. “You don’t know what a relief that is. What a relief that will be to Deke.”

“Do you think so?”

“Yes. Not that he’ll admit it.” Kimber heard the irony in Luc’s voice.

“Do you think he’ll welcome me back?” Kimber stood and paced across the front porch. She couldn’t just sit and wait for this answer. Too much of her future was riding on it.

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