all for quinn by kay hooper

Author:kay hooper
Language: eng
Format: azw
ISBN: 9780553444018
Publisher: Loveswept
Published: 1993-01-02T05:00:00+00:00

SIX

By the time Morgan returned to the living room a little more than a quarter of an hour later, she felt much better physically. She’d washed away the grime of the fire escape and the memory of chloroform, carefully rubbed liniment on her sore ankle (the skin wasn’t broken, but there was a nasty bruise), and thought about all he’d told her tonight.

The only certainty she had reached when she returned to him was the rueful knowledge that she had fallen for an extremely complex man she might never fully understand even after a lifetime of knowing him. On the other hand, he was also the most intriguing, baffling, maddening, exciting man she’d ever known, and impossibly sexy to boot.

None of that was a revelation, of course, except for her acceptance of her own feelings. And, being Morgan, once she accepted them, that particular struggle was over. After all, what was the use of kicking and screaming about something beyond one’s power to change? She might be the last woman in the world who should have fallen in love with a famous cat burglar, but the fact remained that she had.

Dealing with it was the issue now.

After careful thought, Morgan very deliberately dressed in a loose and comfortable outfit consisting of baggy sweatpants and sweatshirt, with her only pair of bedroom slippers (ridiculously fuzzy things) on her feet. Hardly sexy attire. She had no intention of throwing herself at him yet again, and trusted that he would get the point.

Being Quinn, of course, he did.

“Where did you get the blanket?” she asked calmly as she limped back into the living room. The blanket had been folded up and placed over the back of a chair, catching her attention when she came in.

He had been on the couch looking rather broodingly at an old black-and-white movie on television, and got to his feet as soon as she spoke. His gaze scanned her from head to toe, and a faint gleam was born in the green eyes.

“Jared brought it when I called him to come relieve me on watch,” he answered, then further explained by adding, “We have a cellular phone in case of emergencies.”

“Ah. I wondered.”

“Feeling better?”

“Heaps. Don’t I look it?”

“Fishing, Morgana?”

“Curious.”

He smiled. “I get the point, if that’s what you’re wondering. But I think I should tell you that you’d look sexy draped in sackcloth.”

She eased down on the other end of the couch and looked up at him expressionlessly. “I always wondered what that was. Sackcloth, I mean.”

“A very rough, coarse cloth.”

“That was what I thought. But I wasn’t sure. Did you happen to earn a college degree in the history of fashion?”

“No.”

Morgan waited, one eyebrow rising, and Quinn suddenly uttered a low laugh.

“Actually, I have a law degree.”

For an instant she wanted to laugh, but managed to control the impulse. “I see. Well, at least you completely understood the laws you were breaking.”

“I’ll get the coffee,” Quinn said, retreating.

Morgan smiled to herself, then searched among the pillows on the couch for the remote and turned the television off.

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