Cara O'Shea's Return by Mackenzie Crowne

Author:Mackenzie Crowne [Crowne, Mackenzie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: contemporary, Family Life/Oriented
ISBN: 9781628300598
Google: 1vfhAgAAQBAJ
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press Inc.
Published: 2014-02-18T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

The tightly shuttered windows made the studio dark, despite sunset being several hours away. Cara’s muscles ached as if she had been run over by a truck and Daddy didn’t appear much better when she left him.

She now had a better understanding of why he did the things he’d done. Still, she didn’t know yet how, or even if, that understanding would change her feelings about the situation.

Hearing her father professing love at first sight for a woman other than Ma was like taking a fist to the heart, but he was wrong when he said she couldn’t understand the strength of a first love. She did understand.

As a woman, she knew the folly of loving a man like Finn, but if seeing him again had taught her anything, it was that the long held feelings she had for him hadn’t faded with time, despite her efforts to put him from her mind and heart. Her father’s declaration of that same kind of love for a woman Cara thought of only in terms of infidelity, just confused her more than she had already been.

Too strung out to deal with her father’s revelations, or her helpless feelings for Finn, she needed to paint. With that in mind, she tossed her purse and keys on a shelf and headed for her easel. She stumbled to a halt, yelping in terror when a large body rose from behind the counter in the center of the room.

Recognizing Finn in the dim light did nothing to calm her racing heart. “Are you crazy? You scared the hell out of me!”

“I can see that.” Calmness itself, he leaned on the counter with a crowbar in one hand.

“What are you doing here?”

He lifted the crowbar. “Just cleaning up the rest of the carpet tacking.”

“In the dark?”

Hadn’t Ryan finished that task this morning before he left? She eyed Finn suspiciously. With her heartbeat just barely returning to normal, she stomped over to the wall and slapped the light switch, flooding the room with light.

“How did you get in here?” She jammed her fists to her hips. “Breaking and entering is a crime.”

“You don’t say?”

“Are you stalking me?”

“Looks like it.” He shrugged.

“There are laws against that kind of thing, you know.”

“Are you going to call the cops? My cousin is the chief. I could get him for you on his private cell phone.”

Relief and the drop of adrenaline from the fright he had given her must be making her lightheaded. She shook her head and tried not to smile. She failed.

“Small towns,” she grumbled beneath her breath.

“What was that?” Though his smile was teasing, his eyes were intent and she knew he noticed her red rimmed eyes. He didn’t comment on her tear ravaged face, and she was thankful for his restraint.

“I asked how you got in here. I know I locked the doors before I left.”

Shoving his fingers into the front pocket of his jeans, he held up a ring holding two keys and jangled them slightly.

“I used my key.

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