Cinderella Christmas by Elda Minger

Author:Elda Minger [Minger, Elda]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Lorenson
Published: 2013-12-21T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Four

The quiet confines of his car seemed as good a place to start as any.

“Do you mind if we talk about Darcy?”

Silence. Nick wondered what Eve was thinking. He decided to plunge ahead and put her on the hot seat.

“I’ve decided to hire a private detective. I have to find this woman.”

Maurice yipped and Nick smiled as he realized Eve was giving herself away. She’d squeezed her dog a little too tightly. She was nervous. Good.

“Why would you want to do that?”

“I’ll tell you why,” he said. “I’m getting a little angry with the whole situation. I’ve never treated a woman as badly as Darcy treated me, and I’m determined to find out why she did it.” He thought about a talk show he’d seen recently and said, “I need closure.”

“Closure,” she said, the word coming out a breathy squeak.

Oh, it was almost too easy to play with her. For a moment Nick hesitated. Then he steeled his nerve. She was the one who’d started this whole game, now she had to have the strength to face the consequences.

“I don’t mean to be crude, Watson, but I’ve even thought of trying to obtain DNA from those red panties.”

“Oh my God,” she said, and he could hear real fear in her voice. Maurice yipped again.

“You’re squeezing him. Is something wrong?”

“No, it’s just that – have you ever considered the fact that she might not want to be found?”

Strangely enough, Nick sensed that this was the first honest thing Eve had said to him about Darcy in all of their conversations about his mystery woman.

He sighed. It wasn’t in his nature to be cruel or to inflict harm. Yes, he was hurt. Yes, his emotions had been toyed with. Yes, in a weird way, it was as if Darcy were the macho man who had just walked away and refused to spend the night while he’d been the wronged female. But damn it, he had to know why.

“Watson, you know how I’m sure you’ll give me a woman’s viewpoint on any resort we visit?”

“Yes,” she said quietly.

“And I know you’ll always tell me the absolute truth?”

She nodded and he knew she probably didn’t trust herself to speak.

“I need to know why a woman would do something like this. I’m not a man who brags, but I know when a woman’s satisfied in bed, when it’s good for both people. Why would Darcy give me the time of my life and then disappear?”

Silence for almost two minutes. Nick waited. Eve had to give him something. He felt she owed him that much.

“Nick, it’s hard for a man to understand, but in some ways – women haven’t come all that far.”

“Explain please,” he said, keeping his eyes on the freeway. This was the perfect place for this talk. He had a feeling Eve wouldn’t have been able to speak as freely if he’d been looking directly at her. In the dark confines of his car, with his attention on the road, perhaps she’d open up.

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