Code Name: Willow by Paula Graves

Author:Paula Graves [Graves, Paula]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Paula Graves
Published: 2011-06-16T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

Maggie's gaze darted around the empty great room. Apprehension rose in the back of her throat. "Remy?"

"Maybe he went outside." Jack headed for the back door, while Maggie checked the bedrooms and the bathroom off the smaller bedroom, heart sinking.

Remy was in none of those places.

Almost the last thing Remy said to her was that he thought he should leave. Had he run away?

Why hadn't she stayed out in the great room with him instead of cornering Jack in the? What was wrong with her?

She was losing control of everything. Her body, her mind and now her heart, all over a man who'd made it clear ten years ago that he didn't love her the way she loved him.

Focus, Maggie. Remy comes first. He has to come first.

As she returned to the great room, she heard the back door open and the sound of Jack's voice. Remy's younger voice answered, and Maggie nearly wilted with relief. She found them in the kitchen, Remy gazing up at Jack with a pleading expression. "Come on, it'd be just like camping."

"After the scare you just gave us, you think I'm going to let you out of my sight?" Jack growled. The tremor behind Jack's anger drew Maggie's gaze his way. The look he gave the boy was full of tender exasperation.

Her breath caught. How many times had he looked at her exactly that same way ten years ago? Back then, she'd seen only the frustration, the carefully controlled anger. How had she missed the affection so evident to her now?

Remy turned to Maggie. "I didn't run away or nothin'! I just went exploring. Tell him, Doc!"

Maggie dragged her gaze from Jack's face. "No, Remy. You went exploring without telling anyone where you were going. I don't think you should be rewarded for that."

"You two were takin' forever in the bathroom." Remy made a face. "And what was that about, anyway?"

Flushing, Maggie glanced at Jack and saw the same tender frustration on his face that she'd seen when he was talking to Remy. But smoldering beneath it all was desire, fierce and unquenched by their bathroom encounter.

Remy went on, ignoring the heated undercurrent flowing between Maggie and Jack. "Aw, come on, I just wanted to look around. I found a big ol' bunkhouse in the woods, just a little ways behind the house, Doc. It's really cool! It's got, like, a bunch of beds and a bathroom and a wood stove! I never seen a wood stove before, except in books."

"You read books?" Jack asked, his voice gruff.

"One with a lot of pictures." Remy rolled his eyes. "Look, I'm sorry I freaked y'all out, but come on! I've always wanted to stay in a bunkhouse."

"Bunkhouse?" Maggie looked to Jack for more information.

"My client keeps this place for hunting. Sometimes he brings his wife and daughter for the weekend, so he built this house so they'd have somewhere comfortable and modern to stay. But when it's just him and his friends, here for a hunting weekend, they use the bunkhouse.

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