Crossing Hearts by Rebecca Crowley

Author:Rebecca Crowley [Crowley, Rebecca]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Kensignton Publishing Corp.
Published: 2017-03-21T07:00:00+00:00

Hi Mom,

It’s been a while since I’ve written to you in this notebook—I guess there was nothing I thought you needed to know.

Tonight there’s something I want to share with you.

I’ve been working as a translator for a new Skyline player. His name is Rio Vidal. He’s handsome, and kind, and I think you would like him a lot…

Chapter 12

“Are you sure you don’t want to come in?”

She did, but she shook her head. “You need to rest.”

She’d repeated those four words time and time again, but she meant it now more than ever. He looked exhausted. On top of the hours of travel to and from Oregon for the midweek match against the Eugene Pines, during the second half of the goalless game he’d taken a late tackle and twisted his knee as he fell. He sprang back up, but by the time the whistle blew he was visibly limping.

He insisted he was fine, but at breakfast that morning he’d confided to Eva that he’d struggled to sleep after the game. He muttered something about the hotel bed and the thermostat, but she suspected pain had kept him awake.

They sat together on the plane and he slept through the entire five-hour flight, slumped against the window. She longed to adjust his pillow or run a soothing hand over his thigh, but she couldn’t. It had only been a few days since their agreement to turn their attraction into a relationship, and between her commitments at the church and his training schedule they’d barely had a moment alone.

Which is why, as he smiled at her from the passenger seat of her rented car, it was so hard to turn down his offer to come inside.

“Call me if you change your mind.”

He leaned over and kissed her, a lingering press of his lips that had fireworks exploding behind her eyes. She pulled back before she lost her nerve.

“Go to bed,” she instructed firmly.

“Only if you come with me,” he countered teasingly, but grabbed his Skyline-branded duffel from the backseat and climbed out of the car. He waved as he made his way to the front door, and as soon as he shut it she backed out of his driveway.

Back at her own home she was restive, tired from the daytime flight but not yet adjusted to the Eastern time zone. She unpacked the small suitcase she’d taken for the short trip, answered a few e-mails and unloaded the dishwasher. She sent some texts, scrolled through Facebook, and finally settled on the couch and clicked through her DVR to find a TV show requiring as little thought as possible.

She was ten minutes into an episode of a dating reality show when her phone rang. She glanced at the screen, then fumbled to mute the TV.

“Miguel, how are you?” she greeted the private investigator.

“Are you sitting down?” he asked in his characteristically curt manner.

Her heart beat so fast she felt nauseous. This was it. The day had finally arrived. After eighteen years apart she’d finally get to see her mom again.

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