Girl Gear 6: Indiscreet by Alison Kent

Author:Alison Kent [Kent, Alison]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
Publisher: Harlequin Blaze
Published: 2004-01-10T05:00:00+00:00

PATRICK DIDN’T RETURN to the loft for hours. Annabel half expected him not to show at all after exposing himself as he had. He’d revealed more today than he had during their past seven weeks together, and no doubt regretted every word.

Especially the admission of holding tight to his past.

It was obscenely tragic, yes, and a past she would never expect him to forget. But he’d told her not to try to make things easier on him. She couldn’t help but take that to mean that he wasn’t willing to move on. And she had always been about moving on, doubly so these days.

In fact, she’d spent the quiet evening online exploring career opportunities on job-search Web sites. She’d managed, as well, to get a peek at the workings of the crime labs in several cities via newsgroups and message boards where professionals shared stories and discussed the methodology of forensics.

Unfortunately, a peek was all she’d gotten, as her concentration skills were shot. No matter that she’d convinced herself Patrick would distract her from deciding what direction best suited her future, she was rapidly becoming her own worst enemy in that regard. Too often she caught herself wondering what he would think about leaving Houston should work in her new field take her out of state.

The third or fourth time she’d entertained such aberrant thoughts, she’d admitted it was time for sleep. Her loss of focus, she’d decided, had to be directly related to this afternoon’s lunch and the revelations he’d finally made about his rescue and Soledad’s death.

How he’d lived with that for so long, carried it for all these months…

The longer she’d spent dwelling on his memories, the colder her skin had become. Rather than heading straight to bed, she had ended up soaking in a hot tub of bubbles, seeking warmth and a release of the tension keeping her wound tight. Finally she’d slept, waking hours later to the grinding slide of the elevator grate as he’d opened it.

She’d lain still, her heart in her throat, listening for his movements. A ridiculous endeavor, as he made no sound at all. Obviously she had dozed off again, because when he finally entered the bedroom and slid into bed, she woke suddenly, her breath caught as she settled into the heat of his body.

Telling Chloe that a relationship with Patrick was unhealthy had been the clearest truth Annabel could speak. She could support him, encourage him. What she couldn’t do was fix him. He had to not only admit to his demons but be willing to fix himself. So why did that proven truth now seem murky, when nothing about their situation had changed?

Nothing but Patrick’s willingness to open up in the bright light of day.

In the time they’d been together, he’d grown from a bitterly recalcitrant ass to a man with a depth of character she couldn’t help but admire. A depth that few men ten years older yet knew. A character that showed more promise than that of any man whose path she had crossed.

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