Harlequin Special Edition December 2014 - Box Set 2 of 2: A Bravo Christmas Wedding\A Very Maverick Christmas\A Texas Rescue Christmas by Christine Rimmer

Author:Christine Rimmer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2014-10-14T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

Braden didn’t know how to react. He wanted to slide down beside her and hold her, but he feared that something important was happening inside her, something that shouldn’t be interrupted. Her emotional earthquake was almost palpable to him, as dramatic as the storm that battered Rust Creek Falls.

He was in over his head; he knew that before she even began speaking. But he bit back any sound, any gesture, that might interrupt her. Whatever this was, she desperately needed it to happen.

“I haven’t told my girlfriends,” she said, her voice thin. “I haven’t told anyone. I’m so ashamed.”

“Of what?” he dared to ask quietly. Never would he tell her all the imaginings that popped into his head at that confession. The matters that might shame her created a long list, but certainly not what came out of her next.

“I have amnesia,” she said, her voice breaking. “I don’t know who I am. I don’t remember a single thing before I woke up from a coma in the hospital four years ago. I don’t even know what happened to me.”

He saw her hand reach up to touch the back of her head, stroking something he couldn’t see.

“I was found wandering without any identification. All I had were the clothes on my back and this necklace. God, Braden, even the doctors didn’t really believe at first that I couldn’t remember anything of my past at all. Do you know how rare that is?”

“No,” he admitted. Inside he felt rocked to the core by what she was telling him. It was as if everything he had felt and noticed about her imploded until one great big monolith in his mind covered it all. Her skittishness, her lack of conversation, her occasional evasions... It was enough to leave him stunned.

“I’m someone, obviously, but I don’t know who. I’ve been searching, and my search brought me here, but I still don’t know anything about who I was, what kind of person I was. Or, like I said, whether I’m married. Although I’m probably not because the cops hunted the missing persons reports and I never came up. Whoever I was apparently didn’t make friends or have family.”

He hesitated, sorrow replacing shock. “You can’t be sure.”

“Of course I can’t be sure. All I can be sure of is that nobody gave enough of a damn to report me missing.”

“Maybe you’d moved on for some reason, and they didn’t expect you to come back.”

She swiveled her head, looking at him from the corner of her eye. “That’s a kind explanation. The truth is probably not as pretty. Part of me is desperate to recover my past, and part of me is terrified of it. What if I don’t like the woman I used to be?”

“But you’re the woman you are now,” he argued quietly.

“Who is she? I don’t know!”

“She’s Jenn or Jennifer. You got that much, right?”

“Maybe.” She pulled up her knees, resting her chin on them, wrapping her arms around her legs. “How can I be sure?”

“I don’t know,” he admitted.

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