ice man by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Format: mobi
Published: 2010-07-03T17:53:48.429000+00:00

Seven

They let Dawson go home three days after he was admitted. The doctor insisted that he be cautious about returning to work, and that if he had any recurring symptoms from the head injury, he was to get in touch. Barrie wasn't happy about them discharging him, but she did have every sympathy with the nursing staff. Dawson in a recovered state was better off without time on his hands. He made everyone uncomfortable.

He'd progressed from the bed to the desk in his study and he'd taken Barrie in there with him to discuss the tract of land Leslie Holton had agreed to sell him.

She stared at the contract on the desk, which had arrived by special courier that morning. "She wasn't that eager to sell at first. How did you change her mind?" she asked with barely contained irritation.

He leaned back in his chair, his forehead still purplish from its impact with the steering wheel, marred by the thin line of stitches that puckered the tanned flesh. "How do you think I convinced her?" he taunted. She didn't say a word. But her face spoke silently. He smiled cynically. "And that's a false conclusion if I

ever saw one," he mused. "I can't do that with anyone except you, Barrie."

She flushed a little. "You don't know that."

"Don't I? " His pale eyes slid down her body which was in a loose knit shirt and jeans, and lingered on the thrust of her high breasts. "Then let's say that I'm not interested in finding out if I can want anyone else."

"You'd been drinking," she reminded him.

"So I had." He stood up. "And you think it was the whiskey?"

She shrugged. "It might have been."

He moved away from the desk, glanced at her thoughtfully for a moment, and then on an impulse, went to close and lock the office door. "Let's see," he murmured deeply, and moved toward her.

She jumped behind a wing chair and gripped it for dear life. Her eyes were wide, wild. "No!"

He paused, searching her white face. "Calm down. I'm not going to force you."

She didn't let go of the chair. Her eyes were steady on him, like a hunted animal's.

He put his hands into his pockets and watched her quietly. "This isn't going to get us anywhere," he remarked.

She cleared her throat. "Good."

"Barrie, it's been five years," he said irritably. After the closeness they'd shared while he was in the hospital, now they seemed to be back on the old footing again. "I've been half a man for so long that it's a revelation to have discovered that I'm still capable of functioning with a woman. I only want to know that it wasn't a fluke, a minute out of time. I want to... make sure."

Her big eyes searched his.' 'I'm afraid of you like that." "You weren't just after you had the nightmare," he reminded her. "You weren't the next morning. In fact, you weren't in the hospital when I let you bathe me."

Her hands released the back of the chair.

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