Men of Courage by Lori Foster & Donna Kauffman & Jill Shalvis

Author:Lori Foster & Donna Kauffman & Jill Shalvis [Foster, Lori & Kauffman, Donna & Shalvis, Jill]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Anthology
ISBN: 9780373835768
Google: DTjzWPf1BM4C
Amazon: 0373835760
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2003-05-01T00:00:00+00:00

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Brett sighed. He hated to say anything, but he refused to lie to her. “Things got shaken up a bit. Some of your dishes are broken, your furniture got jumbled up pretty good. I’m not sure how serious the damage is. I’m sure a lot of it just needs to be put to rights. But they’ll have to send inspectors up here, engineers and whatnot, to check everything out before they’ll give you the okay to go back in.” If they do at all , he added silently, but saw she understood that anyway.

She opened her mouth, then looked at her house and closed it, sighing. “I’m just happy you’re okay,” she murmured, pressing her face once again into Digger’s now more settled body. “That’s all that matters.”

There had been fear on her face, worry, maybe a moment of yearning, before resignation had taken over. Brett thought of the books he’d seen on her bookcase. “You said something down at base, when we first hooked up, about your livelihood.”

She nodded. “I make jewelry. I—I was just coming back from a business trip, setting up some new accounts in other cities.”

“So most of your stock is already in stores?” He felt a little better then. She’d have insurance. Surely they’d replace her supplies, tools.

Then she shook her head. “No. Several boutiques around the Bay Area handle a few pieces, but I’d been stocking up, preparing for this trip. I have one case of some of my best pieces, packed with my luggage.” Her mouth dropped open. “Oh, my God, I never got my luggage! I was so worried, I—”

“It will be there,” he told her. “We can get it later.”

“We?” She shook her head. “You’ve already gone way above and beyond—”

“Do you have someplace to stay? Where you can take Digger?” She simply stared at him, then down at Digger, nonplussed for a moment, before finally marshaling her control once again. “We’ll get a room. I’m sure they’ll make exceptions, all things considered.”

“I’ve got tons of room.” He raised his hand. “My family would never forgive me if I didn’t help out.” A small smile tugged at the corners of her mouth, but she only said, “How are they? Everyone still in Baton Rouge?”

“All but me and Sean.” He dug his hands into his pockets. Mostly to keep from reaching for her again. It was the damnedest thing, but he had this feeling that all this had happened for a reason. Maybe not the quake, he didn’t need anything so literally earthshaking as a sign. But… he couldn’t ignore the feeling that this—meeting her again— was somehow, some way, meant to be. “Your work. It’s in there?” He nodded to the house.

Surprisingly, she shook her head and motioned instead to the small, detached garage. “I turned that into a workspace. I have a small safe in there to keep finished work I haven’t sent on consignment. Four contracts’ worth of work is in there.” She said the latter more to herself than to him.

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