Not Without Her Family by Beth Andrews

Author:Beth Andrews [Andrews, Beth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2008-10-15T23:00:00+00:00

KELSEY STILL HADN’T MOVED, and Jack sure as hell wasn’t backing up any farther. Not when her scent filled his head and his body was reacting.

“Are you going to ignore my question all afternoon?”“It doesn’t matter.”

“It might.” It mattered to him. “If you’re embarrassed—”

“I’m not embarrassed,” she replied indignantly.

He’d obviously hit a nerve. “Good. Because I’m not judging you.”

Her disbelief was plain. “Aren’t you?”

He kept quiet. Just looked at her. Which was no hardship. As he’d told her earlier, he liked looking at her. Her sharp features, her slender body. The way her teeth worried her plump lower lip when she was thinking.

“It was stupid,” she finally said. “I was stupid.”

“I’m discovering you are many things. But stupid isn’t one of them.”

She blushed. “Yeah, well, the day I…the reason I…messed up…was because I’d just found out Leigh, my mother, had died. It threw me, and I let my guard down. Eric was there and I…I guess I needed someone.”

“Grief can play havoc on a person.” He knew that better than anyone.

She tipped her head to the side exposing her long, pale neck. He rubbed itching palms down the legs of his jeans.

“Did it you?” she asked.

“Did what me?”

“Did grief mess you up when your wife died?”

“For a while,” he said slowly, his stomach tightening as he remembered those first few months after Nicole’s death. How much he’d hurt, how alone he’d been. “I had a rough period, but I managed to get through it.”

“I can’t imagine you allowing anything, not even grief to control you.”

“I’m not infallible, Kelsey,” he said quietly. God knew that was the truth. But maybe if he opened up to her, she’d respond in kind. He forced himself to meet her eyes, to face the possible derision, the disappointment he’d see there once she knew what he’d done. “Because of my grief, I made a bad decision. I wasn’t thinking straight and went against my supervisor’s orders. I almost lost my badge because I mishandled a case I was working. Worse than that, because of me and those actions, an innocent man died.”

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