Only Forever by Linda Lael Miller

Author:Linda Lael Miller [Miller, Linda Lael]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, Romance, Contemporary, C429, Kat, Extratorrents
ISBN: 9781460309278
Google: 4MELtMs7_gcC
Amazon: B009NEIT9I
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2012-11-15T07:00:00+00:00

7

“It’s Friday night,” Nick said stubbornly, standing in Vanessa’s kitchen with his arms folded. “We had a date, remember?”

Vanessa sighed. It was dark outside, even though it was still early, and there was a wintry chill in the air. She took her old sweater from the peg inside the pantry door and put it on. “We can’t just go on as though nothing happened, Nick,” she reasoned, wishing they could do exactly that.

“Because you still don’t trust me,” he ventured to guess.

She gently bit her lower lip for a moment. “I want to, but you’re so much like Parker….”

His eyes darkened. “I didn’t come over here to be insulted,” he informed her. “Furthermore, damn it, I’m nothing like that bastard!”

Vanessa took a can of vegetable-beef soup from the cupboard. Since the argument with Nick, she’d been virtually living on the stuff. “You are,” she insisted. When he started to speak, she held up a hand, palm outward, to silence him. “Besides the pro-athletics aspect, there’s your reputation. Do you deny that you’re known far and wide as a rounder and a ladies’ man?”

Nick jerked the soup can out of her hand, stuck it up against the can opener and pushed down on the handle so that an angry whir filled the kitchen. “Who the hell told you that?” he demanded. “Parker?”

Vanessa shook her head, reclaiming the soup, dumping it into a saucepan and adding water. “I’m not sure where I heard it. I just know, that’s all.” She studied him pensively as she put the mixture on the stove to heat. “You know, I think it’s very interesting that Jenna didn’t trust you when she was the one who was fooling around. Was yours an open marriage, Nick?”

He rolled his eyes, looking more annoyed by the moment. “Not on my end, it wasn’t. As for Jenna, her own guilty conscience made her suspect me.”

“Want some soup?” Vanessa asked, getting two bowls down from the shelf even as she spoke because she knew he wasn’t about to leave.

Nick sighed. “No, but I’ll eat it,” he answered. While Vanessa was stirring the broth, he called DeAngelo’s and instructed someone to send over two orders of clam linguine and a bottle of white wine.

She was grinning when she brought the steaming bowls of soup to the table. “A man of sweeping power and influence,” she commented, as much to keep the conversation moving as anything.

Nick was frowning as he sat down. “How did your job interview go?” he asked.

“They’re going to hire me, I think,” she answered, reaching for a basket of saltine crackers she’d set out earlier and squashing a handful into her soup. “Of course, if they see me on national television with Parker, they may change their minds.”

For a few moments, Nick said nothing. He was busy adding crackers to his soup. When he finally spoke, his tone was serious. “You’re really going to do that? I thought you were just stringing Parker along to get rid of him.”

Vanessa swallowed. “Yes, I’m really going to do that,” she confirmed.

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