out of the shadows by kay hooper

Author:kay hooper
Language: eng
Format: azw
ISBN: 9780553576955
Publisher: Bantam
Published: 2000-10-31T05:00:00+00:00

“That,” Tony said indignantly, “is really cruel.”

“Life is unfair,” she agreed. “Are you planning to be here awhile?”

He sighed. “Yeah, at least until the snow gets good and started. Nothing to do at the Lodge but watch TV, so I’d just as soon work while I might be able to get something done. Both our rentals are SUVs and we know how to drive in bad weather, so we should be able to get around okay unless it turns into a real blizzard.”

“Then I’ll probably see you later.”

She went to her office, absently leaving her door open, and sat down behind the big desk.

What on earth had possessed her? To talk about it at all, even to think about it, wasn’t something she had allowed herself for so long. It was stupid, just plain stupid, to let herself get dragged back into the past.

Miranda sat there staring at the coffee cup on the center of her blotter, remembering so much more than she wanted to. She remembered his face transformed, hunger and tenderness naked in his eyes, in the bittersweet curve of his lips. She remembered how he had touched her hair, how he had held her against him all night, even in sleep.

Most of all, she remembered the unexpected force of his passion, the intense need that had half-frightened her. It had never been casual for him, not even in the beginning.

She hadn’t even imagined what would happen. Half-consciously pressing her cool palms to her burning cheeks, Miranda closed her eyes. Even Bishop, she thought, hadn’t realized what passion would ignite between them.

Please, God, he hadn’t known or even suspected, hadn’t been that cold-blooded… .

“Randy?”

She jerked in surprise, hands falling, eyes opening to see Alex standing in the doorway.

“Sorry,” he said. “But the door was open. I can come back later.”

Miranda got hold of herself. Or tried to. The hand she used to pick up her cup was, she saw, shaking.

“No, now is fine,” she said, lying grimly. “What’s up?”

Alex came in, closed the door, and sat in a visitor’s chair. “Couple of things. The snow still hasn’t started, but we’re ready for it. The off-duty deputies went home to get a few hours’ sleep in case they’re needed later, but all are on call from here on out. We’ve set up a few cots in that empty office, and we have supplies enough to get us through a couple of days, just in case.”

“Good.”

“Tomorrow being Sunday, there won’t be the usual traffic to worry about, especially since the churches will all cancel services if the weather’s bad. We’ve raised the age for curfew to twenty-one, and asked that none of the kids go anywhere alone even before dusk. Safety in numbers, or at least we can hope there is.”

Miranda nodded. “Then we’ve done all we can for the time being.”

“Yeah.”

She waited.

“I don’t quite know how to put this, Randy, so I’ll just say it straight out. The rumors are getting pretty wild, but I saw your face when I told you what Amy Fowler was claiming.

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