Passion and Peril: Scenes of Passion\Scenes of Peril (Hqn) by Suzanne Brockmann

Author:Suzanne Brockmann [Brockmann, Suzanne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780373778201
Amazon: 0373778201
Publisher: Harlequin HQN
Published: 2013-11-26T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

WHEN THE ALARM went off at eight o’clock, Maggie was already awake.

Ever since Matt had left for California two days ago, she’d been unable to eat or sleep. The only thing she could actually do was work, so she’d dug in, working late into the night on the monthly accounts, searching for some legal principle to fall back on if they couldn’t increase profits.

Stevie and Matt had had their heads together for over a week now, working on something that Matt didn’t want to show her until they’d done some more research.

Maggie was still trying to get her hands on that mysterious codicil—tracking it down had been much harder than she’d thought.

She got out of bed, showered quickly and was soon downstairs in the office, wishing for the nine millionth time that she’d been able to talk Matt into letting her go with him.

But he’d been adamant she remain in Connecticut. “I want to keep then and now completely separate,” he’d said to her the evening before his flight. He’d smiled at her lazily as they lay in his bed. “I think of it as something out of science fiction—the time I spent there was kind of an alternate reality. If that and my present reality ever meet—boom. The whole world will explode.”

Maggie had rolled her eyes. “Matt, get serious.”

And he did. “I left behind an awful lot of pain and fear at the cancer center,” he told her. “I know they saved my life—at least they gave me some extra time—but it’s not a nice place. The tests aren’t a lot of fun. And waiting for the results...”

“That’s why I want to go with you,” she said.

“And that’s why I don’t want you to come,” he said. “Please. I don’t want you to see me there like that.”

So here she was, waiting for him.

He’d called when his flight had landed in L.A., and again several times over the past few days. He’d told her he wouldn’t have any test results until Tuesday night.

It was finally Tuesday.

Maggie looked at the clock.

Eight-thirty in the morning.

It was going to be another long day.

* * *

THE TELEPHONE FINALLY rang at nine o’clock that evening.

“Hey, Mags.” Matt sounded exhausted.

Maggie closed her eyes briefly, taking a deep breath. “Matt.” Tell me. Tell me, tell me, tell me.

“Sorry I couldn’t call earlier,” he said. “You wouldn’t believe what I had to go through to get to a phone.”

If he were okay, he would have told her without any delay, wouldn’t he? Maggie tried to still the fear that was rising into her throat. “Tell me,” she said.

“Well, there’s good news and bad news,” he said. “I thought I was going to be able to catch the red-eye home tonight—”

“Oh, God,” she breathed.

“No, that’s the bad news,” he said.

“Then tell me the good news.”

“The good news is that there’s no definite bad news,” he said. “The test results came back...weird. They want to retest before telling me anything.”

“Weird how?” she asked.

“I don’t know,” he said. “I just know we’re back in wait mode.

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