Risky Investment by Beth Moore

Author:Beth Moore [Moore, Beth]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781594930195
Amazon: 1594930198
Publisher: Bella Books
Published: 2005-05-02T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Lynn woke to sunlight streaming through the window of the truck. Rubbing her eyes, she looked at her watch. Damn! What had happened to her alarm? Examining the clock, she laughed. The batteries had run out. Her little overnight bag wasn’t infallible after all. She started the truck and raced toward the house.

Chris woke to hear someone rifling through drawers. “Lynn?” she whispered. Rolling over, she looked at the clock. It was five in the morning.

“Hey,” Lynn answered from the darkness of the room. “I’m running really late. Gotta go.”

Chris sank back into bed and thought to herself, I guess satisfying the woman had taken all night. I wonder if she had satisfied Lynn…

Lynn leaned against the railing of the deck, cooling down from the strenuous run she just completed. She realized she had only a few cigarettes left. Either she was going to have to get over her feelings for Chris, or she would have to buy a new pack. She lit the cigarette and drew in her first smoke, wishing that the nicotine didn’t work so well at calming her nerves.

Matt slid the glass door open and stepped out onto the deck. “Oh, real healthy, Lynn. What did you do? Go for a run before you lit one up? Did you really think that one would counteract the other?”

Lynn kept her eyes on the waves crashing against the shore. “Is Chris here?” she asked.

“Not yet. I guess she went to the library today after class. Probably because she felt the tension here,” Matt quipped. Placing his hands on his hips, he continued in a sarcastic manner, “What’s going on between you two, anyway? Are things not going according to your game plan?”

Lynn turned and looked Matt straight in the eye. “It’s not a game, Matt” she said. Solemnly, she turned back to the water.

Matt was taken aback. With Lynn, romance had always been a game. It was always the thrill of the hunt. This was hard for him to comprehend. “You mean… what you mean is…”

“What I mean is that I really care for her.” Lynn flung her arms in the air. “There, I admit it! I’ve fallen for a straight woman!” she blurted out. “Pretty stupid, huh?”

Matt nodded. “Yeah, pretty stupid.”

“Thanks for your support,” Lynn said, saluting him with her bottle.

Matt paused for a moment. Irritated, he asked, “If you care for her so much, why did you go fucking around with that other woman last night?”

Lynn sighed. “I didn’t have sex with her.”

Matt mimicked like he was cleaning out his ears. “Excuse me? I think I heard you wrong,” he said, never knowing Lynn to walk away from a woman primed and ready for a night of passion.

Lynn shook her head. “No, you heard right.” She took a swig from the bottle. “Pretty hard to believe, huh?”

Matt nodded and walked over to join her at the railing. He couldn’t believe that he hadn’t seen this before. All this time he had been irritated at Lynn for lulling Chris into her trap.

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