Saving the Best for Last by Jayne Kingston

Author:Jayne Kingston [Kingston, Jayne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Contemporary, Fiction
ISBN: 9781419939662
Publisher: Ellora's Cave
Published: 2012-03-22T20:00:00+00:00

Chapter Four

She was gone when he woke up late the next morning.

George wasn’t entirely surprised when she didn’t come back to the bar the next week. The second week didn’t faze him much either—as long as he didn’t count the bruise forming on his ego—but when she didn’t show up for a third, something that felt a whole lot like worry began to tickle its cold fingers inside his head.

He tried to tell himself it was nothing, but he kept going back to the look on Red’s face when she thought she’d seen someone through the window right after they’d fucked on the beer cooler. In the bitter cold of winter, it was unlikely one of the residents from the neighborhood behind his bar had randomly been out walking at almost three in the morning. If she’d seen someone, that someone had more than likely been there for a reason. And while it didn’t necessarily mean anything, the broken glass he’d found on the street the next morning had made the hair on the back of his neck rise.

Both things happening in the same night kept eating at him, until he was sure something bad had happened while he’d been sleeping. She’d been playing a dangerous game. Although it was unlikely anyone had seen her going into the bar after closing, the odds that she’d pissed off someone she shouldn’t have—someone whose anger over being rejected for that second romp had been festering into something dangerous, to the point they just might have been waiting around to catch her alone on the street—were not in her favor.

He wanted more than anything to know that she was all right. But without knowing anything more than her first name, he had little idea how to go about looking for her.

“What’s going on with you?” Melissa asked, pulling him out of his thoughts.

It was girls’ night again. Someone had slipped him Andrea’s phone number the first night Melissa brought her in to meet him, but he hadn’t used it. She didn’t seem especially put out, so maybe she hadn’t been any more enthusiastic about it than he had.

“Listen, I know I said I’d call her,” he said with a glance in the direction of her table.

“Don’t worry about it.” Melissa rolled her eyes and waved her hand. “I think she’s seeing the troll again. What’s with the storm cloud hanging over your head?”

He shook his head. “I don’t want to talk about it.”

“I can come back later, take you to breakfast?” she offered.

“You’re a peach for asking.” He took her hand and kissed it. “But I’m good.”

She shrugged. “Let me know if you change your mind.”

He gave her an indifferent nod and turned his attention to Terry when he motioned him down the end of the bar where he was sitting.

“Another round?” George asked.

“One more.” Terry winked at him. “And then I think she’ll be warmed up enough to take back to her hotel,” he said, meaning the knockout in the suit he was drinking with.

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