Tempting Adam by Dorie Graham

Author:Dorie Graham [Graham, Dorie]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2002-11-01T04:00:00+00:00

THE STOCK FIGURES blurred before Lauren’s eyes. She blinked. Normally, she had no trouble concentrating on the numbers that often reflected whether or not their campaigns had impacted a client’s business. Tonight, however, she couldn’t keep her mind from wandering.

Rusty’s return, then dinner with her mother had Lauren obsessing over events she’d thought she’d long put to rest. Her father’s illness had been a frightening time. They’d all been distressed to learn her father had known of his cancer for a while but had chosen to keep it from them until he could no longer hide his condition. The shock of it, combined with his imminent death, had sent them all reeling.

After his death, she’d come close to losing her mother, too. The memories of those dark times rolled over her—trying in vain to wake her mother, scavenging for food for Rusty and holding creditors at bay with the promise of payments she knew they couldn’t make.

Though Adam had been there for her, she’d kept the extent of her mother’s despondency from him.

Responsibility had dropped on Lauren’s shoulder like a lead cloak. Through necessity, she’d taken matters into her own hands. She’d called a friend of the family who owned a small sporting-goods store, then roused her mother, dressed her and driven her to the store for the interview.

Like a lost child, Delores had followed Lauren’s instructions. She’d taken the job and Lauren found part-time work after school, waitressing at a family-run diner. Somehow they’d struggled through the following years.

All the while, Lauren was the one to patch Rusty up when he got into fights—and there were plenty of those—to wait up all night worrying about him when he missed coming home by curfew, then to drive across the state to pick him up when he’d been stranded after a night of partying with the wrong crowd.

She shook her head. She’d had a year of peace while he’d been gone, but now he was back, and if the knot in her stomach was any indication, trouble wasn’t far away.

If she worried like this about her brother, how could she possibly take on the responsibility of a child?

She glanced at the clock. It was late, but not too late to see Adam. She just had to talk to him. She had to make him understand that she didn’t want children—that she might never want them.

And if that meant she had to let him go in order for him to pursue the life he wanted, then so be it. Her throat tightened as she headed out her door. The sooner she got it over with, the better.

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