The Desperate Game: (InterMix) by Castle Jayne

Author:Castle, Jayne [Castle, Jayne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: PENGUIN group
Published: 2012-07-10T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

Zac remained immersed in his thoughts through the conclusion of dinner. He surfaced briefly when Guinevere waved the check under his nose, but after paying it with only minimal protest, he lapsed back into an austere silence.

That silence was beginning to bother Guinevere. She had never seen anyone withdraw so intently into his own thoughts except one of the programmers on occasion. Perhaps Zac was running a program in his mind, she decided with fleeting humor as she climbed into the Buick. Whatever he was thinking didn’t seem to affect his driving. He guided the car back toward her apartment with an accuracy that was obviously second nature by now.

She wasn’t certain what he was going to do when he parked the car, but it soon became clear he intended to follow her inside. Without a word he trailed upstairs behind her.

“Zac?” She fumbled with her key.

“Hmm?”

“Did you want a brandy or something?” She glanced at him uncertainly. “It’s getting late. Maybe you should just head on home.” It occurred to her that as many times as he had been to her apartment, she had never seen his. Brief curiosity flared in her for an instant. Someday she would like to see just what kind of lily pad the Frog inhabited.

“That sounds good.” He stalked through the door and went over to the couch.

“What sounds good? The brandy? Going home? Zac, are you with me? Testing: one, two, three.”

He turned his head to look at her as he sprawled back into a corner of the couch. For the first time Guinevere realized that the gray of his eyes reminded her of the color of a ghost. The thought made her strangely uneasy. There was a great deal she did not know about this man. Perhaps too much.

“I just want to think for a while, Gwen. Is that all right?”

“Well, yes, of course, but—”

“I seem to do it better when you’re around than when I’m alone back at the office or my apartment.”

“I had no idea I was such an inspiration.” Guinevere tossed her oversize shoulder bag down on the nearest table and went into the kitchen. The brandy was becoming something of a ritual. She wasn’t sure if that was such a good idea. Tonight she wasn’t sure of a lot of things, including her own ambivalent feelings toward Zachariah Justis.

When she emerged a few moments later with the two brandies, he still hadn’t moved. He had his feet up on the low table in front of the couch, and his eyes were half closed in deep contemplation. She wanted to say something flippant but changed her mind at the last second. Quietly Guinevere set his brandy in front of him, and then she took a chair. After a long pause, in which it became clear that Zac was not going to involve her in his internal dialogue, she picked up a best-seller she had been trying to finish for two weeks.

Time ticked past in the quiet apartment. Guinevere

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