The Others 06 - One Bite with a Stranger

Author:Christine Warren
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: St,. Martin's Paperbacks
Published: 2012-05-06T01:49:22+00:00

REGGIE WOKE SLOWLY FROM A DREAM IN which her former fiancé had reproposed to her, turned into a Welsh corgi, and explained to her that instead of rings, they would be exchanging flea collars during their wedding ceremony.

Talk about Freudian symbolism.

Eyes still closed, Reggie yawned and stretched, the movement aborted when she felt her clothes tighten around her.

Why on earth was she still dressed if she'd gone to bed?

"I had begun to wonder how long you would sleep."

The deep familiar voice finished Reggie's waking-up process in a hurry. Forcing her eyes open, she bolted upright to find Dmitri perched on the side of her bed, watching her with those fathomless black eyes.

"What are you doing here?" she demanded. A thought occurred to her, and she frowned. "What am I doing here? I thought we were supposed to meet at Captain Jack's."

Dmitri didn't answer, but within the space of a few seconds, he no longer had to. Memory came flooding back to her, jumbled and confused but just barely recognizable. She recalled dressing up, leaving early to meet with Greg, talking in the bar… then things started to get a little hazy.

She thought there had been noise—a lot of noise. A band. People talking and laughing. Someone screaming. She remembered fear, low and tight in her belly, and a smell, like rotted meat and wet pavement. None of it made any sense.

"What happened?" she asked, pushing her tumbled hair back and frowning at Dmitri. "I remember going to the bar. I went early, even, but I don't remember when you arrived, and I don't remember how I got home. Did you bring me?"

"I did," Dmitri acknowledged. "Would you like me to remind you? Or would you prefer to hear the story about what I found when I arrived at the place where we had arranged our meeting? How I found my date in the arms of another man? A man who used to be her lover."

His black eyes watched her intently, and Reggie had to work hard not to squirm under his gaze. Honestly, when she'd agreed to meet with Greg before her scheduled date with Misha, she hadn't expected her ex to try so hard to win her back. Sure, she'd been looking forward to his apologies, maybe even a little groveling on his part, but she'd fully intended to shoot him down, so she didn't see what right Misha had to get upset with her.

At least, that's the reasoning she tried to hang on to. Beneath it, though, a secret part of her acknowledged that she'd known how he would react to the idea. In fact, that part of her had pushed her into the meeting for precisely that reason. It had wanted to test him, to see how seriously he viewed the chemistry between them. Had it been a one-night-stand that he wanted to turn into a twofer? Or had it meant something to him? Something like the beginning of a relationship?

It looked like she'd definitely sparked a reaction.

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