The Wild Side by Isabel Sharpe

Author:Isabel Sharpe
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2001-08-31T04:00:00+00:00

ROSE TURNED OVER for the six thousandth time and buried her face in her pillow. She couldn’t sleep. In Boston she’d been a champion insomniac, but here in Maine she’d slept like a rock. Now the worry machine was going full tilt.

She hadn’t written to her mom this week. Not that her mom would probably notice; she didn’t even recognize her daughter anymore. But the weekly letter made Rose feel she was keeping the link between them alive, in her own mind, anyway. This week she hadn’t written.

Then there was Melissa. Was she okay? Had she and Tom hit it off? Were they still meeting at her apartment or had they moved to Melissa’s place, where they’d be safer?

Was the van still parked in front of her apartment? Was Senator Mason in some kind of trouble? Had whoever hired Gel Man and Broken Nose roughed them up for losing her trail? Had the two thugs given up? Were they still looking? Would they find her?

Rose clenched her fist on the pillow. It was no use. She was worrying as hard as possible about everything she could think of, avoiding the one thing that was really bothering her.

Slate.

He was the most complicated, most confusing man she’d ever met. He didn’t respond to anything the way she expected, the way he was supposed to. The very first day she’d tripped over a log half-buried under leaves and moss, and had looked to him for help, figuring he’d love the chance to rush in for the rescue. Rescue was obviously his thing. Look how he’d opened his house to a stranger, a woman in need. For all he knew, he was risking his life to protect her.

But no. He’d snapped at her to get up, seemed annoyed she’d looked to him in the first place. Okay. Maybe she’d gotten him wrong. So she’d tried another tack, asserted herself, suggested they fix up the dreary house. He’d looked around in shock, as if her boldness appalled him, as if she’d better keep her mouth shut in the future. Then he’d taken charge of the renovation work, barking commands, criticizing her work….

Sometimes it felt as if he was goading her, deliberately trying to make her lose her temper. Some men were into power issues, trying to make themselves appear more in control by making those around them lose theirs. But Slate didn’t quite fit that mold, either; she didn’t sense he was enjoying trying to make her crazy.

So what was with this man? He had her completely off balance from the moment she got up in the morning until she fell into bed at night, confused and exhausted. Rose wasn’t used to being off balance. Not around men. Men were her specialty, her area of expertise. She’d never met one she couldn’t get along with, one who didn’t, at the very least, respond to overtures of friendship.

Rose couldn’t figure out Slate at all. And in the midst of this bewildering, draining attempt to make their stay together pleasant, she had begun to crack, show temper, show strain.

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