Two Sisters by Kay David

Author:Kay David
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2013-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

JOHN PICKED UP the phone on the first ring. He was standing by the window and had seen Elizabeth’s lights come on. “Hello?”

“It’s me. I’m home.” Elizabeth sounded weary, but behind the exhaustion, John heard something else. The wary guardedness she’d put between them the first few times they’d spoken had returned and he understood exactly why.

He now knew one of her secrets.

“How’d it go?” he asked, keeping his voice casual. “Hear anything interesting from anyone?”

She hesitated just a second, then spoke. “Tracy did say something I found intriguing.”

John didn’t wait for her to say more or to give him permission. “I’m coming over. Put on a pot of coffee.”

Two minutes later he was standing on the small porch outside Elizabeth’s front door. She opened it before he could knock, then stepped aside for him to enter. He brushed past her, reminding himself of the moment in the hallway when he’d seen her earlier this evening. He’d felt something jump between them and so had she. He knew it. Now, looking down into that same dark gaze, John felt it again. A velvet rope winding around them both and pulling them closer and closer, whether they liked it or not.

“You didn’t need to come over.” She closed the door behind him. “I could have told you everything on the phone.”

She wore a robe, and not the thick terry-cloth thing she’d put on the night after she’d been at April’s. No, this was white silk and thin with a delicate tracery of flowers stretching across one shoulder and arcing down the back. It covered her much more completely than the outfit she’d danced in, but now he knew a lot more about the body beneath the garment. John felt the heat of his response before he could curb it.

“I wanted to see you,” he said. “I wanted to make sure you were all right.”

Reluctantly, it seemed, she tilted her head toward her living room. “Come inside and sit down, then. The coffee’s almost ready—I had a pot already started. I’ll go get it.”

John walked into her living room and found himself staring at the photograph on the mantel, the one he’d looked at before. This time he studied it more closely, but he really didn’t have to. He had his answer. The other photo, the one locked in his desk that April Benoit had had hidden in her apartment was of April and Elizabeth. He knew that now.

The two girls here, dressed in their ballet finery, stared back at the camera. April confronted the lens, but Elizabeth had a…dreamy look in her eyes. He guessed that mentally she was nowhere near the stage or the ballet. She’d worn the same expression this evening.

She came up behind him and handed him a mug, sending a glance of her own toward the photograph. “I suppose you’re wondering how we went from Swan Lake to the Esquire Club.”

He took the coffee mug and nodded. “It does seem to be a jump, but I assume there’s a good reason.

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