Uncross My Heart by Andrews-Austin

Author:Andrews-Austin [Andrews-Austin]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: ! Yes
ISBN: 9781602820456
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books
Published: 2009-01-13T06:00:00+00:00

Uncross My Heart

cHaPter seventeen

I rang Viv’s home phone early Friday morning after a sleepless night, due in part to my palm and in part to my heart. I wanted to tell her that I needed to talk to her, I didn’t want her leaving angry.

We could still see each other, lunch, be friends. But a strange woman’s voice answered—a sleepy, sexy someone that I had awakened. I realized Vivienne must not be alone.

I quickly hung up. “Well, that’s just damned near perfect,” I shouted to Ketch, mimicking Vivienne’s pronunciation of the word.

Ketch stopped eating his breakfast long enough to assess my mental condition.

I showered and dressed and, just before leaving, turned on a local TV station to check the weather and there she was—Vivienne Wilde—

obviously pretaped and looking absolutely designer perfect, talking about her book and her upcoming signing at a local Borders. I sat down on the couch and stared at her, loving the camera angles that went in close, capturing her intelligence and beauty. Someone else is apparently enjoying that, and not me. And if she can land in bed with someone so quickly, then she’s either betraying an existing lover or has a roster of them waiting in line for the privilege. Either way, I made the right choice in not sleeping with her.

Depressed, I dressed and headed for an early morning meeting with Hightower and the board of directors.

As I charged down the corridor of the McGuire Building, I spotted an invitation-sized envelope stuck to my door with a pushpin.

I approached it slowly, as if it might contain plastic explosives, and Robbie Renthrow, whose academic path seemed to collide with my

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