Unexpected Marriage by Anna Adams

Author:Anna Adams
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2001-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

THE NEXT EVENING, after Matt returned from a meeting with Captain Townsend, he peeled a small green square of paper off his locker. Caroline had left him a message. She’d asked the yeoman to leave her number and requested that Commander Kearan return her call.

At least she hadn’t retired to her cottage and boarded up the windows. He crumpled the note. She knew he’d memorized her phone number weeks ago. She’d long since stopped leaving it when she’d needed to talk to him. Today’s message must signal her return to being the woman she claimed she was—the one with the plan he’d blown to bits.

What had come over him? The purple dress that had seemed to serve her body on a silk platter? Their shared sense of loss? What would Jake have said if he’d walked in on them?

He had to make sure Jake never discovered he’d slobbered over Shelly’s mother like a teenager with a terminal case of heartsickness. And to think, for the past two months he’d tried not to rage at Jake for behaving irresponsibly.

Matt checked his watch. It was after five. Tomorrow morning he had to fly to Maryland for his first meeting with Icarus Aeronautical, and he’d promised Ned he’d turn in his reports before he left.

Since the hangar was almost empty, Matt changed into civvies and put off calling Caroline. The woman with a plan had probably decided how to deal with what they’d almost done last night, and he expected her strategy to annoy him.

He filled out his reports and then carried them down to Ned’s office. The door was already closed. The hangar echoed, pipes clanking as the building settled. Only sailors on watch were hanging around. Matt dropped the file in Ned’s mail slot.

Going back to his own office, he tried to plan his conversation with Caroline. He’d been curious about her, attracted and concerned for her, but he hadn’t planned to make love to her against the wall in her kitchen. And he would have if she hadn’t stopped him.

He dropped into his chair and spun to face his desk. He didn’t know what to say. He dialed her number and then ignored the way his pulse quickened as he waited for her to pick up the phone. She answered on the fourth ring, her tone absent, as if he’d interrupted her at something important.

“It’s Matt,” he said.

“Oh.” Metal clattered at her end of the phone. She’d dropped something. “I’m glad you called,” she said.

“I’m sorry about last night.” He wasn’t. He kept thinking about what they hadn’t done, how much of her he hadn’t touched.

“No, you were right. It’s no big deal.” Determination infused her voice. “We need to make sure we can talk to each other without a kiss making us uncomfortable.”

A kiss. She’d either gone without real passion or her latest plan involved lying to herself big time.

“I’m fine,” he lied, as annoyed as he’d expected to be. “How about you?”

“Couldn’t be better. I’m considering turning Shelly’s room into a sewing room.

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