Witchcraft by Jayne Ann Krentz

Author:Jayne Ann Krentz
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Contemporary Romance
ISBN: 9780727869029
Publisher: Severn House
Published: 2010-07-01T21:30:45.265000+00:00

“She’s doing all right,” Starke observed, his gaze on Kimberly. “Especially for someone who’s accustomed to being a loner.’ Cavenaugh agreed. Starke shrugged. “Everyone’s alone in some ways.”

“Why is it you always get philosophical after a couple of whiskies, Starke?”

“Brings out the intellectual side of my nature.”

“She’s good for you, Dare. I like her.” Cavenaugh’s mouth twisted faintly.

“Knowing how selective you are about people, that’s saying something. As it happens, I agree with you.” Starke’s eyes were on Kimberly. “So when are you going to get this other thing out of the way so you’ll be free to stop playing games?”

“I’ve arranged the meeting for the day after tomorrow. “On neutral grounds?”

Cavenaugh nodded. “The lobby of a San Francisco hotel.”

“You’re sure this is the right way to go about it?”

“You got a better idea?” Cavenaugh challenged grimly.

Starke sighed. “No.”

“I want her free of the past, Starke. The only way to do that is to confront it. Besides, they’ll hound her until they get to her. They’re desperate.

Better to arrange the meeting on our terms rather than theirs.”

“You’re just going to spring the whole thing on Kim?”

“She’ll never agree to a meeting with her grandparents.”

“I don’t know, Dare. Women don’t like surprises.”

“Kim will understand why I did it. When it’s all over she’ll see it was the only way.” Across the room Kim managed to excuse herself from the cluster of people around her and drifted out onto the patio. It was nippy out there, but after the crowded, overheated environment of the party it was a relief to her.

She was experiencing that trapped sensation again. There was no doubt about what people were thinking when they looked at her. They were seeing her as the new Cavenaugh bride, and none of the Cavenaughs was doing anything to discourage the assumption. Not even Darius Cavenaugh.

What was going on in his head tonight, Kimberly wondered as she walked to the edge of the patio. There were times when she thought she could tell exactly what he was thinking. But there were other occasions when he remained unfathomable. He hadn’t been back to her room since that one night they had spent together. For the hundredth time Kimberly considered that fact. Was he truly playing the gentleman or was there more to it? Perhaps he hadn’t found her as physically satisfying as she had found him. Kimberly’s fingers closed tightly around an awning pole and she stood looking out in the darkness.

Before her was a section of shadowy garden, and beyond that the rock wall she had been forbidden to pass. In the distance the building that held the fermentation tanks loomed in the darkness. The acres of grapes stretched out on all sides, gliding over gentle hills beneath a pale moon. It was a lovely, prosperous, peaceful setting. Kimberly wondered how it differed from the kind of lifestyle Cavenaugh had lived before he had returned home.

“Isn’t it a little cold out here, Kim?” She whirled at the sound of Starke’s familiar, gravelly voice and smiled at him.

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