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Rush spat a four-letter word
"My sentiments exactly," Jeff answered
Rush let hi just inside the door The way things orking out he could be here awhile The realization angered hiht about it He moved into the kitchen and set the six-pack of cold beer on the counter He rarely indulged hiood and drunk
Not bothering to turn on any of the lights, Rush took one chilled alu roo in front of the wide picture , he offered a silent toast to the glittering lights of the waterfront several blocks below He took a large swig of beer Tonight so cold and alcoholic suited his te drink, sat on the sofa and propped his feet on the coffee table What he needed was a wo breasts and wide hips to bury hiry frustration Rush frowned The crude thought wasn’t like hie in such pri weeks of planning and o down the drain, Rush wasn’t in the ainst his will, Rush remembered the look in his friend Jeff’s eyes when he’d stepped off the gangplank Jeff had been hurrying to get hoination to knohat Jeff was doing about now – and it wasn’t drinking cold beer in a dark living roorin Jeff and Susan Now that was one ood money on But Susan Dwyer had pleasantly surprised him When Jeff had left Bremerton earlier in the week, there’d been no tears in her eyes, only sood wife to Jeff froer or a complainer; the only bonds she’d wrapped around her husband had been in his heart
Rush had seen subtle changes in his friend since hisfor major ones Over the years Rush had witnessed the power a wonize the symptoms But Susan Dwyer hadn’t been like some of the others, and Rush had silently adotten damn lucky to find a woiven up trying
The sound of so behind him jerked Rush into action and he vaulted off the sofa The bathroo water What the hell! Someone was in the apartment It had to be Steve He moved down the hallway, looked inside his roomate’s bedroom and cocked his eyebrows in astonishment A silk robe was draped across the end of the bed and the room was littered with female paraphernalia
Rush released a slow, exasperated breath He’d been afraid so his way through the pain of his divorce and it had left him vulnerable Rush was all too familiar with the seductive wiles a wo advantage of his friend’s generous nature, planting herself in their apart tricked and used Well, Rush wouldn’t stand for it A surge of anger at the thought of soe of his friend’s kind heart ladly handle this situation, he decided He’d get rid of her, and if Steve asked for an explanation later, Rush had the perfect excuse After all they had an agree wohtened into a narrow line Froht at hoainst the wall, crossed his legs and waited Within a couple of minutes the bathroom door opened and the woman stepped out Her dark eyes rounded before she let out a soft gasp
Obviously startled half out of her wits, the woe of her pajamas "Who are you?"
Dear God, wouldn’t you know it, Rush groaned inwardly This wasn’t just any wo about, with nice, round breasts and long, inviting legs One look and Rush could understand why his friend had set her up in this cozy arrangeh Her sheer baby-doll pajas It took hi like that of the blondes that usually appealed to his friend
She continued to stare at hiainst the wall behind her She opened herhere?"
Other than the sasp, Rush noted, she revealed no real fear "Isn’t that supposed to be my question?" he taunted, and hissmile She didn’t make an effort to cover herself, but perhaps she wasn’t aware of how thehiain, maybe she was
"You must be Rush"
"So Steve mentioned me?" That surprised him
"Yes…of course" The woman worked her way past him and retrieved her robe fro it She uise her uneasiness, but Rush noted that she was tre he could see that her heart was pounding like a jackha to hie brown eyes of hers, but Rush was unht to practice her charain Steve Kyle was his friend and he wasn’t about to let his buddy be used by this woman or anyone else
As nonchalantly as possible Rush followed her into the bedroo have you been here?" Her clothes hung in the closet and her things were lined atop the dresser He lifted the sleeve of a blouse and let the sers Froh she owned the place Perhaps she assuh
The woht away Instead, she moved out of the bedroohts "Only a couple of days"
"You didn’t waste any tih she hadn’t understood his question "No"