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Rush’s hand reached out and gripped her shoulder, stopping her "Family? What exactly do you mean by that?"
"Steve Kyle, my brother You know, the man who pays half the rent for this place? The one rote and claimed I elcoers closed painfully over her shoulder and his eyes sier "Why the hell didn’t you say you were Steve’s sister?" He reached for her suitcase, stripped it from her hands and jerked her back inside the apartment Rush sla her for the first time
"Don’t tell me you didn’t know!" she shouted back "Just who the hell did you think I was?" The answer to that was all too obvious and a heated flash of bright color invaded her neck and cheeks "Oh, honestly, that’s… disgusting"
Rush raked his fingers through his hair in an agitatedaround to confront her once more "Listen, I didn’t know Honest"
"Does this ht in my own brother’s apartment?"
He let that taunt pass "Yes, of course"
"How generous of you"
Rush picked up the suitcase and carried it back into Steve’s bedrooer Lindy followed hier sure what to make of this man She knew Steve’s invitation had been a spur of the otten their wires crossed Froet held up in the military, and it was likely that Rush hadn’t known she was planning on ant attitude toward her
Lindy o steps behind the man who Steve claimed was his best friend Rush set the suitcase back on top of thearound to face her once ize Okay?"
She answered hiy was followed by a short, uneasy silence Lindy didn’t knohat to say After a tense mootten"
"Good" Rush buried his hands in his pockets, looking as uncomfortable as Lindy felt "Of course you’re welco to be out of here by the end of the week"
"I thought you’d already left I mean…"
Apparently he knehat she meant "I had, but there were some mechanical difficulties and the Mitchell is back in the shipyard for repairs"
"For a week?" After nearly drowning in love and concern fro alone Well, so much for that – at least for now
"Possibly longer, but don’t worry about it You’re welco uncouessed that he didn’t oftenyou any longer than necessary As soon as I’ve found a job, I’ll be ona step in retreat
"Good night," Lindy returned with a weak, dispirited smile
Rush walked out of the rooainst the fra She knew even before she climbed between the sheets that she wasn’t likely to sleep any ti commodity these past feeeks
Rush s With some reluctance, he climbed out of bed and dressed He’d er to face Steve’s sister with his head throbbing and his utter After he’d left Lindy the night before, he’d tried to sleep, given up an hour later and gone back to drink the rest of the six-pack of beer and watch television Noas suffering the consequences of his folly
He sat for a e of his bed, his head in his hands For years he’d heard stories about his friend’s younger sister How intelligent she was, how clever, how pretty Steve was one and insulted her, and in the process ned his best friend He should have realized that Steve wasn’t fool enough to set a woman up in their apartment Hell, Steve was still so ht
Damn it all, Rush mused, irritated with himself He shouldn’t have downed those first two beers If his head had been clearer, he nized her nauely recalled Steve telling hie insurance coraduated froht Steve had said she was engaged to bein Seattle, but after their poor beginning he wasn’t about to drill her about her job or problems with her fiancé
Lindy sat at the kitchen table with the nore Rush As far as she was concerned theNeanderthal Okay, so they were going to be sharing the apart if he could
Rush walked over to the coffeepot, poured hi that sounded faintly like a growl Lindy supposed that was his own prehistoric version of "good " She responded in kind
"What was that?" he de little noise you just "