Midnight Promises (45 page)
Authors: Sherryl Woods
Trace stiffened. “You really don’t want to go there,” he warned. “Abby has nothing to do with this.”
“Doesn’t she? For all I know, you’re absolutely thrilled by the prospect of payback for whatever she did to you. She was the one who broke it off, wasn’t she?”
The comment was not only intrusive, it was insulting. “Dammit, Jess, you don’t know a thing about what happened back then and you sure as hell don’t know anything about me if you think I’d use you to get even with your sister.”
“Really?” she said, her expression innocent. “She’s coming back, you know. She’ll be here tomorrow.”
Trace tried not to let his immediate and unsteady reaction to the news show. “Tell her I said hey,” he said mildly. He started his bike. “See you around, Jess.”
Her show of defiance faltered. “What are you going to tell your father, Trace?”
“I have no idea,” he said candidly. He looked into her eyes. “But I will promise you this, it won’t have anything at all to do with Abby.”
She nodded slowly. “I’ll take you at your word about that.”
As he rode off toward town, though, he couldn’t help wondering if she should. When it came to his conflicted feelings for Abby O’Brien, his word might not be entirely trustworthy.
ISBN: 9781459233102
Copyright © 2012 by Sherryl Woods
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