“Torment, mistrust and, strangely enough, something like hope were at war with one another in the depths of her eyes. She stood stiffly, unyielding, and yet… "You know," she said, "my friends are beginning to think I'm crazy." "That happens," he told her. "Great. So they'll wind up having me locked up. And you're not helping me at all, though I'm sure that's what you think you're doing." "I can help you," he assured her. "If you'll let me." She smiled then, ruefully. "Julian will never let me go... off with you alone." Brent studied the man who had been her defender in the fracas in the street and who had accompanied her to the police station. Was the man her lover? The thought disturbed him. Admittedly, he had felt an attraction to Nikki DuMonde, the sort of attraction he hadn't known in years. It was one thing to look on a woman and judge her as stunning. Youth itself was often beautiful, and Nikki was right at that age, in her mid to upper twenties somewhere, when the sophistication of maturity had combined with all the elements of face and form to give her an added elegance.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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