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Private Scandals

Private Scandals

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Autoren: Nora Roberts
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Naturally.”
    “Naturally,” Finn said pleasantly.
    He’d hear about the rest anyway, Deanna reminded herself. From Joe, or someone else in the newsroom. That would be worse. “We had a little scuffle.”
    There was a dangerous light in Finn’s eyes. “Did he put his hands on you?”
    Deanna shrugged, hoping to lighten the mood. “In a manner of speaking. It was really just one of those push-shove sort of things. But Tim was there,” she added quickly. “And Joe. So it was nothing. It was really nothing.”
    “He put his hands on you,” Finn repeated. “And he threatened you?”
    “I don’t know that I’d call it a threat. It was just—Finn!” He was already up, removing his coat from the rack. “Finn, damn it, you said you’d be reasonable.”
    He shot her one look, one stunningly frigid look that had her heart stopping. “I lied.”
    Her knees were knocking together, but she was on his heels as he strode out of the house. The cold and the look in Finn’s eye had her teeth chattering as she struggled intoher coat. “Stop this now. Right now! What are you going to do?”
    “I’m going to go explain to Pike why he should keep his hands off my woman.”
    “Your woman?” That tore it. She bounded ahead of him, slapping both hands onto his chest. “Don’t you pull that macho bullshit on me, Finn Riley. I’m not going to . . .”
    Her voice slid back down her throat when he propped his hands under her elbows and lifted her off the ground. His eyes were blazing.
    “You are my woman, Deanna. That’s not an insult, that’s a fact. Anybody who manhandles you, anybody who threatens you has to deal with me. That’s another fact. Got a problem with it?”
    “No. Yes.” Her feet hit the ground with a thump and she ground her teeth. “I don’t know.” How was she supposed to think when all she could see were those furious, deadly eyes boring into her. “Let’s go back inside and talk this through reasonably.”
    “We’ll talk when I get back.”
    She raced to the car after him. “I’m going with you.” There was still a chance, a slim one, that she could talk him down.
    “Go inside, Deanna.”
    “I’m going with you.” She opened the door, climbed in and slammed it shut. He wasn’t the only one who could slice flesh with a look. “If my man’s going to go make a fool of himself, I’m going to be there. Got a problem with that?”
    Finn slammed the door and turned the key. “Hell no.”
     
    The best Deanna could hope for now was that Marshall wouldn’t be home.
    The wind had picked up and held a fresh threat of snow. It raced through Finn’s hair, sent it flying around his face as he stalked up to Marshall’s door. He had only one thing on his mind and, like a skilled reporter, easily blocked out all distractions: Deanna’s mumbled curses, the occasional swish of tires on the street, the numbing chill in the air.
    “He’s not worth it,” Deanna said for the hundredth time. “He’s just not worth your making a scene.”
    “I have no intention of making a scene. I’m going to talk to him, and he’s going to listen. And then, unless I’m very much mistaken, you’ll never see or hear from him again.”
    He had been wanting a confrontation since the day Deanna had rushed out of the CBC Building in tears, and into his arms. Finn could already feel the grim satisfaction of pleasure postponed.
    Deanna saw his eyes slit like a predator’s as the door opened. Her stomach clenched and she had one wild thought: to jump between them.
    But Finn didn’t lunge, as she’d been half terrified he would. He simply strolled across the threshold and into the foyer.
    “I don’t believe I invited you in.” Marshall ran a finger over the black tie of his tuxedo. “And I’m afraid I’m on my way out.”
    “We’ll make this as quick as possible, since I don’t believe Deanna’s comfortable being here.”
    “Deanna’s always welcome in my home,” Marshall said stiffly. “You are not.”
    “What you don’t seem to understand is that we’re a team. When you threaten her, you threaten me. I don’t react well to threats, Dr. Pike.”
    “My conversation with Deanna was personal.”
    “Wrong again.” Finn stepped closer. The feral gleam in his eyes had Marshall stepping back. “If you come near her again, if you ever put your hands on her again, I’ll bury you, in every way you can imagine.”
    “There are laws to protect a man against a physical attack in his own

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