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Three Fates

Three Fates

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Autoren: Nora Roberts
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won’t you? I’ll ring you back in thirty minutes. You should be conscious again by then.”
    When the phone clicked in her ear, she slammed the receiver down. He wasn’t going to shake her. So, he had two to her one, but that was all right. All he’d done was save her the trouble of getting them through customs and smuggling them back to New York herself.
    She glanced toward the closet and, unable to resist, walked over and inside. Her fingers trembled with fury as she opened the panel, opened the safe.
    Cleo was right. At that distance and that angle, they could just hear the scream.

Twenty-nine
     
     
     
     
    OW that she was naked, facedown on the floor and trying to get her breath back, Cleo figured letting Gideon have at her had been worth the rug burn. In spades.
    And since she’d had at him right back, she didn’t think she’d hear any complaints from him either.
    They had, she thought, a really fine rhythm going between them. The kind she could dance to endlessly.
    “Doing okay there?” he asked her.
    “I think some of my brains might have leaked out my ears, but I’ve got more. How about you?”
    “Well, I can’t see yet, but I’m hopeful the blindness is temporary. Still, ending up blind and brain-damaged doesn’t seem like such a high price to pay.”
    “You sure are a cutie, Slick.”
    “At such a time, a man prefers being called a tiger or some other sort of wild beast rather than a cutie.”
    “Okay. You’re a regular mastodon.”
    “That’ll have to do. We should get up, put ourselves back together.”
    “Yeah. We should.”
    And they lay as they were, a tangled and sweaty heap with clothes scattered around them.
    “I heard, through the grapevine, that you’re thinking of opening a club or a school or some such.”
    She managed to move one shoulder in what passed for a shrug. “I’m thinking about it.”
    “So, you’re not set on going back to dancing, spinning around on Broadway and that sort of thing.”
    “I never did a hell of a lot of spinning on Broadway anyway.”
    “I think you’re a wonderful dancer.”
    “I’m not bad.” She turned her head, rested her cheek on the rug. “But you’ve got to know when to move on or you end up a blown-out gypsy being bounced from audition to audition.”
    “So, you’re more in mind to stay put.”
    “You could say.”
    He trailed his finger up her spine, down again. She had such a lovely, long back. “You know, they have clubs and dance schools in Ireland.”
    “No kidding? And here I thought all they had were shamrocks and little green fairies.”
    “You forgot the beer.”
    She ran her tongue around her teeth. “Could use one right now.”
    “I’ll get us both one, when I can feel my legs again. Cobh’s not so big and crowded as New York . . .” Thank the lord. “But it’s a good-sized village, and we get lots of tourists. It’s not such a ways from Cork City, if there’s a need for the urban sort of crowds and traffic. We’re very big on dancing in Ireland, whether it’s the doing it or the learning it. You know, a dancer’s a kind of artist, and we hold our artists as national treasures.”
    “Is that so?” She could feel her heart begin to thud, but stayed very still. “Maybe I should check it out.”
    “I think you should.” His hand began to rub light, lazy circles on her butt. “So, do you want to get married?”
    She closed her eyes a moment, let the honey of it—warm and sweet—slide through her. Then she turned her head, looked him in the eye. “Sure.”
    Their grins spread, and, laughing, they reached for each other just as the front door opened.
    “Oh, Mother of God! My eyes.” Malachi slammed his shut, covered Tia’s with his hand. “Is it so hard to find the bed in this place?”
    “We were in a hurry.” Gideon grabbed for jeans and had them nearly to his knees before he realized they were Cleo’s. “Just hold on.”
    Cackling with laughter now, Cleo tossed Gideon his pants, then snagged his shirt for herself. “It’s okay. We’re getting married.”
    “Married?” Tia shoved Malachi’s hand aside and, caught up in the thrill, rushed over to hug Cleo. “This is wonderful. It’s just wonderful. Oh, oh, you can have a double wedding! You and Gideon and Rebecca and Jack. A double wedding. Wouldn’t that be fabulous?”
    “It’s a thought.” Cleo peeked around Tia at Malachi, who was staring hard at the ceiling. “Aren’t you going to congratulate me, welcome me to

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