Midnight Fire (27 page)
Authors: Lisa Marie Rice
Something told her he’d be able to do that for days and maybe even weeks, not just hours.
And, truth be told, the fact that he was there, watching over her, allowed her to lose her sense of time and do it right. Without him, there was a bit of her that would have remained tense and alert.
“You were very kind and very patient with me. I appreciate it.” She looked up and met his eyes and again smiled sunnily at him. He blinked and his face became even more wooden.
“My pleasure, ma’am.”
She rolled her eyes at him. “Lauren.”
“Lauren,” he repeated dutifully.
God it was fun teasing him. She tugged at the massive arm under her hand. “So come on, let’s go over to the blue wall.” They turned. “From what I can see of the frames, she did a magnificent—”
And then it happened.
And it cut her life in two.
Copyright © 2014 by Lisa Marie Rice
Acknowledgments
I’d like to thank Adam Firestone for demolishing my original plot, though he replaced it with a better one. All the cool stuff is his, all the mistakes are mine.
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About the Author
Lisa Marie Rice is eternally thirty years old and will never age. She is tall and willowy and beautiful. Men drop at her feet like ripe pears. She has won every major book prize in the world. She is a black belt with advanced degrees in archaeology, nuclear physics and Tibetan literature. She is a concert pianist. Did I mention her Nobel Prize? Of course Lisa Marie Rice is a virtual woman and exists only at the keyboard. She disappears when the monitor winks off.
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