Safari Moon

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Book: Safari Moon Read Free
Author: Rogue Phoenix Press
Tags: Romance, Contemporary
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Thelma, don’t call anyone. There
has got to be a better way. I’ll figure something out. Maybe
they’ll just wear out and leave.”
     
    “Don’t bet on it. But I’ll keep
thinking.”
     
    He heard the click as the door closed then a
long silence. He drummed his fingers on the little white phone that
sat on top of his desk and once again contemplated the fire escape.
The window ledge looked better and better.
     
    “Grandfather, your timing couldn’t have been
worse.”
     
    You never listened to me.
     
    The slight Irish lilt to her voice was
crystal clear. No, she wasn’t in the room with him, but he could
hear her, see her. His best buddy, Nyssa Harrington, could have
been sitting right here in his office telling him that he should
heed her words--that he should listen to her.
     
    She’d always had advice for him and true
enough he’d always shrugged the suggestions off, assuming nothing
bad would ever happen to him. Not that she was a doomsayer, but she
did have an uncanny habit of noticing the women he surrounded
himself with and informing him that one day he’d regret his
nonchalant attitude. Someday he might want someone who had a few
more brains, character beneath the surface of the great body Nyssa
had thought he'd always been more interested in. He'd always
surrounded himself with air-heads because he couldn't have Nyssa.
Well, her words haunted him now.
     
    He could see her clearly, her perfect oval
face framed by long strawberry blond hair swirling around her
shoulders. She had a tiny waist but he always liked the picture he
mentally kept of her, the one where she wore shorts, her slim legs
accented by a pair of hiking boots and thick wool socks.
     
    Even now with all the commotion outside his
office, the thought of Nyssa--ethereal, strong, an IQ much, much
higher than his own--was daunting. He’d never taken her
intelligence and her common sense for granted. Until a year ago
she’d always been driven, a workaholic like himself. She’d been
friends with a lawyer in New York City. Nyssa was an up-and-coming
Wall Street wheeler dealer. Then out of the blue she threw her job
away. A job that at one time had been more important to her than
anything or anyone else.
     
    He’d talked to her over the phone, and she’d
told him the days were too intense. Life wasn’t fun. The two women
closed up shop, Nyssa turned in her blue chips, Candace her legal
briefs and they both flew home to Oregon. But he always knew she
hid her real reasons for leaving.
     
    With the help of another cycling business,
they began an off roads bike touring company. Last time he’d talked
to her she’d been on her way to New Zealand with a group of
twelve.
     
    He’d never seen a woman in as good physical
shape as Nyssa. And, as usual, he didn’t know how to argue with her
when she informed him she had to ride more often so she’d be ready
for the next trip. He couldn’t understand what motivated her
anymore.
     
    Now as he thought of the mess he was in, he
recalled some of her lectures to him.
     
    “Someday, Solo St. John, you’re going to
wish you weren’t so single minded. You’ll wish you’d looked past
the surface looks of a woman to see what’s underneath. You'll be
sorry you don’t have a clue as to how a woman thinks and
feels.”
     
    Trust Nyssa to foresee the future.
     
    When they were in college, when he was as
driven as she was, he had faith in her. She was able to pick out
the serious coeds, the ones who wanted to tie the knot from the
ones who were out for a good time. She was shy and studious. If
there was one thing about Nyssa Harrington he knew, it was that
she’d never been able to let loose and have a good time.
     
    So, of course, he didn’t understand the
drastic change in lifestyle she’d made a year ago.
     
    Always dependable Nyssa. The one person he
could count on had become unpredictable.
     
    “Nyssa...” He left the window and the view
he’d contemplated for the last hour.

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