He lifted her chin with his finger, his eyes smoldering.And the passion was back, her blood heating within seconds.When he scooped her up as if he was Rhett Butler, she laughed helplessly and folded her arms around his neck.
Chapter Seventeen
Dana and Caitlinhad been giggling and whispering in the kitchen for the past half an hour.Caitlin had phoned around lunchtime, asking when Dana was coming back.Of course, then he had to tell her that Dana would be staying with him, and then she had to talk to Dana, and here they were, having a glass of champagne in the middle of the afternoon.
Don lifted his glass.“So, it turns out you do have a thing for our Dana.”
“Yeah,” David grinned unabashedly.“I do.It’s taken me all this time to figure it out, though.”
“Well, make sure you talk to Dale.There is one more thing you need to discover, but I’ll leave it to him to tell you,” Don said.
In the background, Dana’s phone rang.“What thing?I don’t need to discover anything else.I love Dana.For me, she’s the one.I don’t need to know anything else.”
“Talk to Dale, he—” But Don interrupted himself and stood up quickly, glancing over David’s shoulder.
David turned around.Dana and Caitlin were approaching but something was obviously wrong.
Caitlin had her arm around Dana, and Dana…
“What the hell…” David jumped up and rushed over to them.
Dana was pale and near tears.
Alarmed, he pulled her into his arms and looked at Caitlin.“What happened?”
“She got a phone call from the police in Hermanus…” Caitlin began, and a shudder went through Dana’s body.
He pulled her even closer.
“They’ve broken into my house, David,” Dana cried brokenly.“The police said—” she began, but she choked and buried her face against him.
Caitlin moved closer to them.“Her house has been…” She swallowed and placed her hand against Dana’s back.“It’s been trashed.”A tear rolled down her cheek.
Don joined them and pulled Caitlin into his arms.
“Who?Why?”David barked out.
Dana lifted her head and wiped her face.“They don’t know whether anything has been stolen.I… have to go back to see if anything is missing.”
“I’ll go…” David began fiercely, anger making him shake.
But Don shook his head.“Dana is the only one who will be able to tell what, if anything, has been stolen,” Don said.
David nodded, his brain working overtime.Was this linked to Dana’s dad?If so, who would do something like this?Could it be Sam Jordan?Too blatant, he thought, for someone like the smooth Jordan.But who the hell else?
*
They were nearingHermanus when Dana remembered what had been bothering her for the past day.
“That’s what I remembered,” she murmured.
David was slowing down, because they’d entered the outskirts of the town.“What did you remember?When?”he asked.
“Last night.Something was bothering me, and I nearly remembered but then you…”
Grinning, he looked at her.“What?Had my way with you again?”he said and wiggled his eyebrows.
She giggled and touched his arm.It was still so wonderful to be able to do that, to see how he loved her touching him, how his eyes darkened in immediate response.
