![]() ![]() “Ready?” Nick asked, tossing down his napkin. Rory heard soft laughter as the band broke into a slow song. Moist air off the Sound had dampened the tile floor, but even so, several couples had drifted outside, waiting to dance. Strains of music filtered inside, and Rory glanced around the restaurant to see a three-piece band tuning up at a small patio to the right. His penetrating way of getting under her skin became a danger to all her carefully laid plans to keep her heart under lock and key. But Nick had his own ideas where Rory was concerned. How could she think about Nick that way.? And letting him know how she felt would only spell disaster. The only confidante she truly trusted was her diary, where over the years she’d put down all her emotions: from joy to despair, from hate to love.īut then Nick re-entered her life with a vengeance and suddenly Rory was faced with the fact that what had once been friendship was fast turning to desire. Rory’s father’s unfaithfulness had haunted her throughout her life, and she’d determined she couldn’t trust any man with her heart, even Nick. In sick horror, she realized she’d refused to tell him how she felt about him, though he’d begged her to, right before he headed onto the water. One fateful afternoon Rory Camden learned that Nick Shard, her best friend for life, was the victim of a terrible boating accident where at least one man was left for dead.
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