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Since she had little choice in the matter, she’d listen to what he had to say, cut her losses and pray to the highest heavenly authority that she’d never see the man again.
The tension in the silence that followed was palpable.
“How are you?” Carl asked gently. Carl Saks was a lot of things, but gentle wasn’t one of them. To the best of her knowledge, it was the first time he’d ever treated anyone with tenderness.
“I stopped off at the store and they said you’d phoned in sick,” he elaborated.
“I’m hunky-dory. What do you think?” she returned flippantly, not willing to be taken in by this gentle side of him.
“I was pretty rough with you. I never intended—”
“Please,” she cried and covered her face with both hands. “Don’t talk aboutit.”
“That’s exactly why I’m here….”
“Don’t you understand?” she shouted, glaring at him. “It should never have happened…I don’t know why it did. I’ve never…I’m not like that…I’m not on the Pill.” She stopped because her throat became thick with tears and it was impossible for her to speak coherently.
The silence was punctuated with her efforts to breath normally and hide her distress.
Candy whipped the hair out of her face. “I don’t want to see you again. We’re not good for each other…we seem to bring out the worst in one another.”
“I disagree.”
“Please, Carl.” The desperation was back in spades. “I won’t ever ask anything more of you.”
“Why don’t you want to see me again?”
It actually sounded as though she’d hurt his feelings.
“We’re bad for each other. We have this love-hate relationship.” She counted off the reasons on her finger. “Tell me, exactly where will our relationship go from here?” Tears marked tracks down the side of her face and she swiped them away with the back of her hand.
“It seems to me we’ve got the perfect relationship.”
“Perfect?” She couldn’t believe her ears.
“Sure. We already know we’re compatible physically.”
“What you’re saying is that we can just cut to the chase and do away with everything else.”
“Yes.” He sounded jubilant, excited and happy all in one.
Candy reached for the decorator pillow at the end of the sofa and hurled it at him. He caught it easily between his hands and seemed at a complete loss when she dissolved into sobs.
Her anger revived her enough to leap to her feet and point the way to the door. “Get out of my house.”
“Why?” He seemed sincerely shocked by her response.
“I don’t wantsexwith you.”
The edge of his mouth lifted upward in a slow, easy smile. “I bet I can prove otherwise.”
If she’d had something convenient, she would have thrown that at him, too, but she was running out of pillows and patience. “Didn’t you hear anything I just said? What kind of woman do you think I am? Please, Carl…just go.” She buried her face in her hands and refused to look at him.
“You’re overreacting.”
“Please,” she pleaded, willing him to leave.
“We can sort this out.”
