Fearless. Diana Palmer
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Название: Fearless
Автор: Diana Palmer
Издательство: HarperCollins
Жанр: Зарубежные любовные романы
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“Is this what you planned to do with your life?” she asked suddenly. “Managing a truck farm, I mean?”
He laughed softly. “At one time, I wanted very much to be a commercial airline pilot. I have a pilot’s license, although I rarely make use of it. Flying is expensive,” he added quickly, in case she had some idea of how much private planes cost.
She hesitated about probing further. He was a very private person, and she sensed some irritation in his tone that she’d asked about his goals.
She stared off into the distance. “I wanted to be a ballerina when I was young,” she said quietly. “I took lessons and everything.”
He winced. “That must have been a painful loss.”
“Yes. I’ll never get rid of the limp unless they can find a way to remake muscle and bone.” She laughed shortly. “I enjoy watching ballet productions on educational television,” she added. “And I’d probably have embarrassed myself with any serious dancing. I’m just clumsy. The first recital I was in called for us to hold hands and dance past the orchestra pit. I fell in, right onto a very big fellow playing a big tuba. The audience thought it was all part of the routine.” She grimaced. “My mother got up and walked out of the auditorium,” she recalled. “She never went to another recital. She thought I did it deliberately to embarrass her.”
“A truly paranoid personality,” he commented.
“Yes, she was,” she said quickly. “How did you know?”
“I knew a man who was the same. He thought people were following him all the time. He was certain the CIA had bugged his telephone. He wore a second set of clothing under his suits, so that he could duck into a rest room and change to throw his pursuers off the track.”
“My goodness!” she exclaimed. “Did they lock him up?”
“They couldn’t.” He chuckled. “He headed a very dangerous federal agency at the time.”
She was really curious now. “How did you find out about it?”
He hesitated, playing for time. He was getting careless. He was supposed to be an uneducated farm laborer. “A cousin of mine played semipro soccer with a cousin of his,” he replied finally.
“Nice to have a pipeline like that,” she said. She laughed. “You could have made a fortune if you’d tipped off the tabloids.”
And gotten himself put on a hit list, he thought silently. The man had been a very dangerous enemy. Rodrigo had taken work in Mexico to avoid being around him until he finally retired. Having dual citizenship with the U. S. and Mexico had come in handy. It was really handy now, since there was a price on his head in almost every other country on earth. He glanced at Glory and wondered what she’d think of him if she knew the truth about his anguished past.
“Did you have pets when you were little?” she asked after a minute, just for something to say.
“Yes,” he replied. “I had a parrot who spoke Danish.”
“How odd,” she replied.
Not really, because his father had been Danish. He didn’t explain. “How about you? Did you have other pets besides the ill-fated cat?”
“Not really. I always wanted a dog, but that never happened.”
“You could have one now, couldn’t you?”
She could, but her work called her out at all hours. She didn’t think it was fair to a dog to have to share her hectic life. Compared to what she normally did, working on this truck farm was a real vacation. She’d gone to deserted parking lots to meet informers, with the police along for protection. She’d ridden in limousines with gang bosses. She’d done a lot of dangerous things in the course of her job, and she’d made enemies. Enemies like Fuentes. If she had a pet, it would become a target, just as a boyfriend or close friend would. The people she prosecuted held life cheap compared to profit. They wouldn’t hesitate to do anything in their power to harm her, including doing damage to a pet.
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