"Holly Lisle - Minerva Wakes" - читать интересную книгу автора (Lisle Holly)

as a person and how she wished he would read one damned
self-improvement book or another and change. After all,
she'd changed, hadn't she?

Yes, she has, he thought, and it hasn't been an
improvement.

Or he could stay late at work, slap supper, and tell this
young girl with the bright green eyes what a clever fellow he
was. Hell, with an ice storm coming, maybe he could play
his cards really right and spend the whole night with the girl,
the two of them huddled in his cubicle of an office for
warmth while the weather raged around them. Maybe they
could find some creative ways to keep warm.

He'd never cheated on Minerva. He'd never wanted to
before. But she wasn't really Minerva anymore, he
thoughtтАФnot in the important ways. She wasn't the girl he'd
married. She was a stranger he didn't understand and didn't
like very much.

He gave the gold band on his left hand a momentary
glance, twisted it nervously with his thumb, and took a deep
breath.

14

Holly Lisle
"I have a file in my office on HearthHome," he said. "I
can show you some of our sketches and preliminary work,
and tell you how we turned those into die final Hearth-
Home campaign. Would that help?"

She looked at him, radiating awe and respect. 'Thank
you, Dan-yl. It really would."

"Great then." He glanced at her and frowned just a little.
"By the way, what's your name?"

Barney listened while Mommy finished singing bedtime
songs. She tucked in Jamie first, then headed for his bed-

"Mom!" Jamie yelled. "Don't step on Waterloo!"

She looked at the hundreds of tiny plastic soldiers litter-
ing the floor around Jamie's bed. "Waterloo?"

"I figured out a way for Napoleon to win itтАФI think,"
Jamie said. "But I have to finish trying all the stuff
tomorrow."