Six Sentence Sunday - Calling Home Snippet #9

Hey beautiful people!

It's another bright Sunday here in Mauritius. Still hot as the depths of hell, and there's nothing more you wanna do that plop down in front of an open terrace door/window, and with a blowing fan to your side, an ice-cold mocktail in your hand (preference lately = virgin mojito *grin*) and a good read...

...which today means *yippee!* Six Sentence Sunday snippets!

Okay, I am back in the yard of the Camberry Victorian mansion (and before you start to wonder how much stuff can actually happen on an estate's yard, let me just tell you a whole chapter takes place here! There, we have that out of the way *grin*).

So, Jamie is pining for Margo... whom he thinks bats for the other team, thanks to Emma's long-winded explanation. Ice Queen Margo is also feeling something for the hunky Jamie - she who never feels anything but cold professionalism and swift competence.

But is she finally coming undone? And what of the misunderstanding between them? Will it ever be resolved... before it's too late, for both of them?


'...

A hot flush crept up her face and burned her cheeks when she found herself wanting to touch the fabric, eager to know if the flannel was as soft as the lamb's wool shirt of the night before.

Damn hormones - thirty-six was too young for peri-menopause, wasn't it?

"Is something wrong?"

His voice sounded thick, strained - come to think of it, the expression on his face echoed his tone; he didn't look aloof as much as he resembled a man careful to shield his feelings.

He hadn't looked at her that way the day before, as if he was hesitant about her; she read his body language all too well, since he echoed every other witness, and the people in victims' entourages, she encountered on criminal cases. 

"Emma was with you?" she asked, hoping to break the stilted, tension-filled silence between them. ...'

Catch some more awesome SSS snippets from the list - Siobhan Muir, DeAnna Felthauser, Jessica E. Subject, Tory Michaels, Sue K., Sarah Ballance, Angela Quarles, JM Blackman, Sherry Gloag, Rebecca Royce, Cera duBois, Cherie Marks... and the rest of the posse this week :)

Hope you're all having a lovely weekend!

From Mauritius with love,

Zee