(2004) Bait by Karen Robards

Author:Karen Robards [Robards, Karen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Mystery, Suspense
ISBN: 9780340895733
Publisher: Hodder Paperback
Published: 2004-07-01T00:00:00+00:00

SIXTEEN

Monday, August 18

When Sam opened the door to Gardner at shortly before eight the next morning, he was not in the best of moods. After Maddie had finally fallen asleep on the couch, he had let her be for a while, trying to concentrate on the TV and his own thoughts instead of noticing the picture she made lying there or her occasional restless movements or the soft sound of her breathing. But ignoring her had proved impossible. Curled on her side with one hand tucked beneath her cheek, she had looked sweet and sexy and vulnerable. Her lashes formed dark crescents on her cheeks; her lips were just barely parted. Her body—no, he wasn’t going there; he wasn’t even going to think about her body. But even when he’d kept his eyes resolutely glued to the screen, he had been unable to push from his mind the knowledge that she was curled up little more than an arm’s length away. When he caught himself glancing her way when he should have been watching Shaq mow down Yao Ming, he knew he had to do something. Out of sight, out of mind, he’d thought—too optimistically, as it had turned out—and had scooped her up in his arms and carried her to her bed. She hadn’t so much as flickered an eyelid, and, deadweight, she’d been a substantial armful, but as he’d lugged her into the bedroom and deposited her, still wrapped in her robe, in the middle of her big bed, he’d made a grim discovery.

His deep, atavistic response to their kiss had not been an aberration. Holding the soft, curvy warmth of her in his arms, inhaling the sweet, light scent of her, feeling the satiny smoothness of her skin, he’d gotten hot all over again. So hot, in fact, that it had taken a large effort of will to stop himself from dropping down beside her and awakening her with a kiss and taking up where they’d left off. She would have welcomed him, he knew. He wasn’t a kid; he’d had his share of women. The look in her eyes as she had followed him around after Gomez and Hendricks left was unmistakable. She might as well have been wearing a sign reading Do me now. What had stopped him was the knowledge that he was on the job, dammit, and her last line of defense besides.

And the little voice inside his head warning that with her, he just might be heading for trouble.

It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that zing. Damn Grandma anyway for putting the phrase in his head.

Because with Maddie, he’d recognized it: zing. Zing in spades.

In the very last place he ever would have wanted to find it. His job was to keep her alive, not get her into bed. Although he seemed to be having a problem keeping that firmly fixed in the forefront of his mind.

“Hard night?” Gardner looked at him keenly as she walked past him into the apartment.

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