Awakened by His Touch by Nikki Logan

Author:Nikki Logan [Logan, Nikki]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780373742837
Amazon: 0373742835
Barnesnoble: 0373742835
Goodreads: 18467954
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2014-03-03T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

‘SERIOUSLY, DUDE. A blind chick?’

Elliott threw Danny his most withering stare. ‘She’s not a “chick”, Dan. She’s a woman.’

Danny flicked his gaze to where Laney sat, firm-knuckled around Misfit’s gunnel, her white shirt blown back tight against her torso. Showcasing every curve. Elliott instantly felt protective of those curves, because she couldn’t see them to know how uncovered they were by either her one-piece swimsuit or the translucent shirt. It felt vaguely wrong to be appreciating them.

‘She sure is.’ Danny grinned. ‘A blind woman.’

‘So?’

‘So that’s not your usual type.’

‘That’s the least of the ways Helena Morgan is not my type, Danny.’ He kept his voice low, just in case the laws of physics suddenly decided to change direction and carry their words to her extra-perceptive ears. ‘What’s your point?’

‘My point is what are you doing? Is this serious? Is it casual? Is it work?’

‘What does it matter?’

‘It matters, mate. If this is work then why is she here, out riding with us? And if this is casual then you might have picked the wrong girl to hit.’

‘She’s blind, Dan, not impaired.’ The vehemence of his own voice surprised him. ‘She’s as capable as any other woman of dealing with something short term.’

‘And that’s what this is? A bit of short-term something?’

No. It wasn’t as seedy as Danny made it sound. He’d thought he knew, but he was starting to doubt his own mind. ‘It’s not anything.’

Yet—and only if you didn’t count two kisses and the impending promise of more.

‘I wanted to get her off the farm. Have a chance to talk with her in a different context.’

Danny glanced back at him from the wheel of Misfit. ‘Why?’

Good question. ‘To see what makes her tick.’

‘Why do you need to know that?’

You didn’t buy a boat with someone if they weren’t a good mate, but that wasn’t something he was prepared to answer honestly to himself, let alone his best friend. ‘Because this job hangs on getting her co-operation.’

Ugh, when had he become such a good liar?

‘Ah, so it is work. Are Ashmore Coolidge cool with you sleeping with your clients?’

‘I’m not sleeping with her. And the firm trusts me to use my best judgement.’

‘In other words they’re cool with you sleeping with a client if it leads to revenue?’

‘I’m not sleeping with her.’

‘Right.’

‘Damn it, Danny—’

‘Hey, I’m just trying to work out if I should bother getting to know her.’

‘She wants to try parasailing. That’s it.’

‘Mmm.’

‘Mmm, what?’

‘Smacks of dirty pool, Elliott. Getting her high on adrenaline and then hitting her up for whatever it is you want.’

Anger bubbled hard and fast just below the place where he usually kept it contained. ‘That’s not what I’m doing. She just wants to experience something new.’

Though wasn’t he? Could he truly say it hadn’t crossed his mind how good a kiss between them would be right after she landed? Or in the air?

Danny eyeballed him. ‘And since when did you become a life coach?’

‘Why are you busting my brass about this?’

‘There’s a blind woman clinging to the front of our boat.

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