Bear Claw Bodyguard by Andersen Jessica

Author:Andersen, Jessica [Andersen, Jessica]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Suspense
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2011-12-05T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

An hour later, as Jack hauled himself up another rocky ridge, cursing when his boots slipped in the loose shale and a couple of pulled muscles ached in protest, he still couldn’t believe he’d let Tori talk him into hiking after the eagles.

They should have had their camp set up, with their exit routes scouted and their secure perimeter set up, leaving them to hunker down together and wait for rescue. Instead, they had recovered the survival gear—which, fortunately, had been banged up but salvageable, though the SUV was a write-off—stashed the bulk of the supplies in a deep, rocky niche near the crash site, and set off hiking roughly east-northeast along the beeline the birds seemed to be making.

She had put up a good argument, though, and when it came down to it, there was something to be said for their staying on the move rather than right near the SUV when there was a chance that their enemies would go looking for the wreck. Granted, they were headed into the hot zone rather than out of it, but she had promised this was just recon. No matter what they found, she would leave it to the pros to make a plan.

And, yeah, as they started down the ridge and the white-hung trees closed around them once more, darkening the day and tainting the air with what he now recognized as the bloodlike tang of copper, he was willing to admit that maybe part of why he’d agreed without too much of a fight was because he hadn’t been too keen on the alternative. It wasn’t going to be easy to hide with her alone in the wilderness, because while they might have talked things through last night, all the logic and self-preservation in the world didn’t change the fact that he still flat-out wanted her.

It was more than physical desire, too—he could have coped with that, he thought, though admittedly he’d never before dealt with this kind of a gut-deep and immediate chemistry. No, there was another level of connection between them, a growing respect and friendship, a camaraderie that tempted him equally, if not more. He wanted to be around her. It was as simple as that, yet not simple at all because they didn’t share the same values, didn’t want or need the same things.

Their decision the night before had been the right one. But that didn’t stop him from being acutely aware of her following close behind him, her movements almost hunter-silent, save for an occasional catch of breath or roll of a pebble or two. And it didn’t stop him from remembering the taste of her kiss, the feeling of having her skin against his, and the way her sexy moans had made his blood burn. Which left him more than halfway aroused with his pulse thudding in his ears, low and insistent, and seeming to come from the air around them, as if—

He froze suddenly, lifting a hand to bring her to a stop behind him as he realized that the low churning noise wasn’t coming from inside him at all.

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