Bear Claw Conspiracy by Jessica Andersen

Author:Jessica Andersen [Andersen, Jessica]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Contemporary, Fiction, Romance, General, Man-Woman Relationships, Colorado, Suspense, Park Rangers, Law Enforcement - Colorado, Law Enforcement
ISBN: 9780373695478
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2010-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

MATT MADE IT HALFWAY down the hall before he spun and slammed his shoulder into the wall. Pain flared at the point of impact and lower down in his gut, but he deserved all of it and more.

Sagging, he leaned back against the wall, which felt far steadier than he did just now.

One second he and Ian had been doing okay, and then the next…damn it. They’d been back at it like they’d seen each other four days ago, not four years.

And Gigi had been right in the line of fire.

He had caught a glimpse of her face as he stormed out, and the dark-eyed mixture of sharp hurt and dull resignation was singed into his brain. He deserved that, too, because he had insisted that he was the best one to watch her back when really he was about the worst possible choice to protect her.

Which he had just proven in spades.

His emotional control was gone, incinerated the moment their lips touched. Or maybe it had happened before then, somewhere between the first sizzle of seeing her in the hallway outside Tucker’s office and the second his brain had kicked back into gear and warned him that she was trouble. That she was the first person he’d met in a very long time who had the potential to mess with his head.

Only she wasn’t trying to mess with anything—she was just trying to do her job. He was the mess—what had just happened back there had nothing to do with her and everything to do with old scars, even older dreams, and a friend who knew how to push his buttons.

Damn Ian for going there. Damn Proudfoot for whoring out part of Bear Claw Canyon because he couldn’t handle his finances.

And damn him for not being the man he should have been.

Behind him, a door opened and Ian’s voice became audible, saying, “…any time, day or night, seriously.”

“I may just take you up on that.” She sounded as if she really meant it, too, which put a nasty twist in Matt’s gut, even though he knew he didn’t have the right to feel anything even remotely approaching jealousy right now.

In college, Matt had been the charming jock, Ian the poet, and they’d both had their share of conquests. Later, though, their lives had diverged. Ian had gone to grad school, flourished, and emerged both poet and charmer, while Matt had worked long hours in uniform, trying to make everything okay when it couldn’t possibly be. And now Ian was still charming, while Matt was…hell, he didn’t know what he was, but it wasn’t good.

Ian and Gigi exchanged a few more pleasantries that had him grinding his teeth, then she headed in his direction, her silver-toed boots clicking like a ticked-off metronome.

She wore a studded black blazer, beige pants that clung to every dip and curve, and a purple shirt that did more than hint at her cleavage. But where yesterday he would have looked at her and seen a city slicker, now he just saw her.

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