Black Tie by LYNN RAYE HARRIS

Author:LYNN RAYE HARRIS [Harris, Lynn Raye]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781941002476
Publisher: H.O.T. Publishing, LLC

Brett was on his guard as they walked through the village, but nothing out of the ordinary happened. It was a small village, picturesque—which meant tourists. Brett studied the people they passed. No one stood out. He looked especially hard at the women, in case Natasha Orlova was masquerading as one of them, but she didn’t seem to be there.

Tallie happily browsed in shops, stomping snow from her boots before they went inside, then looking at everything until she was ready to move on to the next. They popped into a restaurant on one corner of the square that served hearty German fare and ate lunch, with wine for Tallie and a beer for him.

Brett was careful how much he consumed, just in case, but Tallie didn’t seem to notice. She finished her wine and ordered a second glass. Her cheeks were flushed and she talked animatedly about the things they’d seen in the shops.

“Oh, I could really see a use for that cabinet in one of my interiors. And that fabric. Gosh it’s pretty…”

She went on like that for a while. Brett nodded and made appropriate remarks, but he felt somewhat like he was in two places at once.

Part of him was playing the part of doting new husband and part was watching their surroundings for any danger. But the part of him watching for danger was also thinking about what he’d said to her earlier. That his idea of a fun day was spending it with her. He still didn’t know why he’d said it, but right now it was as true as anything.

He wanted to kiss her. And then he wanted to peel those clothes from her body and kiss the rest of her. He was starting to tell himself it wasn’t that bad of an idea, that it was a great way to pass the time. That they were both adults and they wanted each other. What was wrong with that?

“Earth to Brad,” Tallie said, snapping her fingers, and Brett’s attention bounced back to her. She watched him with an arched eyebrow, her pretty mouth twisted in a smirk. “Daydreaming, pookiebear?”

Pookiebear?

“A little bit,” he admitted, glancing at a nearby table. The people sitting there weren’t looking at them at all. They were laughing and chatting in German. He’d have known they were European even without the language cue. They ate with their forks in their left hands, pushing food onto them with knives in their right.

Whenever he was pretending to be European, he did the same thing. It was a subtle difference from how Americans ate with forks in the right hand, but it’s also what made them stand out in a European crowd if you were looking for them. It was the little things when you were undercover that made all the difference.

“Okay, so what about?” Tallie asked, eyebrow still arched.

He could have said anything. Could have made up any reason he wanted to. But he told her the truth. Or part of it anyway.

“You, baby.

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