Burned by Anne Melody

Author:Anne, Melody [Anne, Melody]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Book Four, Forbidden
Publisher: Gossamer
Published: 2015-06-15T07:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE

BY MONDAY MORNING, Elena was feeling grouchy, to say the least, from lack of sleep. She hadn’t heard another word from Tyler, but that didn’t mean the man hadn’t been on her mind constantly from the time he’d walked out of her bedroom a day and a half earlier.

She’d even gone running on Sunday, jogging through a nearby park until her legs were weak and she barely had the energy to step into the shower and wash the sweat off. And she still hadn’t managed to nod off for very long.

Yes, she wanted him, and she was sure that much was obvious. But a long line of women had to be lusting after Tyler Knight. Or at least interested enough in his money to try to lure him into the sack. Why couldn’t he just run off and play with one of those little bimbos?

That thought sent a pang right through her, though she fought to convince herself that she really did want that easy way out of this mess. She just didn’t want to hear about it or see it.

Amid all her work on legal briefs and on contracts — she was going at it all double-time — she wondered what they were meeting about tonight. If he planned to monopolize all her evenings through the course of this project, she was going to be very, very cranky by the time it ended. She had to struggle through a boatload of paperwork during the day, and everyone deserved private time. Yes, her company got to bill him for every hour he was with her, but that didn’t change how much she actually made, and it wasn’t much, not when she was paying off her student loans.

When Elena dashed home, she changed into something a little more comfortable — this time it was slacks, because there was no way she’d wear another skirt around that guy, and she put on a thick sweater, which was making her too warm already. By the time she did that her doorbell was already ringing. Would the pressure never let up?

She answered it reluctantly, expecting to find Tyler standing there. She was faced instead with a stranger wearing a suit.

“May I help you?”

“I’m here to give you a ride, Ms. Truman,” the man answered.

“I’m not sure I need a ride,” she said slowly.

“Mr. Knight sent me.”

The guy didn’t look like a serial killer, but how was she to know what a serial killer actually looked like? Even people with law degrees weren’t always that clued in. And she rarely touched criminal law.

“Can you wait out there for a moment?” she asked. He nodded and she shut her door before moving over to her cell phone and sending out a quick text.

Tyler immediately responded that, yes, it was his driver, and that he, Tyler, looked forward to seeing her. Well, she wasn’t looking forward to seeing him.

Gritting her teeth, Elena grabbed her purse, went back to her front door, and followed the driver to the black SUV waiting at the curb.

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