Cade's Dare (Crime Tells) by Strong Jory

Author:Strong, Jory [Strong, Jory]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Jory Strong
Published: 2014-06-07T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

Cade was leaning against the Beetle.

Emotion gripped her. Love. Longing. Lust. Fear of loss. All of them intensifying the closer she got to him.

He pushed away from the car, ditched his shades so she could read his eyes—and she did.

He liked seeing her walking hand-in-hand with his brother.

He wanted her.

He wanted to take her with Mace.

Steps from the Beetle Mace stopped her, kissed her then released her hand, surrendering her to Cade.

“I missed you,” he said, an arm going around her waist, a warning that if she continued to be with them both, there’d be no keeping it a secret.

Instinctively she tried to pull away.

Cade’s arm tightened, preventing it. His mouth covered hers. Hot. Possessive. Demanding. Finding that chord inside her that just wanted to submit, at least when it came to this—and she did.

She softened against him. Wanted to tell herself it was just the newness of being with him, that the heat, the thrill, the craving would fade over time.

But that would be a lie. She’d been hopelessly in love with him for years, and now there was hope, that this could be something more, and that was far more dangerous.

He released her and she felt breathless, shaky enough to slide onto the Beetle’s hood and put her feet on the bumper. What was she going to do about this? About them?

Her heart could hold more than one man in it, even craved it now that she’d been with Mace and Cade. But that didn’t mean she’d lost all reason, didn’t understand the importance of reputations.

She wasn’t worried about some passer-by seeing her kissing Cade. Or even someone having glimpsed Mace’s hand-off, but going forward, especially around friends, family, the people who frequented their bars…

She wasn’t cut out for casual. She wasn’t willing to expose her private life, not for a fleeting fantasy.

Deal with it later. Deal with the case now.

“What’d you find out about the guy we saw Avery with on campus?” she asked.

Cade put his foot on the bumper next to hers. Mace tucked his thumbs into the back pockets of his jeans. No one would suspect the three of them were doing surveillance—not that surveillance was all that necessary given the tracker and a month-plus of reports on Avery’s movements and visitors. But it felt right to put some time into this.

“The guy’s name is Raymond Lennox,” Cade said. “He’s a law student. First-year. I dug around in his social media accounts. There were a few mentions of Avery, a few exchanges with Avery. Nothing special. Nothing suspicious.”

“So she could have just been passing off something related to a class. It might not have anything to do with prostitution or drugs.”

Cade rocked forward, pushed back using the foot on the bumper, flexing the muscles in his thigh and drawing her eyes to the bulge at the front of his jeans.

His laugh was enticingly masculine. “You’re making me forget what we’re talking about, sweetheart.”

Heat flared in her cheeks at being distracted from the case. She lifted her gaze to his face.

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