Caught in the Act by Lori Foster

Author:Lori Foster [Foster, Lori]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Anthologies, Erotic, Adult
ISBN: 9781426887345
Google: Ymbl53HFGFMC
Amazon: 0373834691
Barnesnoble: 0373834691
Goodreads: 763227
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2001-08-31T12:00:00+00:00

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CHAPTER EIGHT

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Mick awoke to an empty bed. Again.

This time, in light of everything he now knew, fear hit him before anything else. He glanced at the bedside clock. Three-thirty. They’d finished their talk almost four hours ago. Where the hell was she in the middle of the night?

He was out of the bed and heading for the door on silent feet before he’d even given himself time to think about it. The reality of her association with known criminals had his skin prickling with unease, his every sense on alert.

She saw no connection between Neddie’s recent death and her own very near escape from death.

Mick, however, was positive that the two events were in some way related. She’d associated with Moran, formed a strange friendship even, and now the man was dead. It had been tricky, telling her what he knew of Moran’s death without telling her how he knew, or giving away confidential information. The death was still under investigation, but thanks to reporters, it was public knowledge that Neddie had been drowned in the river, so Mick had no problem sharing those details.

Not that they’d swayed her. The most he’d been able to get out of her was a promise that she’d let him escort her to the funeral. Mick planned to avoid even that, using a deception to keep her away, while he had men checking into any possible associations between Neddie and the robbers at the jewelry store. He didn’t like himself for it, but he felt it necessary to protect her.

Hours of talking to her had proved that reason and logic wouldn’t work. Not with Delilah Piper, and definitely not when she felt an obligation to a friend.

Mick went only a few steps down the hallway before he saw the dim blue light of her computer shining in the otherwise dark apartment. He heard the light tapping of her fingers on the keyboard, and peered around the hallway corner.

Sitting there in front of her computer, her glossy hair mussed, a T-shirt her only clothing, Delilah looked totally absorbed in her writing. Mick leaned against the wall and watched her, aware of a strange twisting in his heart.

Never had he allowed himself to consider hearth and home and a family of his own. He’d become so discriminating with women, so particular, that he’d doubted any woman would Have ever appealed to him on that level.

But standing in a dark hallway looking at Delilah, he felt a contentment unlike anything he’d ever known. She was a woman of constant change and contradictions. She made him hot with her careless, comfortable air, and she kept his emotions turbulent with her daring and her stubbornness. And now that he’d laughed and argued and made love with her, he couldn’t imagine not having her in his life.

Insane, he insisted to himself. But his pulse continued to riot and his lungs constricted, and only a small part of that reaction was due to lust. Hell, he shouldn’t even have felt lust.

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