Cavanaugh's Surrender by Marie Ferrarella

Author:Marie Ferrarella [Unknown]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Suspense
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2012-10-01T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

Damn, but he was tempted. Really, really tempted.

If they weren’t working together, if they weren’t focused on trying to find who had killed her sister and possibly several other women, Logan would have felt freer to indulge his curiosity.

But he was walking a tightrope here.

It was up to him to make perfectly sure there were no missteps with this investigation so that if they actually found a viable suspect, the case wouldn’t be tossed out of court on some irritating-as-hell technicality.

Like tainted evidence.

Would kissing a fellow investigator in an unplanned moment of extreme attraction and overwhelming weakness be considered the basis for undermining such an investigation? Logan would have been the first to admit that he wasn’t really clear on the concept, but all the same, he didn’t think so.

Or was it that he didn’t want it to be so?

Oh, the hell with it, he thought with a surge of impatience as he symbolically threw up his hands in frustration.

The next moment those hands framed her face—odd how delicate she actually felt, considering that she came on like some indestructible gangbuster.

And then, anticipation coursing through his veins, Logan lowered his head and contact was made.

Extremely pleasant contact.

No, on second thought, Logan amended, the word pleasant had no place here. Mainly because the kiss wasn’t pleasant. It was overwhelming, breath stealing, earthmoving and a whole host of other descriptions meant to convey something incredible, something leagues out of the ordinary. Pleasant was a word meant to describe an old-fashioned drawing room comedy or a semicold beer—rather than a preferable completely cold one. Pleasant was a joke that made you smile, not laugh out loud.

This kiss made him want to shout.

Logan could almost feel his blood rushing through his veins and definitely could feel his adrenaline increasing in tempo. As for his heart, it was hammering so hard, he was surprised it hadn’t broken through his rib cage and fallen at her feet.

Without fully meaning to, he deepened the kiss, and lost himself in the revelry.

Oh, no, no, no!

What was she doing? Destiny silently demanded. Why was she kissing him back? She should be the one calling a halt to this, the one setting an example, not melting in his arms.

But the plain truth of it was, despite the fact that she knew all the reasons she shouldn’t be doing this, she knew of only one reason why she should.

Because she wanted it to continue.

Wanted to just lose herself in this man with the lethal lips. Wanted, just for a moment, not to think about anything. Not death, not being alone.

Not even Paula.

For this sliver of a moment in time she wanted just to feel. To absorb hot sensations and not make excuses or place them into neatly labeled categories.

Was that so wrong?

Yes, when it interferes with getting your job done. When it interferes with getting Paula’s killer.

She had a dozen arguments against what was happening. And only one for it. It made her feel human. More than that, it made

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