Chase Me by Tamara Hogan

Author:Tamara Hogan
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance, Fantasy, Suspense, Paranormal, Fiction
ISBN: 9781402246067
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Published: 2012-05-31T21:00:00+00:00

Lorin was driving him nuts.

Somehow, she’d brought the scent of the north with her—pine, wind, wood smoke—and he’d almost reached for her several times during the long hours it had taken to run initial tests on the exterior of the box. Her hair was loose, spilling over her shoulders like a waterfall. She sat across the room, at the small desk she’d requested to perform her own work, fingers moving lightly over the keyboard. In the lab’s bright light, Gabe could see the double-grooved rumble strip of concentration—or was it annoyance?—that creased the skin between her eyebrows.

She’d ignored him all day, so he was pretty sure he wasn’t the cause.

While her back was turned, he removed his glasses and carefully rubbed at his eyes, not that it would dissipate the subtle, milky haze slowly but surely filming his remaining field of vision. Cataracts. He’d known what the diagnosis was before Dr. Mueller had opened her mouth—they’d expected it, they’d been watching for it—but… damn. As if the macular degeneration wasn’t enough to freaking deal with.

He closed his eyes and rubbed the bridge of his nose. Working in the lab this morning had been a reality check, revealing just how much his fine visual acuity had deteriorated. The tricks and coping mechanisms he used for computer work—increasing the screen brightness and font size, and tilting his head slightly to the left to compensate for the gaps in the center of his field of vision—just didn’t lend themselves to microscopic work.

Now was the absolute worst possible time for him to have surgery, but his work today had exposed how much he needed it.

Suddenly Lorin stood and stretched, long and lithe. “Gabe? I’m not doing anything here but watching you work. Do you really need me here?”

He slipped his glasses back on as she strolled toward him. Unfortunately—fortunately?—he could now see that little slice of belly her stretch had exposed. Her luscious scent perfumed the sterile air.

“I thought I’d hang around in case you needed something, needed some tests logged, needed water, needed something—but you haven’t needed anything. Mumble, mutter, rub your eyes. You’re doing fine without me.”

Right. “Thank you for staying,” he said. “I know you can’t start working until I finish. I’m working as fast as I can.” She was visibly fidgety and twitchy. Whomever she’d shared her bed with last night hadn’t done a very good job. “If you have something”—or someone—“else to do, please. Go ahead.” Okay, that was surly. Throttle back. “Wait. I do need your help with something. I need a small scraping.” He indicated the box glowing under the lights like the priceless treasure it was. “Where the hell do I take it from?” Her gaze met his with an expression of horror. “Yeah. It’s like deciding where to deface the Mona Lisa.”

“Oh, man.” Lorin raised her hand to her mouth and dropped it as she squared her shoulders. She took another breath. “How much do you need?”

Why did she have to keep talking about need? He needed, all right.

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