Cold Touch by Leslie Parrish

Author:Leslie Parrish [Parrish, Leslie]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance, Contemporary, Suspense, Fantasy, Mystery
ISBN: 9781101516430
Google: Us2ik9fozdEC
Amazon: 045123300X
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Goodreads: 11503418
Publisher: Signet
Published: 2010-12-31T13:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

Olivia arrived downtown a half hour before this morning’s scheduled nine a.m.

meeting. She knew Julia wel enough to know her boss would be there early

and wanted a chance to talk to her before the others showed up. The others

being her coworkers and the two Savannah detectives who had suddenly

found themselves working with their former enemies.

She wasn’t sure how Gabe and his partner felt about it. They hadn’t even

discussed that part of this whole working-together idea, even though she’d

spent a couple of hours curled up against him on the couch last night. Talking.

Only talking.

At first, they’d talked about ugly things, sad memories. But then, as the night

had grown deeper and he’d continued to stay, their conversation had rambled.

As if they’d both suddenly realized they’d been al wrapped up in darkness

from the minute they’d met, and maybe it was time to stop, take a mental

health break and just talk about absolutely nothing that mattered.

They’d talked movies and TV shows, cars and sports teams. She’d told him

he was a cretin for preferring country music to jazz, and he cal ed her a snob

for insisting it was just wrong to eat a big, sloppy burrito with your hands.

Then they’d laughed. They’d laughed a lot.

By the time he’d left, at around one—without anything more than a soft

brush of his lips on her temple—she’d been so relaxed, in such a good mood,

she’d gone to bed and hadn’t had a single bad dream. She’d stil woken up

early, tense for some reason, but there had been no nightmares. Giving it

some thought this morning, she realized that was probably exactly what he’d

intended.

She’d told him she wasn’t ready to chase away the darkness her usual way,

so he’d found another one. She could love him for that, she real y could. What

a man.

Stil , with al their talking, they’d never touched on how he felt about her

coworkers and the joint endeavor they were about to undertake. He wasn’t the

only one who might be having cold feet; she wasn’t sure how Aidan would

react, either, considering he was the one who’d practical y had his face

printed on Wanted posters by the local police. But it was worth a try. The two

detectives had agreed to give it a shot, to pool their resources, off the books,

at least for a day or two, just to see what happened.

Just to see what happened . . . Hmm, hadn’t that been what she’d been

thinking about when she’d kissed Gabe Cooper yesterday? The problem was,

she had not been satisfied with what had happened. It had been incredibly

nice, but she’d wanted more. A lot more. Yet last night, when she’d been in his

nice, but she’d wanted more. A lot more. Yet last night, when she’d been in his

arms, she hadn’t pushed it, knowing she liked him, liked being with him, as

much as she wanted him.

She definitely wanted him.

Olivia hadn’t had a no-strings affair in, wel , ever. Honestly, she wasn’t sure

she wanted one now. Something about Gabe pul ed her strings but good. She

had the feeling that if she did become more intimately involved with him, those

strings would only grow tighter.

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