Conception Cover-Up by Karen Lawton Barrett

Author:Karen Lawton Barrett
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2013-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

ALONE IN THE OUTSIDE OFFICE, Shannon wondered why she was still sitting there when all she had to do was get up and leave. She stood and looked around, thinking she would do just that, when a framed photo on the wall caught her attention.

She walked over to it. It looked as if it had been taken at some company get-together. Caleb’s smiling face was the first she noticed. Flashing his dimple, he looked happy and cocky and totally full of himself. The captain was there, also smiling, as were the two men who’d just walked in.

She turned her attention to the remaining figure in the photograph. He was taller than the other four, and whipcord lean, an arresting figure. His dark-blond hair was wavy and a little long. He probably had a hard time keeping it out of his sky-blue eyes.

As her gaze returned to Caleb, she compared the two and decided they were like night and day.

“The one in the yellow shirt is Brandon Everly, my partner.”

Shannon started at the sound of Caleb’s voice. She glanced at him, then back at the face of his friend. This Brandon seemed so full of life. Maybe it was the grin, she thought. With a grin like that, he was sure to have the ladies falling at his feet. It was hard to imagine him lying in a hospital bed, felled by a bullet.

She looked back at Caleb. “Will he be okay?”

He shrugged, but there was nothing casual about it. “He’s in a coma. The doctors can’t be sure of anything until he wakes up.”

She touched his arm. “I’m sorry.”

He gazed down at her. Her eyes met his, saw the barely banked flames of desire and felt her breath catch at the intensity of her body’s reaction to that heat.

“Come home with me, Shannon.”

She shook her head. “I can’t.”

He grasped her hands. “You can. We have things to talk about. I have things to tell you. There’s no privacy here.”

She thought of pulling her hands from his, but found she had no desire to end the connection. “I really don’t think that’s a good idea. Maybe we could go have a cup of coffee somewhere.” It flashed into her mind that caffeine wasn’t good for pregnant women. Shannon swung away from him, fearful he might read her secret in her eyes.

Caleb put his hands on her shoulders and leaned close to her ear. “I don’t want coffee.”

I want you.

The words remained unspoken, but Shannon didn’t need to hear them. She knew. “Caleb, I can’t…we can’t…” She turned around, intent on convincing him that the two of them together would never work. But the minute she looked into his eyes, she couldn’t remember even one of the hundred reasons she’d come up with.

“Come home with me, Shannon.”

It was both a plea and a command. And simply irresistible. In her eyes he was no longer a cop. He was the man who’d made love to her. The man who was the father of the tiny being she carried beneath her heart.

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