DEFENGING THE EYEWITNESS by RACHEL LEE

Author:RACHEL LEE [LEE, RACHEL]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: ROMANCE - - SUSPENSE
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2014-03-01T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

Austin wrapped Corey in his arms and held her close beneath the covers. If she could have purred, he suspected she would have. He had enough experience to know that he had truly pleased her. Honestly, he probably would have purred, too, if he could. Other lovers, other times, other places, nothing quite matched what he had just shared with this woman.

He wanted to luxuriate with her in this, but he wasn’t the sort who could lose track of reality for too long. That had helped keep him alive for six years. But right now he was asking himself only one question: Had he just made the biggest mistake of his life?

This woman had given him an infinitely precious gift and he knew it. But in his way, he had barged right in, first telling her how she was hiding, then taking her to bed. While she might be feeling wonderful at the moment, and she seemed to be, it remained that he might just have added to the scars she already bore.

He’d shoved past her walls, breaking down her carefully constructed defenses, at least where he was concerned. He wasn’t sure if idiocy had pushed him, or desire, but either way he might have weakened something she truly needed.

He didn’t feel very good about himself right then. Sooner or later he was going to have to go back to work. Back to D.C. What would that do to her? She’d let one man into her tower and then he took off?

God, it had been killing him to watch her live in that prison, but now he’d yanked at least one bar out and he had no way of knowing if he’d made her less safe by doing it.

She stirred and snuggled closer. He immediately tightened his arms around her. One special woman. Maybe he just needed to focus on that part.

“I’d like to do that again,” she murmured.

He brushed her hair back from her face. “Me, too, querida.”

“What’s that mean, querida?”

“It derives from the verb querer. To want, to need, to desire. So you can translate it as dear, or darling, or more bluntly, woman that I desire.”

Her lips curved. “Mmm, I like that.”

“It’s a common endearment between couples.”

“I like that, too.”

Couples, he thought. Were they a couple? She probably thought so. Maybe they were. He’d certainly spent enough time trying to get into Rapunzel’s tower. The only question he hadn’t asked himself was why.

Sighing at his own stupidity, he held her close and caressed her, thinking that he’d better get himself sorted out fast, before he made things worse for her.

He suddenly remembered something his uncle had said to him one summer when he was sixteen and visiting the finca. He’d been exchanging longing looks with the daughter of a neighbor, a beautiful girl of fifteen. Her dark eyes had snapped at him, and if she’d ever escaped the watchful eye of her dueña, something might have happened between them. But then his uncle took him aside and gave him a warning.

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