Dangerous Secrets by Lisa Renee Jones

Author:Lisa Renee Jones
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 2012-04-04T14:00:00+00:00

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It was nearly nine at night by the time Julie stepped onto the elevator after a partner meeting to head back to her floor. She texted Luke as she’d promised and let him know she was almost ready to leave, despite a long list of things to do. The worst thing on that list was the absolute need to take off the next afternoon to handle the charity event. She loved doing charity work, especially for kids, but the timing and the complete lack of preparation the judge’s email had indicated made this one a small crisis at a bad time.

She exited the elevator and walked past Gina’s long-abandoned desk, drawing up short at the sight of Luke waiting on her in her office.

“You trying to starve me or what?” he asked, shutting his laptop he had open on top of her conference table.

She would never get used to how her skin heated just from seeing this man. “How long have you been waiting?”

He indicated the wrappers on the desk. “Long enough to eat two Snickers and a bag of crackers and be hungry all over again.”

“I’m sorry,” she said. “I thought you were going to wait until I texted you. I’ll grab my purse and we can eat. I’m starving, too.” When she would have walked to her desk, he pulled her into his arms.

“I’m starving, too,” he said. “For you. Did you miss me?”

His voice was low, his breath a warm, teasing trickle against her lips and from anyone else, at any other time in her life, that question would have led her to a fun, flirtatious retort. With Luke, it was filled with implication, and still she found herself saying, “Yes. Yes, I did.”

The air in the room thickened instantly and crackled with a spark that could easily turn to outright fire. “Good,” he said, his thumb stroking her cheek. “Because after you left me out there on the sidewalk I wasn’t so sure.”

“You’re very good at making me do crazy things I shouldn’t do.”

He smiled. “So it was my fault?”

“Of course,” she teased. “Everything is the man’s fault, unless he’s my client or you feed me. Seriously. I’m starving.” She kissed him and pushed out of his arms. “I’m getting my purse.”

Twenty minutes later, they’d walked a few blocks down the road to one of New York’s many wonderful hole-in-the-wall pizza joints, many of which Julie frequented probably too often.

“We have the place to ourselves,” she said, settling at one of the tiny white tables with her giant slice of cheese pizza.

Luke joined her with two equally giant slices of pepperoni. “So,” he said, watching her fold her pizza like a sandwich and take a big bite. “Tell me about the charity event tomorrow night.”

She almost choked, and grabbed her drink to swallow. “How could you possibly know that?” she asked, when she finally recovered.

He leaned in closer. “The judge’s phones were tapped even before we planned the same.”

“So the police suspect he killed her?”

“It’s even bigger than that,” he said, and she listened as he recounted what he’d learned that day.

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