Dangerous Revelations by Lisa Jackson

Author:Lisa Jackson [Jackson, Lisa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781488030178
Publisher: HQN Books
Published: 1993-03-23T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

NOTHING WAS SETTLED. In fact, things were worse now than when he first set foot back on Gold Creek soil.

Lying on the motel room bed, Jackson tossed his key ring into the air and caught it. He’d figured on a lot of things when he’d returned. He hadn’t been surprised at the cool reception he’d received in town and he’d expected a hassle when he went to the Gold Creek police department and asked for information, but he hadn’t guessed that one feisty little woman would get to him. And she had. In a big way.

Ignore her. Stay away from her. Keep your distance. He’d warned himself off her a hundred times in the past twenty-four hours and yet he couldn’t get her out of his mind. Swinging his feet from the bed in frustration, he stretched. His entire body was tense, coiled, as if ready to strike. And seeing Rachelle hadn’t helped relax him at all. He’d been in town nearly a week and in that time he’d learned next to nothing. His friend at the attorney general’s was still “working on things” and Timms, the private investigator he’d hired, told him, “This kind of work takes time. Hell, it’s been twelve years, what’s the rush?”

The rush was Rachelle. She’d been the siren’s call that had brought him back here and now she was intent on shoving him out the door. As if she, too, weren’t here to settle old scores.

Well, things were going to change. He hadn’t traveled across the country just to stroll through the shrines built to the Fitzpatrick family. He had business to do, and he’d better do it and get out of town while his feelings for Rachelle were still somewhat under control.

What a laugh! Who was he kidding? Whenever he was with her, control was the last thing on his mind. When he thought of the last time he’d seen her, how he’d physically shoved her up against the wall and kissed her—forced her into submission—his stomach churned. When it got down to basic animal lust, maybe he and Roy Fitzpatrick hadn’t been so different after all! The thought disgusted him and he told himself that from here on in, he wouldn’t push himself on Rachelle. He’d take it slow. Despite the freight train of adrenaline that rushed through his body every time he set eyes on her.

The phone rang and he answered it with a gruff, “Moore.”

“So you’re still alive and kicking, eh?” his partner, Boothe Reece, asked over a poor connection that linked him to New York. “I thought maybe you’d taken a permanent powder.”

“I’ve been busy,” Jackson said, walking to the window and stretching the cord of the phone so that he could survey the day. Warm rays of California sunshine were flooding the street outside. A kid on a bike rode by, a dog chasing after him in a slow lope. Gold Creek. Homey. Warm. Cozy.

Unless you were Jackson Moore.

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