Enchanting the Beast by Maggie Dallen

Author:Maggie Dallen [Dallen, Maggie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-08-24T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

For the second time, Holly hovered in front of Spencer’s door, but this time she had nothing to hide behind. There was no platter full of cookies to tell her how ridiculous she was being. There was only the vague sense of guilt that had her stomach churning and her heart racing.

She stopped to remind herself why she was doing this.

If she succeeded, they wouldn’t have to worry about paying rent, they wouldn’t be buried alive by medical bills, and Lexy could finish her last semester the way she and Eve had always intended.

She straightened her shoulders. And all she had to do was be persuasive. She didn’t have to actually sleep with the guy. Though kissing him again did have its appeal….

No. That way lie danger. It was a slippery, treacherous path if she let herself cave to temptation. Then she’d be back where she had been the day before with a muddled view of what was right and what was wrong.

Once she got her paycheck, maybe then she could afford to sit around and ruminate over the ethical implications behind what she was doing. Maybe she’d even let herself stop and daydream about what if.

What if she hadn’t met Spencer like this. What if he’d never been her mark and she’d never had to stoop so low. What if he’d actually cared about her.

She let out a long exhale. There would be plenty of time for what ifs later.

She knocked before she could doubt herself any more. She had a plan and she was sticking to it. Granted it wasn’t much of a plan, but she had to stick to her strengths. She was straightforward and she was honest—sort of. Most of the time. It was time to go with that.

Her brilliant plan relied on the assumption that he still didn’t know exactly what she was up to. Oh, he might have guessed she’d had an agenda in getting close to him but the fact that he was asking around told her he didn’t know what exactly that agenda entailed. He certainly didn’t know the specifics or that detective wouldn’t have come sniffing around the hospital. Heck, she didn’t even know the details of Jack’s plan, only her part in it. And her mission was simple. She just had to get him to a meeting.

She’d do that but she’d do it her way. She’d be honest—sort of.

Her hands clenched into fists as she heard him approach on the other side of the door.

She’d be as honest as possible…and she’d flirt with him.

That conviction helped to keep her standing in place when the door swung open, even though what she really wanted to do was run in the opposite direction.

Spencer looked good. Heck, he always looked good. Her eyes had lost the ability to be objective now that she knew him. It was like her brain had created warm, fuzzy crush goggles specifically for her and only around this man.

Hadn’t she thought he wasn’t classically handsome? She studied him now as he smiled up at her like nothing was wrong.

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