Erin's Kiss by Lora Leigh

Author:Lora Leigh [Leigh, Lora]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2017-06-12T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER 8

Her attacker had gotten away.

Erin stood silently as she listened to her brother’s report, aware of Turk close behind her. The warmth of his big body, the feeling of security he exuded kept that first, hard flare of fear from igniting inside her.

“Sorry, sis.” John D sighed, his light-blue eyes concerned as he watched her carefully.

“Nothing was taken from the apartment that I could see,” J.D. assured her. “Your window is being repaired as we speak. I’ll have a female agent come in and pack your things. When we leave I’ll make arrangements to have you transferred…”

“No.” Surprised, the word popped from her mouth before she could hold it back.

J.D.’s eyes narrowed slowly, tension radiating through his body with such energy. Erin swore every male in the room followed suit with instinctive dominance.

Give her a break. She was going to smother from testosterone at this rate.

“What do you mean, ‘no’?” her stepfather finally growled.

“I’m not leaving, J.D.,” she informed him firmly.

“Then I’ll fire you!” The threat was an old one. Even John D. smirked at the sound of it.

* * *

“And you’re not firing me either.” Erin moved carefully away from Turk, all too aware that he and Cooper were none too pleased with J.D.’s warning.

J.D. glowered back at her. “Erin, this is serious,” he informed her as he leaned forward slowly and braced his hands on the counter. “You were attacked.”

“I wasn’t hurt.”

Sometimes, it was best to simply stare him down.

“Have you looked at your face yet?” he snapped when she didn’t blink. “Take a look in the mirror then tell me you weren’t hurt.”

She snorted at that. “It hurt more when John D. wrecked the four-wheeler last summer. And the bruises were worse.”

J.D. turned to his son slowly. “You said you were alone,” he reminded John D. with a hint of anger.

John D. shook his head with an air of brotherly exasperation.

“Come on, Dad, I told you she lies on me. Those innocent green eyes are hiding a heathen determined to get me disowned,” he accused her

Erin rolled her eyes at his statement. Sadly, J.D. was used to them.

“I’ll get to the bottom of the four-wheeler wreck later,” he snapped, straightening from the counter. “Get your purse. I want to get you out of here before anything else happens.…”

“She said she wasn’t leaving!” Turk didn’t raise or lower his voice. He stepped closer to her, tension sizzling through the atmosphere around him.

J.D. and his son turned to him, nearly identical expressions of surprise on their faces now.

“I can handle this, Turk,” she breathed out wearily as she glimpsed the determination that filled his face and tightened his body.

J.D.’s smile was tight. John D. smirked back at her.

Really? she thought. Did she really have to deal with this bullshit tonight? Hadn’t she put up with enough already?

“I’m not a bone,” she informed them all as Turk moved in closer to her back, nearly touching her now.

John D. took a seat on the other side of the counter, propped his elbow on the counter, and rested the hard curve of his chin on his fist.

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