Fatal Pursuit (The Aegis Series) by Naughton Elisabeth

Author:Naughton, Elisabeth [Naughton, Elisabeth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Montlake Romance
Published: 2015-07-28T07:00:00+00:00

Jake flipped the water off and ran a towel over his dripping hair. He’d shaved, then spent the last ten minutes under the cold spray trying to cool himself down and chill the hell out.

So far it hadn’t done a bit of good.

Stepping out of the shower stall, he wrapped the towel around his waist and tried not to think about what was going on in the main cabin of his plane, but failed. Marley was out there with McKnight, doing God-knew-what. Probably enjoying it more than she’d enjoyed it with him.

Fuck. He braced his hands on the edge of the sink, dropped his head, and drew in a deep breath. That—what had happened in the galley—was pure stupidity. Last night had been hallucinogens. But this . . . this had been too much adrenaline, too little self-control, and not nearly enough brain cells.

She was his employee, not his girlfriend. He didn’t even want a girlfriend. His track record with women proved he wasn’t relationship material—just like his father. Besides which, this was Marley. If he wasn’t careful from here on out, he could lose her for good.

An image of her dancing around that bonfire pinged through his brain. Followed by the way she’d kissed him in that hut, then dragged him to the floor and completely rocked his world.

His skin grew hot. His hands sweaty. More frustrated than he’d been when he’d come in here, he turned out of the bathroom, found fresh clothes in his bag, and pulled them on. What he really wanted to do was stretch out on the couch in his stateroom and sleep for seven hours, but he was too fired up to get any kind of rest. The only thing that was going to cool him out now was a bottle of Jack and a few hours of mindless television.

He opened the stateroom door, intent on finding that bottle, then drew to a stop. Marley sat on the couch, her back angled Jake’s way, holding McKnight close. His hand ran up and down her spine in an intimate way as he whispered words Jake couldn’t make out. Neither seemed to notice him, but Jake’s stomach twisted into a tight, hard knot at the sight, and before he could retreat back into the safety of his stateroom, McKnight’s eyes lifted and zeroed in.

If he’d seen gratitude or relief or even happiness in the other man’s eyes, Jake would have turned around and left them alone. But he didn’t see any of that. What he saw was victory. A flash of gloating, then a whisper of something dark.

Every alarm bell he had went off all over again. This guy was not at all what he seemed. Jake didn’t care what Marley believed. No way in hell he was leaving her alone with McKnight.

He stepped past the pair and headed toward the galley. At his back, Marley said, “Jake. I didn’t hear you come out.”

No, of course she hadn’t. Because she was too wrapped up in McKnight to notice what he was doing.

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