Good Girls Don't by Dahl Victoria

Author:Dahl, Victoria [Dahl, Victoria]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2011-09-13T00:17:41+00:00

“LUKE?”

“Mmm?” God, he’d make an effort at pillow talk if she wanted, but he felt drugged. The sheets were crisp and cool, her body was one long line of heat against him, and his skin still buzzed in some strange limbo between numbness and heavy pleasure. “What’s this?”

He opened his eyes expecting her to be looking toward some picture or random knickknack in his room, but then he felt her hand touch his side. Oh.

He closed his eyes again.

“Is this where you were shot?”

“No. That’s where I was stabbed.”

“Stabbed?” Gasping, she pushed herself up to stare down at him. He was still trying to ignore her, but he opened his eyes to take in the view of her breasts.

“Luke!” she slapped his chest impatiently.

“What?”

“How did that happen?”

He sighed when he realized all his lethargy had vanished. Tension crawled back into his muscles like swarming ants. “I was stabbed.” When she started to growl, he added, “During an arrest.”

“Oh, my God, were you okay?”

He watched her breasts as she bounced with emotion. “I’m alive, right?”

“Luke. Up here.”

He shook his head. “If you want to have a conversation, I suggest you lie back down. Or put on a shirt. But preferably lie down.”

She flounced down, her elbow pressing into his ribs until her arm finally settled its warmth across his stomach. Her fingers feathered against the scar.

“It was pretty bad,” he said matter-of-factly. “Hit the intestines. Sepsis. All that.” All that. He’d been in the hospital for weeks. He’d nearly died.

“I’m sorry,” Tessa said, her words whispering over his shoulder. “Was it here in Boulder?”

“No. L.A.”

“Oh.” She didn’t ask any more. Didn’t press him. And maybe that was why he said it, answering her unspoken question without really answering it.

“My mom came out. She stayed with me, so I wasn’t alone. I moved out here a few months later.” Of course, Tessa couldn’t know what he meant, but her hand flattened and covered the scar as if she could heal it. It had been the lowest point of his life, lying in that hospital bed. He’d known he was close to dying. He’d felt death pushing him into that thin mattress, holding his limbs down. In that moment, he’d wanted one person with him. Just one person. And she hadn’t come. After everything they’d been through, she hadn’t come.

Tessa kissed his shoulder. He closed his eyes.

“Do you want to talk about it?” she asked. He shook his head. He didn’t want to think about Eve. She had no place here.

“Where were you shot?”

“In my back, across my shoulder blade. It was minor.”

“Another arrest?”

“Yeah. It was my first week on the job.”

“You’re kidding.”

He felt a smile tug at his lips. Thank God he could laugh about it now. “I’m not kidding. I wasn’t even supposed to be in danger. I was in the hallway of an apartment during a big bust. One of the dealers fired his gun and the bullet came right through the wall and grazed me. You can’t imagine the kind of shit I took for that.

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