Hard Breaker by Christine Warren

Author:Christine Warren
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: St. Martin's Press

Chapter Thirteen

Ivy drummed her fingers against the flap of her satchel and scanned the crowd milling around the Napoleon courtyard outside the Musée du Louvre. Baen stood at her side keeping his own watch. According to the last time she had checked her phone, it was six o’clock in the evening. The museum was closing its doors, sending throngs of visitors into the chilly air and making it that much harder to pick out an individual who might be wearing blue and sporting a yellow flower in his lapel.

Baen had already made it clear that he disapproved of this meeting spot Asile had chosen. While it was at least a large open area (the one thing he had grudgingly accepted as adequate for her protection) there were too many entrances and exits, too many areas where someone could conceal himself from view, and while the pyramid in the center might be made of glass, its metal framework and huge size still provided an impediment to his ability to see someone coming at them.

She had listened to him list his grievances, and understood his points, but none of them made much difference. Asile had set the meeting, not Ivy, so they would just have to deal.

Clenching her fingers to keep them from pulling out her phone so she could check the time again, she contented herself with grousing. “I hate waiting around. It gives me frickin’ hives.”

Immediately, the Guardian reached out to touch her, as if checking her skin for redness and bumps. Given that she had bundled up against the cold, the only bare patch he could find was on her neck. The caress of his callused fingers there had her toes curling in her boots. This was so not the time for him to be getting her all hot and bothered, not that he seemed to have to exert much effort for that.

Ivy had been trying hard all day not to think about last night, or about waking up this morning cuddled against Baen like a very happy kitten. He might have given her the most amazing night and the most intense orgasms of her life in the attic room of that little auberge, but that didn’t change anything between them. They still belonged to two different species, she still didn’t believe she was really a Warden, and Baen was still an immortal warrior destined to turn back to stone as soon as the Darkness was defeated.

Assuming any of them lived through the upcoming battle.

Baen squeezed her shoulder. “I told you we need not do this. It is a bad place for a meeting. Too much here cannot be controlled or accounted for. We can leave and send another message, choosing our own time and space.”

“And go through this all over again?” She snorted. “No, thanks.”

He grunted and dropped his hand to focus back on the crowd of people filling the courtyard. Personally, Ivy couldn’t spot anyone who looked like her contact. Plenty of people wore blue, but so

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