Hard Evidence by Laurie Gilbert

Author:Laurie Gilbert
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: California Beaches, police drama, crime stories, identical twins, female cops, contemporary romance, happy endings
Publisher: Laurie Gilbert
Published: 2021-02-03T00:00:00+00:00

THROUGHOUT LUNCH THEY talked and laughed, frequently touching as they sat side by side at the table. They kept the meal simple: cold sandwiches, fruit and diet sodas. Her troublers slipped farther away as Scott peeled an orange and fed her juicy slices with his fingers. It was nearly two o’clock when they finished eating. Laurel stood and took her plate to the sink. Scott followed close behind. He reached around her to set his plate in the sink as she turned. He didn’t back away. She smelled the tangy scent of the orange they’d shared.

All she had to do was lift her hand to his chest and give a gentle push. She couldn’t do it, didn’t want to do it. Her heart pounded with excitement. She tipped her head back slightly to look into his eyes. Their darkness captivated her as they moved from her eyes down to her mouth and back.

“I want you,” he said in a low, husky tone free of all pretense. His hands rested on the counter on either side of her, but he held his body away from her. The decision would be hers alone, not made under duress or under the hypnotic spell he could weave with his touch.

Laurel reached up to pull him closer, but he resisted. She wasn’t surprised to find he needed to hear the words. “I want you, too.”

Slowly he narrowed the distance between them, keeping his eyes steadily fixed on hers. He enclosed her in the circle of his arms, moving his hands down her back, creating a fire under the soft cotton of her T-shirt.

She wrapped her arms around his neck, pulling him tighter with a spell of her own.

He lowered his head until his lips touched hers, the lightness of the touch at once erotic and maddening. She stretched upward to deepen the kiss. His hands stroked up and down her sides, his thumbs lightly skimming over the sides of her breasts. She ached to know the feel of his bare skin against hers. When she strained against him, he let out a slow moan, then moved his hands to cup her buttocks.

Lifting her off the floor, he sat her on the edge of the countertop, rotating his hips into the space between her legs. Her breath grew short. He pulled his mouth from hers and trailed moist, butterfly-soft kisses down her neck to her collarbone. The light caresses left her wanting more.

“So sweet...” he whispered against her throat.

She wanted a lot more. “Wait,” she breathed heavily.

As he lifted his mouth from her skin and gazed into her eyes, she reached for the hem of her T-shirt and pulled it over her head.

Slowly, he let his gaze drift downward. She felt a moment of anxiety as she remembered the unfeminine scars of the bullet wound. Scott slid the strap of her bra down her shoulder, then lowered his mouth to the entrance scar, kissing the still-puffy pink flesh with tenderness. He ran his fingers lightly over the larger scar on her back.

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