Harlequin Intrigue July 2018--Box Set 1 of 2 by Debra Webb

Author:Debra Webb
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2018-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWELVE

Even though they’d both dozed on the plane to and from Miami, it hadn’t been what Donna thought of as “quality” sleep. She was so exhausted, she fell asleep the moment she leaned back in the passenger seat of the little blue Ford Focus they rented at the McGhee Tyson Airport. And she didn’t wake up until Blake shook her awake in a hotel parking lot somewhere in Knoxville.

She rubbed her bleary eyes, a flush of guilt heating her face when she saw how tired he looked. “I’m sorry. I know you’re just as wiped out as I am. I should have offered to drive.”

He gave her a sleepy, incredibly sexy grin. “We’d have been in a ditch just a few blocks down the road from the airport when you fell into a coma. You sure do fall asleep fast.”

He leaned over the back of the seat and grabbed their satchels that contained just a few days’ worth of clothes and toiletries—plus their pistols and ammo, of course.

“Where are we?” she asked.

“The neon lights spelling out Embassy Suites doesn’t give it away?”

“Ha ha.”

He smiled again. She noticed he smiled more when he was tired, as if it was the only time he ever truly let his guard down. It did incredible things to his already handsome face, making her stomach tighten with want.

If she wasn’t so tired, she might have jumped him just to finally get that crazy desire out of her system—and find out once and for all if he wanted her, too. But as tired as they both were, she knew that wasn’t even on the radar.

As they walked under the portico to the front doors, she asked, “Seriously. Where are we?”

“Knoxville West, just off I-40. I’ve been here before, so I knew it was decent and clean. I called on the way and made a reservation. They only had a few rooms left. Since I couldn’t get two on the same floor, I settled for a suite. Hope that’s okay. It’s got a separate bedroom and a sectional couch with a pullout sofa bed.”

“I wouldn’t care if we had to share the same bed at this point. I could probably sleep on the floor in the lobby right now.”

His eyes had widened when she mentioned sharing a bed, but he recovered quickly, with another one of those sexy grins. “I think they frown on people camping in the lobby here. Let’s at least get up to the room before you sink into your coma again.”

She couldn’t help wondering why he’d been to this hotel before. He’d lived in Knoxville, so why would he stay in a hotel instead of his house? Or apartment? Or wherever he lived? Had he brought a date here rather than take her back to his place? And why did that thought make her feel so pathetically jealous? It wasn’t like they’d ever dated. And even though she’d been mooning after him for months, he’d always been the perfect gentleman—much to her dismay.

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