Harlequin Intrigue March 2017, Box Set 1 of 2 by Delores Fossen

Author:Delores Fossen
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781488016011
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2017-02-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

“So where do we go from here?” Hayden asked Jill as he stared down at her. He knew exactly where he wanted to go, back to bed, with her.

He was trying to take things carefully, trying not to screw up the tentative bond they were making. Jill was too important for a screwup.

“Where do you want to go?” she asked. Her lips were red from his kiss. She had such perfect lips. The sexiest mouth that he’d ever seen.

His fingers trailed over her arm. He hated that Jill had been hurt and that he hadn’t been there. If he’d just walked to her door. If he’d shoved that other guy out of his way. “Life is all about the missed moments, isn’t it?”

A faint furrow appeared between her brows.

“The things we don’t do. The risks we don’t take.” The moments they didn’t claim. “You ever think about that, Jill? How different life would be if one small thing changed?”

She swallowed. “Of course, I do. When I’m working a case…when I have to tell parents that their children won’t be coming home…those moments are all I can think about.”

The job was hurting her. He could see it.

“You’re one of those moments for me,” she continued. Her lashes lowered. “If you hadn’t come after me, if you hadn’t gone into that parking lot at just the right time, I know I wouldn’t be here.”

“You are here.” He tipped up her chin to make her look at him. “You are exactly where I need you to be.”

With me. Always…with me.

“Hayden—”

Her phone started ringing.

Jill gave a little laugh. “Someone has really terrible timing.”

He didn’t look away from her. “Let it ring.”

Her smile was bittersweet. “I can’t. It could be one of my bosses at the FBI. I’m supposed to be on vacation, but if it’s an emergency…”

If it’s a child who was taken. He nodded and stepped back. “Right. Get the phone.”

She brushed by him and grabbed her phone, catching it right in the middle of the ring. He saw her frown as she glanced at the screen. Then she put the phone to her ear. “Agent West,” she answered. After a moment, her frown deepened. “Hello? Is someone there?”

Jill waited a beat. Hayden stared at her.

She shrugged and hung up the phone. “Guess it was a wrong number.” But she bit her lower lip and stared at her phone. “Unknown number,” she murmured. She rubbed her brow with her left hand.

“Jill?”

She shook her head. “Sometimes, I can’t turn it off, you know? I get suspicious of everything. Of everyone.”

“You don’t need to be suspicious of me.” He wanted her to understand this. “You can trust me.”

He saw surprise flash on her beautiful face. “Trusting you was never an issue. Despite everything, you are the one person I trust completely.”

When she said things like that, the woman came close to bringing him straight to his knees.

Her phone rang again.

He saw the flash of Unknown Caller on her screen and his instincts made him say, “Turn on Speaker when you answer it.

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