Harlequin Intrigue October 2016, Box Set 2 of 2 by Elle James

Author:Elle James
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781488024795
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2016-02-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

“I think I should go back to Cincinnati.”

Connor’s head shot up, his gaze disbelieving. “Are you insane?”

“I lived there for months, Connor, and nobody bothered me.”

“That doesn’t mean you could go back now without consequences.”

“My rent is paid through the end of the month and I didn’t send in a request to end my lease, so it’s not like my landlord is going to have rented my room to someone else. My job at The Jewel of Tablis wasn’t that great. I could get a different job. Or I could go without a job for a few weeks. It would leave me open to do more snooping around that way.”

“Quinn wouldn’t have pulled you out of there if he didn’t think there was a real threat to your life.”

“I think he’s proceeding with an overabundance of caution.”

“You make it sound like that’s a bad thing.”

“If it gets in the way of finding out who brought down that flight out of Kaziristan, it is a bad thing.”

“Risa—” He stopped with a sigh and rose from his crouch by the fire, which he’d been trying to stoke back to life. He crossed to where she lay curled up on the sofa, tucked beneath a warm quilt. Sitting on the coffee table, he took her hand between his. “Your hands are cold.”

“Please don’t try to talk me out of this, Connor.”

“I don’t want you to go back to Cincinnati. The thought terrifies me.”

“I feel as if I’m walking away from the first real break I had in the case.”

“It’s not your case anymore. Cameron, Quinn and Heller are on it.”

“No, listen, Connor.” She squeezed his hand. “I’ve been thinking about this ever since Cameron left this morning. Dal wouldn’t have put me in Cincinnati if he didn’t think I was uniquely suited for the investigation.”

“But you were there for months and didn’t discover a damn thing, did you?” He twined his fingers with hers, leaning closer. He smelled good, crisp and clean with just a hint of wood smoke from the fire, and she felt as if her insides were melting into a gooey mess.

“It was a delicate operation,” she protested, annoyed that she couldn’t seem to drag her gaze above his mouth. Connor was an amazing kisser, she remembered. Instinctive, knowing when she wanted a soft wooing and when she wanted unbridled passion.

Either would do very nicely at the moment.

But he’d been right to slow things down between them earlier. She wanted him as much as she ever had, and the way his blue eyes dilated with desire when he looked at her told her he felt the same raw longing that she did. But what they both wanted was what they’d had before the plane crash. Before her lies. Before his grief.

Until they could want something else, something built on the future rather than trapped in the past, then it was best to move carefully.

“You know what I think?” he murmured, a smile curving his lips.

“What do you think?”

“I think you’re getting stir-crazy.

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