Harlequin Love Inspired Suspense May 2017, Box Set 2 of 2 by Debby Giusti

Author:Debby Giusti
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781488019203
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2017-12-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TEN

Isabelle kept an eye on the officers from the back of the store. They seemed to be waiting for something. After the Tower situation, she wondered what it would take to get the police to agree to give her protection until the conference was over.

Matt followed her gaze and lowered the ice pack from his head. “I wish we knew who was targeting you. If we had an educated guess, maybe we could talk the DA into getting a court order for your protection.”

She almost reached out to brush his hair back, to check on his injury. They were friends. Friends could do that...not usually after they’d pretended to get engaged, though. “Is that the only way to get police protection? A court order?”

Matt nodded. “I’m afraid so. Earlier today, an officer was making his rounds while I waited for you to finish the conference. I asked him about it. He said it makes the whole situation more difficult because we don’t know who is targeting us.”

She blew out a breath and pushed her hair back out of her face—the same hair that Matt had held back earlier. Her eyes drifted to his hands, and then his arms and the strong chest that had shielded her from hitting the ground at full force. He’d always been protective in high school, but she’d assumed it was in a big-brother sort of way. She never imagined he’d ever thought of her as anything more, even while her heart beat madly for him.

“The pharmacist says he’s got a couple other orders he has to fill before he can get the pepper spray. Looks like we have time to kill.”

She cringed at the innocent expression. It reminded her too much of the close calls. She turned away so she’d stop staring at him. “Do you ever think back on our friendship? About how odd it was?”

He shifted and stepped closer to her, which was the exact opposite of her intention. She felt his breath on her forehead.

“How do you mean?” he asked, his voice husky and soft.

“Don’t you think it’s rare that a guy and a girl would become best friends? I didn’t think so at the time, but looking back—”

“Easy. We were a lot alike.”

It was her turn to ask him what he meant, because from her vantage point, she couldn’t grasp how he’d arrived at that conclusion.

“Don’t get me wrong. We’re still very different people,” he said. “But we were both independent, both driven to succeed, both control freaks—”

“I’m flexible,” she countered. “I moved all over the country. Home was wherever I was. And it’s my out-of-the-box thinking that helped discover...” She caught the smirk on his face. “Okay, maybe I’m a little bit of both.”

“You have to be. Just like I have to. It’s what makes us good at the detail-oriented nature of our jobs.”

“True.” She tried her best to block out the words that ran through her head, the same words he claimed he’d only said because

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