Harlequin Presents September 2016, Box Set 2 of 2 by Kate Hewitt

Author:Kate Hewitt
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781488023064
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2016-02-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWELVE

WHEN BLAISE HAD pulled a gun on her in the quiet, snowy street, Scarlett had thought bitterly of how Vin had ordered her to keep a bodyguard nearby. Why hadn’t she listened?

Because she’d never imagined she might need a bodyguard in the center of Rome. She’d never imagined that anyone might want to attack her…

“I’ve been watching your house for a week,” Blaise had said, keeping his black revolver trained on her. “Hoping to get you alone.”

“Why?” Her teeth chattered. “You can’t still want to…to marry me?”

“Marry?” His lip had twisted scornfully as he came closer, until she could smell the sickening stench of old sweat half masked with musky cologne. “I’m way past that now. Your husband made this personal. He ruined my life. Now I will do the same to him.”

Snowflakes fell softly against her skin. But that wasn’t what froze her to the bone. “How?”

“He loves you.”

“You heard us argue—”

“Yeah, I heard it all. It’s perfect.” His smile became venomous. “Now when you disappear, he’ll blame himself for the rest of his life and think he drove you away. He’ll always wonder. He’ll never know.”

“You can’t!”

“Watch me.” With his gun still trained on her, he snatched her crystal-encrusted clutch bag from her hand. “My car is around the corner…”

“I’m not going anywhere with you.” She straightened. “Shoot me here.”

“You’ll go. Or my next stop will be at your house. Your baby is there, with no one but the housekeeper to protect him. Shame if they had a little accident. If the doors were blocked and the place went up in flames.”

“No!” she cried, whimpering at the thought. “I’ll go with you. Just leave them alone…”

“That’s more like it.” Blaise motioned with the revolver. “Over there, in the alley…”

But as she started to move, the front door of the palazzo banged open. Quick as a flash, Blaise grabbed her, placing her in front of him, holding the gun to her forehead.

Scarlett nearly cried when she saw Vin had come out of the palazzo. His black eyes went wide when he saw them. Then his hands clenched into fists.

“Let her go, Falkner.” Vin’s dark gaze focused on Blaise. “We both know I’m the one you want to hurt.”

“Not just hurt. I want to destroy you. And hurting her—” he gripped into her shoulder painfully, causing Scarlett to gasp aloud “—is the best way to do that.”

Vin took a step toward them. “We can talk about this. Negotiate…”

“There’s nothing to negotiate, and if you take one more step, she’s dead.”

Vin stopped. His voice was low. “You’ll die the second after she does.”

Blaise gave a cackle. “You think I care? You took everything from me, Borgia. My whole life. I can never go back. And now neither can you…”

Blaise pressed the cold barrel of the revolver sharply into her skin.

Vin threw Scarlett a brief glance full of meaning. “You’d attack her from behind?”

And she remembered that rainy afternoon in October. Here’s how to use your own body weight

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