Heartbreak Hero by Frances Housden

Author:Frances Housden [Housden, Frances]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Suspense
ISBN: 9781426880889
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2010-10-20T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

B eside him Ngaire stirred from sleep, searching for more space in the confines of the narrow bus seat. The imprint of her head on his arm would linger long after she’d straightened. Knowing she trusted him enough to let her guard down as she slept tugged at Kel’s conscience.

Already tired from her escapade in the caves, combined with a ton of walking and souvenir hunting, she’d fallen asleep immediately, still clutching her damn day pack. She never let the thing out of her sight. Hell, she probably even slept with the damn bag.

Looked like he might have to take Chaly’s advice and sleep with her to get a look inside it for the formula.

The nursery rhyme she’d been giggling over as she drifted off rang in his head as if she’d sussed him. Baa, baa, black sheep, have you any wool? He was the black sheep of his family, always had been, and always would be.

Ngaire was the dame, trouble in a way only dames could be. She’d lied about that scrape on her arm, though he didn’t know why. Her scent when he’d reached her in the cave had been of exertion, not fear. As a precursor to death, he knew that sharp, sweet aroma only too well.

But who was the master? The drug cartel or someone else, the boy or boys down the lane? The game he played had become top heavy with players on the other team.

He watched Ngaire’s eyes widen as she came to, blue and innocent as a newborn babe’s. What a doll, to look the way she did yet work for the worst set of characters on God’s earth. He wondered how long she’d been using her looks to fool the police and Customs. She acted as if she’d never been anywhere before, but he was sure her passport told otherwise, unless she had more than one of them.

She stretched again, lifting her arms behind her and emphasizing the thrust of her breasts. He wouldn’t have been human if he hadn’t watched and remembered the weight and shape of them in his hands. She had everything going for her and then some, and it would take living up to his code name, Heartbreaker, to keep him safe.

“Where are we? And what is that smell?” Her face creased as she turned to squint between their seats as if she thought the source of her nose’s discomfort came from the two ladies in the next row who were playing some serious mah-jongg.

Farther back, some of the men played poker. Big money was changing hands, but they weren’t to blame for what ailed her.

“No need to be polite about it, the odor is sulfur, but the name of the place isn’t hell, just Rotorua. We entered town about ten minutes ago, and closer to the center the smell gets worse. But don’t knock it, to the inhabitants it’s pure gold. Twenty-four karat at least.”

She plugged him with a disbelieving look. “And folks live here all

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