Hold on to Me by Linda Winfree

Author:Linda Winfree [Winfree, Linda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Contemporary, Fiction, Romance, General, Mystery & Detective, Suspense
ISBN: 9781599989754
Publisher: Samhain Publishing
Published: 2007-11-30T16:00:00+00:00

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Caitlin jerked into awareness, senses on full alert. A delicious ache pulsed between her thighs. Darkness surrounded her; weight and warmth lay next to her. A distinct male scent sank into her consciousness and she relaxed. Tick. She was in Tick’s bed and he slept beside her, a soft intermittent snore tickling her ears. She could stay here forever.

But somewhere, beyond the dimness of the bedroom, her phone beeped. She disentangled from Tick’s easy hold and slid from the bed. He turned his face into the pillow, murmuring in his sleep.

She picked up his polo and tugged it over her head before padding into the living room. A light from the kitchen illuminated the area and she retrieved her cell phone. The display indicated voice mail waiting, despite a weak signal. She listened to Gina’s single message and Vince’s six.

Letting the phone redial, she slipped out the back door. Frogs croaked above humming crickets in the moist night air, and she settled into the rocker near the door.

“Geez, Cait, do you know what time it is?” Gina said after the fourth ring. The cellular connection hissed, Gina’s voice fading in and out.

Caitlin tucked her feet beneath her. “Actually, I don’t.”

“It’s almost three in the morning. Where have you been?” A suspicion-filled pause hung on the line. “Is Calvert’s nose bleeding?”

If it weren’t, it wasn’t for a lack of trying. Her body quivered with remembered sensations of having him inside her. “Something like that.”

“Good for you.” Gina’s words ended on a yawn. “It’s about time you loosened up a little. You need something more than the job in your life.”

“It’s just sex, Bocaccio.” She’d made sure of that. This time, she hadn’t let the emotional connection take place. She’d held complete control.

Or rather, she’d tried to, until he’d started talking and had wrapped that gorgeous voice and the decadently sensual memories around her.

Silence hovered on the hissing line. “Did you tell him?”

A tiny green frog hopped across the floor, tapped her toe and turned the other way. Moonlight washed the pine trees lining the river with silver. She swallowed. “No.”

“And you’re putting up the don’t-touch-me walls, aren’t you?”

Caitlin laughed, the small, brittle sound hurting her already tight throat. “I have no clue what you mean.”

“Come on, Cait, this is me. You can be honest now. You’re scared to death someone’s going to get close enough to see the real you because you think once they see the reality, they won’t want you anymore. I could lay odds that’s what you’re doing with Calvert, too. The sex is a diversion to keep him from getting too close.”

Tears burned her eyes. “I’m the one with a psych degree, remember? You’re the computer expert. Stick to analyzing cache records and virus codes, would you?”

Another silence fell between them. “You’re falling for him all over again, aren’t you?”

Damn Gina for never taking a hint, never beating around the bush. “Yes.”

“You’re playing a dangerous game.” Hesitancy hovered in Gina’s voice. “You said yourself he’s all about truth, justice and the American way.

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