Hot Pursuit by Lynn Raye Harris

Author:Lynn Raye Harris [Harris, Lynn Raye]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, azw3
Tags: Hostile Operations Team#1
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWELVE

EVIE WAS GONE. MATT BLAZED through the rooms, methodically checking for signs of her, but she wasn’t anywhere. Two cakes sat on the counter and the house smelled like chocolate. The front door had been locked, but the back door was open.

Fear turned his gut to ice. He sprinted for the safe he knew his father kept behind the Early American landscape in the study. He whipped the painting away and turned the dial. The combination hadn’t changed in years and he was counting on that still being the case. After the third click, he wrenched open the door and reached for the pistol that’d always been inside.

The safe was empty. Fine time for the old man to remove it.

Matt swore again and took off for the back veranda. He’d have to make do with a knife and years of intensive combat training. A litany of all his fuck ups ran through his brain.

He should have left the rehearsal sooner. He shouldn’t have trusted that she would be fine, no matter that she was tough and smart. He should have protected her.

He slipped into the backyard, scanning the bayou in either direction. If a boat had passed by, it wasn’t recent. There was no wake, no disturbance to indicate anyone had been here. His next option was to head for town and see if he could get a lead on her. Whoever had taken her couldn’t have gotten far, whether by boat or car.

And someone had to have taken her. Evie wouldn’t have left without telling him. He was certain of it. He had to get it together and think like the machine he’d been trained to be.

Or he could lose her for good.

Matt bounded up the steps and back into the house, pulling up short when he stepped over the threshold.

Evie looked up from where she was sitting at the island and shot him a weak smile. “They haven’t called yet. I’m getting worried.”

She twirled her phone on the marble counter, lines of sadness and worry bracketing her mouth.

Matt crossed the distance in two strides and crushed his mouth down on hers. She gasped, clutching him. Heat and want spiraled deep in his belly and made him long to strip her and lay her out on the marble island while he took his fill of her. His dick started to harden and he let her go abruptly, struggling to find his center. Focus, goddamn you.

She looked stunned. And aroused. Her pink lips glistened. Her chest rose and fell a little faster than usual, her skin flushing. God, he wanted to taste her. All of her. One night wasn’t nearly enough.

“What was that about?” She sounded as breathless as he felt.

“Where have you been?” He was proud of how calm he sounded.

“In the garage. I was cleaning up the mess we made.”

The garage. Shit. He hadn’t looked in there. And why not? Another indication he was losing his touch. When he hadn’t found her in the house, he’d panicked. The garage had been the furthest thing from his mind.

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