Hot Winter Nights by Jill Shalvis

Author:Jill Shalvis
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2018-09-24T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

#ImFine

The next morning, Lucas woke up alone. Not a surprise. Molly didn’t seem fond of morning-afters.

Something they shared.

She’d been in a meeting with Archer when he arrived at the office. At his desk, he eyed the wallet sitting next to his laptop. He’d done a thorough search of the ID in the wallet. Santa’s given name was Nick Russolini but he was going by Nicolas King—which they already knew. The only things in the wallet had been sixty bucks’ cash, a driver’s license, and a Domino’s pizza card.

No signed confession that he was stealing from old ladies.

But digging deeper, Lucas discovered the guy had enough identities to give even the FBI a run for its money. Shaking his head, he brought up a new search screen, planning on running the aliases all together to see if there was any crossover. But his fingers did something he’d avoided doing for a long time now. He typed in Molly Malone instead.

If he hit the enter key, he knew he’d get a crash course in all things Molly. He wanted to know more than what she was willing to tell him, such as what had happened to her, for one.

His mind flashed back to last night, lying in his bed holding a sleeping Molly, her body sated and still against his. He’d been able to feel the soft heat of her breast against his chest, the gentle touch of her hand on the stubble of his cheek . . . There weren’t a lot of things he cherished more than the memory of being with her like that, and how she’d touched him, body and soul.

He was still staring at her name on the screen, his finger hovering over enter when she walked by his office and met his gaze, her own both warm and extremely wary, which tugged at his heart. She wasn’t okay with this, not yet, not even close.

Holding her gaze, he knew. He would never hit enter. Whatever she’d faced, she’d tell him when she was good and ready.

And he was willing to wait for that.

She opened her mouth, but Joe walked into the room and grabbed the file he’d left on the table, and whatever she’d been about to say, she kept to herself.

Joe glanced over at the two of them, narrowing his eyes at Molly. “Something’s different. You do your hair?”

She put a hand to her head and scowled at him. “No.”

Joe cocked his head. “New dress?”

“No!” She tossed up her hands. “I’m just feeling . . . good. Is that so out of the ordinary?”

“Yes,” both Lucas and Joe said at the same time.

She rolled her eyes and tried to walk by Joe, who stopped her and dipped down a little to stare into her face. His smile faded. “Who is he?”

“Excuse me?”

“You clearly . . .” He grimaced. “Got some. Who the hell is he?”

Molly gave him a shove. “You’re kidding me, right?”

“Did you vet him?” Joe asked.

Molly shook her head. “We are so not having this conversation.

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