In Bed With the Devil by Susan Mallery

Author:Susan Mallery
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance, Promises, Contemporary, General, Millionaires, Fiction, Love Stories
ISBN: 9781426804052
Publisher: Silhouette
Published: 2006-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

Seven

W hen Jack finished getting dressed after his shower, he debated going downstairs for coffee or heading up to the loft to check in with his office.

Coffee won, mostly because he hadn’t gotten much sleep the previous night. Sharing a bed with Meri had been anything but restful.

He walked out of his bedroom, then paused at the landing to look at the picture he’d mostly avoided since arriving at the house. It showed him and his friends during college. When everything had been easy and they’d called themselves the Seven Samurai.

Hunter laughed into the camera, because he’d always enjoyed whatever he was doing. Luke and Matt—twins who couldn’t be more different—held Ryan in a headlock, while he and Devlin poured beer over the group. He knew that just outside the view of the camera sat a teenage girl on a blanket, her head buried in a book. Because Meri had never quite fit in.

Hunter had worried about her, especially after he’d found out he was dying. That’s when he’d asked Jack to take care of her.

“Hell of a job,” Jack muttered to himself as he turned away from the picture. Sure, Meri was all grown up now, a woman who made her own choices. That was her excuse for what had happened the previous night. What was his?

He’d wanted her. Who wouldn’t? She was smart and funny and pretty as hell. She challenged him the way no one else dared. She was sexy and irreverent and so filled with life and ideas. Hunter would have been proud of her. Then he would have turned on Jack like a rabid dog and beaten the crap out of him. Or at least he would have tried. Knowing it was all his fault, Jack knew he just might have let him.

So now what? Meri had claimed she wanted to seduce him, which she probably thought she had. Did they just move on now? Pretend it hadn’t happened? Because it shouldn’t have, no matter how good it had been. If he could turn back time…

Jack shook his head. No point in lying to himself. If he could turn back time, he would do it all over again. Which made him a pretty big bastard and a sorry sort of friend.

He glanced back at the photo. Now what?

He heard footsteps on the stairs. But instead of a petite blonde with an attitude, he saw Betina climbing toward him.

“Morning,” he said.

She reached the landing and looked at him. There was something in her eyes—something that warned him she was not happy about certain events.

“What?” he asked.

“That would be my question to you.” She drew in a breath. “Look, it’s not my business—”

Great. She was going to get protective. “You’re right. It’s not your business.”

She glared at him. “Meredith is my friend. I care about her. I don’t want her to get hurt.”

“What makes you think that’s going to happen?”

“It’s in your nature. You’re the kind of man who is used to getting what he wants and walking away.

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