Into the Shadow by Dodd Christina

Author:Dodd, Christina [Dodd, Christina]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romantic Suspense, Horror, Paranormal, Fiction, Romance, Occult Fiction, Romantic Suspense Fiction, Abduction, Good and Evil
ISBN: 9780451224514
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2008-05-03T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nineteen

It was him. It was Warlord. She knew him as soon as she tasted him. "How dare you? How dare you play this game with me?"

Warlord watched her, his deceptively pale eyes never leaving her face.

‘‘Get out.’’ She yanked herself out of his arms. ‘‘Just get out, and never come back.’’ She reached down to page her chief of security.

His reflexes had not slowed. He plucked the pager from her hands and tossed it at the chair, placing it right in the cushion, where it bounced and came to rest.

Blind with rage and disappointment, she wound up to hit him again—and he picked her up and swung her around. He pressed her back to the wall and slid his hands beneath her legs, wrapping them around him as confidently as he’d moved her across the dance floor. As confidently as he’d lulled her suspicions and made her think he was a trustworthy, unassuming piece of fluff of a man, when in fact he was the most intense, savage creature who ever donned a business suit.

She shoved at him. ‘‘Put me down. This isn’t the Himalayas, and I’m not some wimp of a woman who’s too afraid to get up and go.’’

‘‘You do yourself too little justice.’’ He no longer bothered to disguise his tone. The way he spoke, the purr in his voice, that was all Warlord. ‘‘You were never a wimp, Karen. You were a creature of fire and passion, and you showed me the light when I was far gone into the dark.’’

‘‘What a pile of crap.’’ She was so angry her heart pounded in her throat. Her cheeks burned. She squeezed the cords of his shoulders between her fingertips. ‘‘You came here to make a fool of me.’’

‘‘I came here to save you.’’

‘‘From what? Myself? From my foolish desire to be a normal woman who lives in the US, wears dresses and heels, and has a girl job?’’

With acid in his tone, he said, ‘‘You seem to have mistaken me for your father. But you called him your stepfather, didn’t you?’’

‘‘What do you know about my stepfather?’’ Her voice shook with fury.

‘‘Only what I could glean from hours of Internet research.’’ He sounded both sarcastic and knowledgeable. ‘‘Add to the discovery that after you got back from Nepal, you went home for an hour, left, and never returned, and that was enough.’’

She hated that he’d invaded her private life, nosed around, assembled enough information to make good guesses on her relationship with Jackson Sonnet. ‘‘Now I realize I should have done research on your family, seen if I could figure out what makes you tick.’’

‘‘My family keeps a low profile.’’ He slid his fingers along the edge of her neckline to the dip in her cleavage.

She took advantage of his distraction and slammed her forehead toward his nose.

He dodged to the side. ‘‘Why are you fighting me? This is what you want.’’

‘‘How the hell do you figure that?’’

‘‘Did you think you could wear my bracelets and

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