Killer Countdown (Man on a Mission) by Amelia Autin

Author:Amelia Autin [Autin, Amelia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2016-08-01T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

Despite not being a morning person, Carly was dressed and getting into the car beside Shane at seven-thirty. “I have time to drop you at your office before I go to work,” he’d told her in the wee hours of the morning.

“You don’t have to,” she’d stated. “The network’s studio is out of the way for you.” Niall’s condo wasn’t all that far from the Capitol Building, and if Shane didn’t have to take her to work, it would be a straight shot for him. “I can take a cab,” she’d added. And sleep in, she’d thought but hadn’t voiced.

“Humor me,” he’d said stubbornly. “I can’t guard you 24/7, but I can at least make sure you get to and from work safely. What time should I pick you up after work?”

Now Carly watched Shane through sleepy eyes as he drove his Mustang GT through the DC traffic, shifting gears effortlessly. Occasionally she sipped from the travel mug of coffee he’d handed her just before she’d walked out the door. She hadn’t had time for breakfast—she never had time for that in the morning as a general rule before heading to work—but she couldn’t survive without coffee.

At first she’d been surprised Shane knew how addicted she was to coffee, then she realized she shouldn’t be. He was incredibly observant...and they had spent one night together in her town house—and a morning after. She hadn’t been able to offer him much in the way of breakfast that morning, but she had brewed fresh coffee for him—her Café Du Monde coffee and chicory blend that she bought from a little Chinese grocery not far from her house. It cost her an arm and a leg because she couldn’t buy it most places—only in New Orleans’s French Quarter, online or in Chinese grocery stores almost everywhere, though at a premium price. But she’d fallen in love with the coffee the first time she’d visited New Orleans, and it was her only indulgence.

Shane turned toward her when they stopped at a stoplight and smiled the heart-stopping smile that had garnered him a few extra votes in the last election. “Awake yet?”

“I’ve been awake since you woke me at six...mostly,” she assured him. “But you’ll never make a morning person out of me.”

His smile turned wicked. “A challenge. I love a challenge.”

The light changed and he turned his attention back to the road, for which Carly was grateful. He wouldn’t see her flushed cheeks as the memory of how he’d awakened her this morning floated through her mind. Not to mention the memory of how he’d kissed her when he’d brought her home from the interrogation following the reception at the Zakharian embassy, and said, You’re dead on your feet. Sleepy, early-morning sex might be great, but not for our first time.

There’s no “might” about it, she barely stopped herself from saying out loud. Sleepy, early-morning sex with Shane was great. And if she had to wake up early, that at least made up for it.

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