Lady and the Vamp by Michelle Rowen

Author:Michelle Rowen [Rowen, Michelle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2010-12-23T23:47:48.016000+00:00

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Chapter 13

He had to get rid of Janie as soon as possible. She managed to do things to him, without even touching him, that other women had to work very hard at. Just one look in her beautiful blue eyes and all he wanted to do was protect her.

But Janie Parker didn't need his protection.

Well, maybe from the falling truck, but that was about it.

The way she'd stood up to the ghost? She'd protected him. He wasn't used to that. Nobody usually protected him from anything.

He damn well liked her way too much. Forget infatuation. Forget lusting after her body. Those things were too simple for what he was feeling.

He liked her. As a person. And that "like" was growing stronger every moment he spent near her, growing into something larger and deeper and much scarier than anything he'd faced before.

The last woman he'd thought himself in love with told him that he was fooling himself. That his feelings for her were simply those of gratitude for friendship and kindness during a rough time in his life. He'd convinced himself he was in love with her, and he had been. A little.

But this. He knew this was much different, and it felt way more complicated.

Shit.

She walked ahead of him on the road. Conversation had slowed to nothing at all, and they trekked along the dusty trail. They'd been walking for nearly an hour since leaving the ghost town and seen nothing at all except mountains and cacti and dirt. Not even one car had come along.

He watched her move along at a clip. She never complained about her feet, or that she needed to take a break. She now carried her jacket, and he focused exclusively on her perfect ass in her tight dark blue jeans as she moved along ahead of him.

The ass of the enemy, he thought absently. Which suddenly stopped in its tracks.

She got the map out and looked at it.

He'd been so focused on watching her walk that he hadn't even noticed the big black tree they'd come up to.

It was well over twenty feet tall, with a thick trunk leading to hundreds of sharp branches. The whole thing was the color of coal, and it bore no leaves, as if it had been on fire once and died but still refused to give up. It was surrounded by a low fence, and a plaque was attached to the trunk.

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