Men of Danger by Lora Leigh

Author:Lora Leigh [Leigh, Lora]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, General, Suspense, Fiction, Short Stories, Anthologies (Multiple Authors)
ISBN: 9780312576363
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2010-04-27T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 3

BROOKLYN, NY, CROWN HEIGHTS

ZACH WAITED ON the huge St. Marks Avenue brownstone steps juggling supermarket bags

along with his suit bag and waiting for his three godsons to open the front door. He had

questions for his buddy Lowell and a short two-hour window to shower at Lowell's apartment,

shave, change into the fresh suit he was gonna wear, before he had to be back on his post at

Anita Brown's apartment by nineteen hundred hours. Now Lowell was sick and possibly

couldn't do the security detail? That cell phone call while he was driving almost made him veer

off the road.

This wasn't like Lowell and this whole thing was spinning off course, he could feel it. The first

problem was the tux thing. Now he'd have to get there fifteen minutes early to change into what

ever Anita Brown's stylist had found, which had never been a part of the program-- he was just

a driver.

Truthfully he'd planned on staying in Manhattan, grabbing something to eat there, and just

looping back to pick Anita up. What was this tux thing? Now he was an escort? Although he

had to admit that wasn't a completely bad thing, he didn't like sudden itinerary changes. And if

he was going to add security to his list, then he really needed to sit with Lowell, see the layout

of the exits at the Apollo, figure out how to maneuver Anita through the crowd, then there'd be

paparazzi to contend with. This was not a simple thing, especially if she was being stalked.

He was just glad he'd had the foresight to bring enough clothes with him and stuff for the kids

that he was able to stash in the limo before he'd left for AC to go get Anita, which saved yet

another stop to go pick up his gear at some hotel somewhere.

But there was no getting around the fact that he didn't like how this woman had totally jacked

him up-- he couldn't stop thinking about her, couldn't stop picturing her walking through her

apartment in the buff . . . which was like something out of a magazine. Yeah, stop thinking about

her body and think about the apartment. That would keep wood at bay.

Floor-to-ceiling windows on three sides, a breath-taking view of the park like he'd never seen.

Insane art, flowers all over the place. The joint was spotless, seemed like a hotel, like no one

ever really lived there. Baby grand piano, pieces of furniture that looked like one-of-a-kind

pieces-- this was how she lived? What man could compete with that? It was sobering and

definitely a wood killer.

But the sound of children dragged him away from his careening thoughts. He laughed as he

heard the commotion of three sets of impatient little feet running down three flights of stairs to

greet him.

Sure, Anne Marie had buzzed him in, but there was a ritual to be observed; the kids wanted to

jump him and hang all over his body like extra appendages as he trudged up to their apartment.

The ten-year-old would be on his back, the five-and seven-year-olds clinging to his already

overburdened arms, with

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