My Royal Surrender by Riley Pine

Author:Riley Pine [Pine, Riley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance, Contemporary, Women
ISBN: 9781488082764
Google: n4pTDwAAQBAJ
Goodreads: 39891172
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2018-12-01T06:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER ELEVEN

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“ONE OF US is guilty as sin,” I whisper.

“Yes.” His fingers roughly trail down the side my face, slide under my jaw and thumb my chin, forcing my gaze to stay fixed on his.

“And it isn’t me,” I add in a confident purr.

“It isn’t me,” he says.

“One of us is a liar?”

His smile is small. “Darling, we are both liars. Lying is what we do. It’s in our marrow.”

I lean into him, letting my breasts brush his chest. “It isn’t all we do.”

Muscles cord in his neck as he swallows thickly. “No, we have many skills.”

I shimmy my hips a fraction closer, gloating at the harsh sound of his breath. I have to take my victories where I can. “So many.”

He has the door open and me inside before I can take my next breath.

His knife is cool against my throat. He doesn’t tremble. Neither do I. My blade is pressed to his throat, too, the tip teasing at the jugular. We dance on the edge, holding the other’s death in the palms of our hands.

“I suppose this is what you call an impasse,” he drawls lazily, as if our mortality isn’t pressing in from all sides.

“I would call it admitting that you are the mole,” I murmur. “Because I’m sure as hell not.”

He rolls his eyes. “Because of course a mole would saunter through the Order’s headquarters saying, ‘It is I, the mole, here to steal intelligence for a price.’”

“Aha.” I press the blade a fraction more—any more pressure and I’ll draw first blood. “So you admit you are betraying the Order for money?”

“No.” His nostrils flare in annoyance. “I simply said that is what a mole would be doing.”

“Just tell me why you did it,” I snap, annoyed to feel hot tears pricking the corners of my eyes. This isn’t what I do. I’m not a crier. I’m ice. I’m stone. Now that the queen has been reinstated to the throne, I’m the most feared female secret agent in the world.

I’m not a woman who makes it a habit to blubber over a man.

Tension ebbs from his body as his gaze hoods. “Put down the knife, Lora. We need to talk straight for a change.”

Shit. He takes me by surprise and I hesitate. He takes the advantage, twisting me around so my arm is pinned, the knife useless by my side.

Then a flash of sharp pain bursts from the side of my neck. The bastard stabbed me!

Wait, no... I grow light-headed. Max didn’t stab me with a knife. He...he injected me.

“Sodium pentothal,” he rasps in my ear. “The Order’s own special version. I’m getting to the bottom of this.”

The world moves slower, as if oxygen has transformed to invisible molasses.

“Truth serum,” I giggle, shocked he pulled one over on me. I’m impressed. It’s a first for me. “Are you fucking kidding me?”

“Sit on the bed.” He pushes me down and I comply like a rag doll. “Lora. Pet, what the hell have you gone and gotten yourself mixed up in?”

My head lolls on my neck as I study his cruel, unreadable expression.

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