Mystery Lover by Lisa Childs

Author:Lisa Childs [Childs, Lisa]
Format: mobi
Tags: Suspense
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2010-06-01T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Fighting free of the desire gripping him, he reached up and caught her hands, manacling them in one of his. What the hell had he been thinking?

“I wasn’t reaching for the mask,” she said, her voice soft with a sincerity he dare not trust.

He knew women lied. He had grown up listening to his mother tell lies…to him, to the men she’d conned, but even more to herself. Then his ex…

He couldn’t even think about the lies she had told him, how she’d just been after his money. She’d played him like Jillian Drake tried to play him now—for her exclusive. He could not trust her. And he sure as hell shouldn’t be kissing her.

“I swear,” she persisted, “I was just touching your hair. It’s so soft…like your lips.” She rose up on tiptoe again and slid her mouth across his, tasting and teasing him. She was so damn sweet. Her tongue touched the tip of his. She tasted like candy—something sweet but tart, too.

“Jillian…” he murmured against her mouth. He needed to warn her that her efforts were futile; he wasn’t about to reveal his secrets to her.

But her tongue flitted into his mouth, and desire coursed through him so powerfully that his body shook from the overwhelming force of his need for her. Lifting her in his arms, he knelt on the edge of the bed and lowered her to the mattress. He needed to pull away, to leave her alone. But she clung to him, arching her sexy body into his. Her breasts pushed against his chest.

His control stretched to the breaking point. But he couldn’t let go. He could not make love with her no matter how much his body ached with desire for hers. He released her hands, which she eased between them, trailing her fingers down his chest, her nails dragging across the thin fabric of his shirt.

He pulled back from the sweetness of her mouth and shook his head, trying to clear it of the passion clouding his judgment. He was not the fool she thought him; she could not seduce him into revealing his secret.

He intended to hold her underground until his plan culminated, but even after it was all over, he still couldn’t let her learn the truth. She was too good a reporter and his story too unique for her to not want to divulge it. His was the kind of story that would make her career; it would be picked up nationally. And he’d have no privacy. No escape.

He couldn’t escape her now. As he tried to pull away, she wrapped her arms around his waist, clutching at his back to hold him to her. He groaned at the sensation of her soft body pressed tight to his.

She tensed, her green eyes wide with concern. “I’m sorry. You’re hurt. I forgot about the other night. The explosion. The blood.”

“It wasn’t mine.” Not all of it. He’d gotten some cuts, but nothing like what had happened to his friend, what should have happened to him instead.

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