Night Watch by Carla Neggers

Author:Carla Neggers [Neggers, Carla]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
ISBN: 9780373255610
Goodreads: 843686
Publisher: Harlequin Temptation
Published: 1993-10-01T00:00:00+00:00

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Rowena let him in. If she was embarrassed about yesterday, she gave no sign of it. If she even remembered yesterday, she gave no sign. Joe knew he himself still looked like hell. He could see her noticing, wondered if she could guess why he hadn’t shaved, why his eyes were bloodshot, why he had a thermos of hot coffee hanging from his thumb. Wondered if she could tell that he could carry her upstairs and make love to her right now. Could even take her into the drawing room and make love to her with her beady-eyed stuffed animals looking on.

It wasn’t going to go away of its own accord, this hunger he had for her. He realized that now. Like hunger for food, like a vitamin deficiency, a thirst, it wouldn’t go away until it had been satisfied. He had to have her in his arms again. And even then the desire would still be there.

He gritted his teeth. Such professional thinking.

Rowena did not look like hell. She had on a sleek tropical-weight wool pantsuit in a warm, rich brown that made her skin seem even creamier, even more touchable. Her hair was pinned up, as tight and formal as she was pretending to be. The schoolmarm, the ice princess.

The untouchable virgin.

“Good morning, Sergeant,” she said, her voice cool, calm, professional. But her eyes didn’t linger on his, and he could see the faint color high in her cheeks, as close to a betrayal of her awareness of him as he would get. She glanced at the thick-banded watch on her slender wrist. “It’s almost eleven. Mr. Tyhurst will be here at any moment. Might I suggest the drawing room?”

Joe felt himself beginning to relax. What an act. He decided to go along with it. “For him or me?”

She pursed her lips; she had a luscious, sexy mouth. “You. Mr. Tyhurst and I will conduct our meeting in the parlor across the hall.” With a slight nod she indicated the room through the archway to her left; it looked friendlier than the one she had in mind for him.

He shrugged. “I won’t be able to listen in.”

“Do you need to?”

“Afraid I won’t understand what you two are talking about?”

The lips pursed again; he saw they were highlighted with a blackberry-colored lipstick. Very appealing. He could almost taste it. She said, “That’s a highly defensive remark, Sergeant.”

“It wasn’t a remark—it was a question.”

“My point is, if I need you, I’ll call.” A half smile. “If I’m in any danger, you’ll have no trouble hearing me.”

“If I so much as sense you’re in any danger, sweetheart,” he said, sexy, deliberately cocky, “you won’t have a chance to yell. I’ll be there first.”

She tilted back on her heels, her arms folded on her breasts. “So sure of yourself, aren’t you?”

“Of many things, no. Of that, yes.”

And he turned on his heels and headed into the morgue.

“Hey, guys,” he said cheerfully as Rowena Willow snapped the sliding pocket doors shut behind him in a huff.

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