ON THE RUN WITH HIS BODYGUARD by Tara Taylor Quinn

Author:Tara Taylor Quinn
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin Enterprises ULC
Published: 2023-02-28T16:40:20+00:00

Chapter 13

Joe was on his way to bed, to go over spreadsheets and employees, job responsibilities and time schedules, in light of the new information he’d received that evening, when McKenna called him back.

He stopped at the door into the bathroom. Was she going to suggest heading to the back with him? Growing hard at the thought, he said, “Yeah?” Trying not to sound too eager.

Or needy.

“I just need to be clear about something...”

If the clarity would lead her to bed with him...

“What’s that?”

“If we ever do, you know, do the bone thing...and I’m not saying that I’m up for it, just if...it would only be for the moment...”

He’d already figured that one out. She was a two-couple beach fire and he was a catered-bonfire gathering of two hundred.

Beyond that, even if he found that he could do the beach fire, he was still a very rich man to whom the security of wealth meant more than he could give up, and she’d made it very clear that she wanted no part of that life.

“Can I ask you something?” Leaning his shoulder against the edge of the pocket door he was about to close, he watched her settle back into a corner of the couch, phone in hand.

“Of course.”

“Those stipulations you had the court put on your visits with your grandparents...”

“Yeah?”

“Do you still require them to abide by them?”

“It’s no longer a matter of needing to require it,” she told him. “Once they really understood how I felt, they’ve made certain that they don’t ever put me in a position of having to ask.”

He had no idea how much he’d been hoping for a different answer until it didn’t come.

And yet, with the completely solid understanding that even if he and McKenna took their relationship to a personal level it wouldn’t be anything long term, Joe had less trouble concentrating than he’d expected when he sat up in bed half an hour later, spreadsheets in front of him.

He still wanted McKenna, but the differences between them weren’t going to be breached, which meant that anything that happened between them would only open the door to one of them getting hurt.

He wasn’t worried about himself. Normal relationship hurts would almost be a welcome change from the majority of the pain he’d suffered in his life. And holding her in his arms, knowing her intimately, would be worth any resulting heartache.

Knowing that, because of him, she was hurting...not so easy to dismiss. That would eat at him, and he’d end up not liking himself.

Reaching that point, his thoughts were finally able to be consumed by the information he’d received from Glen that night. He had to find the evidence that had been eluding him for months and get McKenna out of his life before anything more happened between them.

In the past two days, Sierra’s Web’s experts had given him not only new information regarding the fraud at Bellair, but new insights, as well.

He had no timelines—except that he knew when he’d been in the office.

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