Out of Control: Troubleshooters 4: Troubleshooters 4 by Brockmann Suzanne

Author:Brockmann, Suzanne [Brockmann, Suzanne]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9780755380091
Publisher: Headline
Published: 2012-05-09T16:00:00+00:00

Eleven

‘What are you doing here?’

It was a damn good question – and one that Jones had an easy answer for. He held up the book that had managed to find its way into his bag yesterday afternoon on the boat.

‘This is Molly’s,’ he said. ‘I’m returning it.’

He’d found it this morning, in with his stuff. She’d probably missed having it to read last night before she went to sleep. It didn’t seem right to make her wait until tonight to give it back.

Billy Bolten’s voice was loaded with hostility. ‘She’s in the middle of a class right now.’

Jones knew. He could see her with about a dozen little kids in the shade of a tree.

Billy reached for the book. ‘I’ll give it to her when she’s done.’

Jones stepped back. ‘No, that’s all right. I’ll wait.’

He glanced over at Molly again and at that exact moment, she looked up and saw him. And smiled.

It was like being struck by lightning.

Yeah, right, he was here to return the book. That was just a lame excuse. What he’d really wanted was to see Molly. To see that smile. To try to sweet-talk her into running with him all the way back down the trail to his camp, so he could pull her into his arms and kiss her, pull up her skirt and lose himself inside of her soft heat.

Jesus, he wanted her. He’d woken up wanting her, just as he’d known he would.

Billy laughed with derision. ‘You’re totally wasting your time, man. She is so out of your league.’

‘Ain’t that the truth.’ She looked over at him again, and this time the warmth and – Jesus – admiration in her eyes pissed him off.

She thought he was some kind of hero. She thought he was special, that he was good and kind and just like her.

But she was wrong.

He was a liar and a thief, and as soon as he got tired of her, he would take what little she had and never come back.

The thought of never coming back made his chest ache. But it would happen. When he left, it would be because he wanted to.

‘Don’t mistake her friendliness for something that it’s not,’ Billy warned him.

‘I know,’ Jones lied. ‘She’s already told me she just wants to be friends.’

‘Really?’

‘Yup.’

‘Yeah, that’s what she told me, too.’ Billy warmed considerably toward him at that news, just as Jones had expected. They would now bond in their mutual misery.

Billy sighed. ‘I know she’s older but there’s something, I don’t know, magical about her. When she smiles . . .’ He lowered his voice and leaned closer. ‘You know, you can’t help but look at her and imagine just what she could do to you with a mouth like that.’

Jones kept his own voice low, his tone easygoing. ‘If you ever say anything like that again – no, if you so much as think those thoughts, I will come into your tent in the middle of the night while you are sleeping and cut your balls off.

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