Over the Edge by Jeanie London & Leslie Kelly

Author:Jeanie London & Leslie Kelly [London, Jeanie & Kelly, Leslie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, General, Fiction, Contemporary, Adult
ISBN: 9780373791149
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2003-01-02T05:00:00+00:00

“YOU’RE TELLING ME that you never set off the panic alarm, Jake?” Mallory swept inside her foyer and tossed her keys on the hall tree, leaving him to lock up. She sidestepped the garment bag he’d left on the floor, a solid reminder that he’d shown up intending to spend the night.

“That’s exactly what I’m telling you,” he said. “Where did you get the idea that I had?”

She stared up into his face, the square jaw showing signs of nighttime stubble, the strong features set in granite, the warm eyes shielded from full potency behind wire frames and plastic lenses. Her impulse was to call him a liar because she’d known for ten years that he’d triggered the alarm. But Jake’s surprise wasn’t feigned. Neither was his curiosity. Mallory simply didn’t believe that a man as by-the-book and noble as this one would stand here and lie to her face.

And even if he was lying, she’d see right through him.

She didn’t.

“We need to talk.” And she’d never meant anything quite so seriously. “But my head is about to explode. I need to grab some acetaminophen. Do you want anything?”

“No.”

She made her way to the kitchen, trying to sort through the jumble of her thoughts. Something was so not right here. Every nerve in her body was on red alert and her head was pounding so hard, each throb vibrated straight to her toes.

Her dad had said he’d tripped the alarm, and every brain cell rebelled at the thought.

She hadn’t deluded herself into believing her dad was fail-safe, but tripping an alarm? That was a stupid mistake. Sure, Duke Hunt made mistakes, but not stupid ones. Never stupid ones.

Something strange had happened during the Innovative Engineering job, and she needed to find out what. Three gelcaps later she headed back to the living room to find Jake standing in front of the fireplace, looking as disturbed as she felt.

“What made you think I was the one who sounded the alarm?” he asked.

Sitting on her sofa, she glanced absently at the contracts and the mug of stone-cold espresso she’d brewed before Kyle’s call. Back when she’d believed she’d understood the situation with Jake and had it under control. “Who else was there in the building that night, Jake?”

“The security guard. I thought he was the one who’d sounded the alarm. But if you’re sure—”

“I’m sure. He was contained before my dad ever went into the vault and I met up with you. Opal and Eddie secured the monitoring station. The guard couldn’t have tripped an alarm.”

Jake nodded. “What exactly was your job that night?”

“Securing my dad’s egress from the building.” Her voice sounded flat and factual, but that night loomed inside her memory like a brewing storm, each image sharp, focused, as though illuminated by a strike of lightning. “I only needed to stall you for less than two minutes so he could complete the job and get out.”

“You did stall me.”

“Yes, and it should have been long enough. But we all got out and the law arrived before my dad cleared the building.

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