Pillow Chase by Jeanie London

Author:Jeanie London
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2004-09-09T04:00:00+00:00

9

“SO WHAT HAPPENED to you last night?” Miranda asked with a yawn when she left the bedroom to find Troy seated at the desk with a mug of steaming coffee by his side.

Mmm, caffeine.

She didn’t wait around for an answer but followed her nose into the kitchen where half a pot remained. Pouring a cup, she made her way back into the living room.

Troy had spun the chair around and sat watching her, looking perfectly wide-awake and freshly showered. “I wondered if you were ever going to get up this morning.”

“You put me into a coma with that massage. I had no idea you could do that.”

“I usually try to arouse you, not put you to sleep.”

If the muscles in her face had been awake, she might have laughed, but talking proved enough of an effort. “So I passed out, and you left.”

“You relaxed, I got aroused. Since I couldn’t sleep, I got up to see what I could find on the senator. I figured I wasn’t going against his wishes since I researched him and not your grandmother.”

“A technicality at best.” Sinking down onto the sofa, Miranda stretched out and sipped her coffee, sighing as the hot brew seared a path down her throat. This caffeine needed to kick in fast if she was going to wake up thinking about yesterday. “So, did you come up with anything?”

He raked his gaze over her, a slight smile touching his lips, and she knew he was enjoying the sight of her rumpled and half-asleep. “Sure did. Turns out the senator was a BEL.”

“What’s a bell?”

“B-E-L, as in behind enemy lines. The Americans and British pooled resources to create a unit of special forces teams to send into occupied France and assist the French Resistance.”

“I learned about all this in school, but I’ve never heard word one in regard to my grandfather.”

“Classified.”

“Can you get in trouble over this, Troy?”

He shot her a look of bravado that didn’t reassure her one bit. “This information was classified during World War II, now it’s part of our military history. If one knows where to look.”

“I honestly don’t know that you should look. My grandfather expressly told me to stop digging around.”

“You weren’t digging around. Do you want me to tell you what the BELs did or do you want to discuss how to handle this situation now the cat’s out of the bag and we’ve got a problem?”

“Boy, do we ever have a problem.” The lure of the sofa called, and she let her head sink back into the cushions and closed her eyes, her whole body sluggishly resisting the warm rush of caffeine. Here she thought her biggest problem would be keeping up the Tease and Torture game so she didn’t ruin the last week of their trip.

Life was just full of surprises lately.

“Why don’t we forget that we ever got involved with any of this insanity and head home early?” she suggested, not missing the irony of running back to the witchy wives when she’d tried to escape them on this vacation.

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