Protecting Peggy by Maggie Price

Author:Maggie Price
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Man-Woman Relationships, Contemporary, General, Romance, United States - Officials and Employees, Suspense, California, Erotica, Fiction, Love Stories
ISBN: 9780373217427
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2001-01-02T07:00:00+00:00

Rory felt his chest tighten while he watched the play of emotion in Peggy’s face. “I’m sorry.”

“So am I.”

He glanced up in time to see Lummus laugh, then swing his nephew onto his broad shoulders before heading out of the door of the gym.

“Some things I’ll never forget. I won’t let myself forget.”

Rory looked back at Peggy. She was staring into her coffee now, a wrenching sadness in her green eyes. She had spoken the words so softly, he’d barely missed them.

“What things?”

“Opening the door at three o’clock in the morning to find the police chaplain and a deputy chief standing on my porch.” The hand she’d rested on the table inches from Rory’s tightened into a fist. “Going through twenty hours of labor without being able to hold the hand of the father of my child. Then, years later, having to explain to that child why her daddy went away.” Her brow furrowed. “No cops. Never again.”

Rory rubbed a hand over his face. It had to be the height of irony, he decided. Peggy had no idea he was a cop. He’d had no clue the woman he’d almost ravished only hours ago—and had obsessed over since—was a cop’s widow. A widow who had sworn to never again get involved with a man who carried a badge.

Great.

The thought of the kisses they’d shared had him clamping down on a hard tug of guilt. Because he’d kept the truth from her, she hadn’t known—couldn’t have known—that by moving into his arms she had stepped into territory she’d forbidden to herself. Then he hadn’t known, either.

Now he did.

So, what was he going to do about it?

He set his jaw. It wasn’t in his nature to take advantage of a woman. With those he had involved himself with in the past, that had never been an issue since he’d gone out of his way to choose women with philosophies similar to his own. One didn’t have to factor emotional entanglements into the formula if the parties involved moved freely through life with no regrets, no baggage.

Rory now knew that the woman sitting in silence beside him had plenty of baggage.

He had no doubt that, had Peggy known he was an FBI special agent, she never would have let him get close enough to exchange the searing kisses they’d shared. And she sure as hell wouldn’t have encouraged him to ask her again to go to bed with him. Which was a question he had fully intended to ask again. Soon. Maybe even after they got back to the inn that night.

Not anymore, he decided grimly.

He had given his word to Blake Fallon, and he would keep it. That meant staying in Prosperino for as long as it took to find out what had contaminated the water on Hopechest Ranch. Since the question of whether Charlie O’Connell was on the up-and-up remained unanswered, Rory knew he needed to stay at Honeywell House until he found out that answer.

He slid Peggy a sideways look.

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