Quinn 1 Once A Thief by Hooper Kay

Author:Hooper, Kay [Kay, Hooper,]
Format: epub
Published: 2010-12-24T00:43:14.564000+00:00

NINE

I f Wolfe hesitated, it was only for a second. He came around the desk, picked up the flashlight, and went down on one knee. “Where is it?” he asked somewhat tautly.

“Right side, toward the front of the desk,” she answered. “Where the phone lines are run up through the floor.”

Storm was pushing it, and she knew it. She had no business acting this way. Especially when she had to acknowledge that it was entirely possible that he felt nothing for her except a male’s virtually automatic temptation for an attractive and available female.

And, anyway, she had a job to do, dammit.

A job that included lying to him.

He came out from under the desk and sat back on his heels. Turning off the flashlight, he set it on the desk and said, “You were right; it does look like it was done in a hurry.” He didn’t meet her eyes.

They were so close to each other that Storm’s knee was touching the black leather covering his arm. She didn’t want to talk about phone patches but had no choice.

No choice.

“It wouldn’t have taken long. Five, ten minutes if they knew what they were doing.” She watched a muscle bunch underneath the tan skin of his jaw and wondered if it was due to anger or something else.

He started to get up, but he turned toward her as he went onto one knee, until they were almost facing each other—and he froze when, without thinking, she reached out to him. Her fingertips touched his dark shirt.

Wolfe turned slowly the rest of the way until they faced each other completely. His hands lifted to her denim-covered knees, the weight of them warm and hard. She didn’t resist when he eased her legs apart, or when his hands slid up the outsides of her thighs to her hips and pulled her toward him.

It was a starkly erotic position, and everything female in Storm responded wildly. Her inner thighs pressed against his sides just at his waist, and her hands lifted to his shoulders. They were almost eye to eye.

“Did I give you a sleepless night, Wolfe?”

“Yes, dammit,” he said, his voice as rough as the surface of granite but not hard at all.

“But I’m not your type. How could I disturb your sleep?”

“You’re going to make me admit it, aren’t you?”

“I’m just asking a simple question.”

“Then I’ll answer it.” His head bent toward her, his eyes focused on her lips, and his voice roughened even more. “I’m taking your advice—broadening my horizons.”

“It’s about time,” she whispered, just before his mouth covered hers. She had forgotten all about the unlocked door and wouldn’t have cared very much if someone had reminded her.

Wolfe had forgotten their lack of privacy himself. The way she was moving against him sent his already burning desire soaring until he was on the verge of completely losing control.

He probably would have given up the struggle, but the clear tone of the computer’s beep, so alien as it intruded on flesh-and-blood passions, recalled him at least partially to his senses.

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