Risk of Exposure by Emmy Curtis

Author:Emmy Curtis
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Forever Yours
Published: 2016-05-02T23:00:00+00:00

Damn him and his fingers, and his dick, and his smart mouth. She snuggled next to him for a short moment, wondering for a second if this was what normal people felt. The warmth in a man’s arms. A certain vulnerability that she’d never allowed herself to feel.

The irony that she was exploring these feelings with a man who was categorically the least likely candidate for comfort and security didn’t escape her. Or maybe that was why she could explore her own vulnerability with him—because she knew it couldn’t be real, that she couldn’t rely on him. Although that was on her.

She rolled onto her back, with one leg out of the covers and off the side of the bed. There was nothing like blackmailing someone to help her with a mission and then wondering why she couldn’t trust him. Yup, that was all on her. Why couldn’t she have just been nice to him and politely asked for help? She was certain that’s what normal people would have done. But normal had never really entered her world after high school.

She’d been petrified that she’d lost him when she’d gone to get him from the barn. He’d been alive but not coherent. It took the mother of all efforts to get him inside the house without making a noise. Her heart had hurt—she’d literally had chest pains, knowing that she’d put him back in the same position he’d suffered through in Afghanistan. Luckily he hadn’t been able to speak as she’d taken off his clothes and tried to warm him with her body and the blankets.

Had she felt something for him? Or had it been a normal response to nearly losing a fellow human being? And a reluctant co-conspirator. One who made her laugh inside, even though she seemed to be perpetually rolling her eyes at him. He’d rescued her from falling in the stream. Put her well-being above his. What did that mean? Did he like her, even though she’d blackmailed him? It was all too much to take in.

Mentally shrugging, she jumped up and stretched. “Now if you could only produce a full breakfast and coffee from your snowsuit, you’d be the perfect way to wake up.”

“Sorry, all my eggs broke when I fell into the stream trying to protect you. Eggshell everywhere, let me tell you.”

She stopped. Maybe subconsciously she didn’t want to owe him anything—but clearly she did. “That was very…” She dragged out the last word because she couldn’t think of the right one. Brave? Kind? Protective? “…clumsy of you. But thank you nonetheless.” Why had she said that?

He didn’t seem at all bothered by her flippancy. He grinned. “Is there a shower around here?”

She pointed at a door. “The loft here is all set up for live-in help. But my boss didn’t want me to live with them. I had information to dead-drop, and if I were living in, I wouldn’t have the freedom of movement I do now. Well not now, now, obviously. Now we’re stuck here until tonight.

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