Rules in Defiance by Nichole Severn

Author:Nichole Severn
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2019-09-23T18:10:51+00:00

Chapter Nine

A broken woman made the most dangerous kind of warrior.

As Elliot led her back into the cabin, dried tear streaks cutting into the ash smudges on her face, he believed that 100 percent. She was a survivor. Always had been. And, damn, it looked good on her. Handing her the bag she’d packed at her apartment, he nodded toward the bathroom down the hall. Lucky the Blackhawk Security team had thought to grab it from the wreck. Otherwise, she might’ve been stuck wearing his MIT shirt again. He swallowed against the image of her dressed in nothing but that shirt earlier. “Why don’t you go clean up? I’ll round up something other than peanut-butter Oreos for—” he checked his watch “—breakfast, apparently.”

Waylynn ran a hand over her arm, dead on her feet. She moved toward the kitchen. “You don’t... You don’t have to do that.”

“You’re dead on your feet, Doc.” He gave in to her gravitational pull, closed the distance between them. Her perfume mixed with the smell of smoke became part of him. “You hired me to protect you. So I’m only going to say this once because I know you’ll push yourself over the edge if I let you. I need you fed, cleaned up and in my bed within the hour. No argument.”

Her mouth thinned as she crossed her arms and shifted her weight onto one foot. Defiance sparkled in those ocean-blue eyes as she hitched one knee to the side, every bit the brazen, smart-mouthed woman he couldn’t get out of his head for a minute straight. Hell, her middle name was defiance. She’d pushed at his boundaries at every turn, buried herself beneath his skin to the point he didn’t know how to get her out. Wasn’t sure he wanted to, to be honest. “You realize I killed the last man who tried to boss me around, right? You sure you want to go down this road?” Sadness colored her voice.

She wasn’t in the mood for joking. Elliot had embraced a special kind of darkness that allowed him to become whomever he needed to be in order to get the job done. He’d tricked dozens of targets into handing over their money, convinced them they were getting the better end of the deal, made them trust him. And she blew that all straight to hell when she looked at him like that. Like she was up for the challenge. And, damn, if that wasn’t the sexiest thing he’d ever seen. “I think I can handle it.”

“Be careful what you wish for.” Leaning into him, she planted her palms on his chest and rose on tiptoe. Her mouth leveled with his ear. His blood pressure shot into overdrive as she dropped her voice. “The devil comes disguised as everything you think you want.”

Her fingertips brushed across the oversensitized skin down his arms as she headed for the bathroom, not a single glance back. His heart restarted as the bathroom door lock clicked into place. Seconds ticked by.

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