Running Wild by Linda Howard Linda Jones

Author:Linda Howard, Linda Jones [Linda Howard, Linda Jones]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780345520791
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2012-11-27T06:00:00+00:00

CARLIN COULDN’T SLEEP. The wind was howling, bringing colder weather with it, but it was more than the wind keeping her awake. Dinner had been strange, with an underlying tension despite Darby’s absence. Their group chemistry had been upset, and even though Darby hadn’t been a particular friend to any of them, they’d generally accepted his complaining and gotten along with him. No one joked around, the way they normally did. On the other hand, no one seemed to particularly miss him, so Carlin decided everyone simply needed some time to settle down.

The knuckles of both Zeke’s hands were scraped and bruised, though thanks to sessions of soaking them in bowls of ice water the swelling was minimal. He could flex both hands, and make fists, so no bones were broken. His left cheekbone had some puffiness to it, but again a judicious application of ice had done wonders.

The idea that Zeke had gotten into a fight for her—that was what was bothering her. After Brad, she simply hadn’t been tempted by any kind of relationship, but Zeke was kind of the antidote for Brad. Brad threatened her; Zeke protected her. Under those same circumstances she thought he’d have stepped up for any woman, not just for her, and that in itself made her heart hurt because it spoke to the kind of man he was.

But it wasn’t just that. There was fire between them, fire that was becoming more and more difficult for her to ignore. It would be so much easier if she didn’t occasionally catch him looking at her in a way that revealed too much, with a hooded intensity that took her breath. When she caught some men mentally stripping her, she felt annoyed, as if they were encroaching on her privacy even if they never said anything. When she caught Zeke doing the X-ray vision thing, it made her breathless, warm, and restless in her own skin.

Since he’d startled her in his bedroom and she’d found herself lying beneath him, wanting what she couldn’t have, feeling that he wanted the same thing, the temptation had grown sharper.

She should’ve left this place weeks ago.

She could leave now. Tonight.

But she wouldn’t. She was caught in a balancing act: this was a safe haven from Brad, she was socking away money, and damned if she didn’t like what she was doing. On the other side of the seesaw was the emotional cost of staying here, and that cost was growing larger with time. There had to be a tipping point, but she could only trust that she’d know when that time came, when she sensed the cost of staying outweighed the benefits. That was when she’d move on.

But right now, she had to deal with her sleeplessness. No matter what had happened today, in the morning she still had to get up at the same friggin’ ungodly hour to start breakfast. She needed to relax, settle her mind.

She threw back the covers and stepped into the warm slippers

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