Running the Risk by Lea Griffith

Author:Lea Griffith
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sourcebooks
Published: 2018-02-06T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

His hands were empty. That was his first thought upon waking. As empty as they’d been during the last year, and that was unacceptable. He came up in a rush, hands fisting, gaze cataloging the entire room. Empty.

Where was Ella?

He glanced out the window, noticed dawn was just breaking over the mountains and that it was still snowing. A sneeze sounded from somewhere in the direction of the kitchen. Jude followed the sound and found the reason why his hands were empty.

Ella, head buried in his pantry, gorgeous ass in the air, hummed softly. “You know what, kitty, I don’t see any food for you,” she said as she stood up and backed out of the pantry. “I guess—” She stopped when she spotted him, a wry smile curving her split lips.

She was so lovely. She’d obviously showered and was dressed in a fresh pair of his sweats, another New Mexico State sweatshirt covering her torso. Jude wanted to rip it off her.

“When did you get a cat?” she asked him, a saucy note in her voice.

“I didn’t,” he said, glancing at the tortoiseshell-colored feline.

“She was at the door when I opened—”

He crossed his arms over his chest. “Why were you opening the door?”

She didn’t respond.

“Ella? Give me the truth,” he demanded.

“Perimeter check, okay? I did a perimeter check,” she told him, raising her chin a notch.

Shock ran through him, followed closely by anger. “You went out into that weather dressed like that?”

Her gaze narrowed, sparks flying from her winter-gray eyes. “I put on shoes.”

“She put on shoes,” he muttered. “It’s ten below out there, Ella. We’re in the mountains, and it’s snowing. You need more than just shoes!” Why was he yelling?

“Stop yelling at me. Someone had to do a perimeter check. Your ass was out stone-cold on the couch,” she reminded him.

“We’re safe,” he said firmly. “I wouldn’t have you anywhere you weren’t completely safe.”

She moved to the cat that wasn’t his and began absently petting the animal. The cat preened underneath her hands. Jude wanted those hands on him.

“You and I both know that nowhere is completely safe, Jude,” she said patiently. “And if this cat isn’t yours, where’d it come from?”

“No clue. Put it out,” Jude snapped.

She eyeballed him and crossed her arms over her chest, clearly mimicking his action. “No.”

“What?” He would never make the cat go outside in this weather, but damn—did she have to fight him on everything?

“Jesus, what’s your problem, Jude?”

He lowered his hand and cradled his hard cock, raising an eyebrow mockingly.

She threw back her head and laughed out loud. Her laugh moved him just as irrevocably as her orgasm had last night. A year without her. He’d been half dead when he saw her in Beirut a few weeks ago. Right now, in this moment, he needed to go to his knees and thank whoever was listening upstairs that she was alive and with him.

“Poor baby. You didn’t handle that last night?” she asked coyly, lowering her hands and sauntering over to him.

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