Safe in His Sight by Regan Black

Author:Regan Black [Black, Regan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2016-08-03T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

Mitch could practically hear Julia thinking while she did the dishes. She’d been energized by her new theory about the stalker’s identity as a coworker, then she’d abruptly gone quiet. He hadn’t indulged himself and kissed her again, though resisting had been a challenge. When she’d pulled up her hair, he’d yearned for a taste of the creamy skin of her neck, to feel the pulse at the base of her throat beat gently against his lips and tongue.

Astute as she was, receptive as she’d been to his kisses, it would be stupid to think she hadn’t noticed his desire. Maybe he’d been so forward and his desire so obvious, he’d scared her away before he had a chance to do things right.

Rather than dwell on that small misery, he gave his full attention to the computer. It wasn’t a bad theory that someone at her office was the root of this mess. Julia wasn’t the only lawyer he’d known, just the first from Marburg’s notorious ranks. If most of her fellow attorneys took after her rude boss, Julia’s sense of decency must be a rare commodity inside that building.

Scrolling through the pages of pictures on the website, he noticed a scarcity of female attorneys. Apparently, the managing partners—all male—weren’t worried about maintaining their equal opportunity stats. He’d watched his dad’s generation deal with similar issues in the fire department. The rigorous training was compounded by a steep gender bias. Few women qualified to work fires and those who did usually had to overcome all kinds of doubt within their firehouses. He couldn’t imagine adding backstabbing to their list of daily concerns. He glanced over his shoulder at Julia with a new appreciation for her unfailing composure.

He ignored the women and older men and those listed in satellite offices across the country. He spent more time on the younger men, reading through the bios in case the pictures weren’t current. When they all started to look alike, he pressed the heels of his hands to his eyes.

He heard her poking around the cabinets and allowed it to distract him. At some point he had to tell her they were having dinner with his family tomorrow. He sure hadn’t figured out how to tell his mother he wouldn’t be there.

“Any luck?”

“Still looking,” he replied, reluctant to dash her hopes. He twisted around in his seat. She’d pulled up that glorious red hair again, securing it with a clip. He flexed his hands, wanting to let it down and sift it through his fingers. “Do you work with anyone you know from law school?”

She shook her head. “I’m the first in a long time to be hired by Marburg straight out of my school.”

“First woman, too, based on the bios I’ve read.”

“Yes.” Her chin came up and her hands twisted the dish towel mercilessly.

“The dish towel isn’t the stalker, Julia.”

Her eyebrows dipped in a frown, then her expression cleared with a spate of nervous laughter. “I would like to get my hands on the right target.

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