Save Me (The Donovan Family Book 7) by Watson Margaret

Author:Watson, Margaret [Watson, Margaret]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Dragonfly Press
Published: 2016-02-19T05:00:00+00:00

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Livvy closed Gus Swenson's office door carefully, her hand gripping the doorknob tightly to prevent herself from slamming it. She wanted to make the walls shake with her fury. She wanted to tell Swenson exactly what she thought of him.

He'd told her to work harder. To get something solid against Bates. The connection between Philby's murder and Bates was too thin. It wouldn't hold up in court, especially with Henry Bennett defending Bates.

After fifteen minutes of negotiating, she'd managed to wring from Gus a promise of protective custody for Williams and Sampson if they coughed up any useful information. But his dismissal of the rest of her efforts stung.

She stormed into her own office and sank into her chair. The last time she'd met with Swenson and gotten pissed off was after he'd assigned her to work with Ryan.

Some of her anger dissipated as she thought about how that had turned out. Gus's smug expression at that initial meeting told her the state's attorney had expected fireworks between her and Ryan. Lots of shouting and anger. Gus had been stirring the pot, hoping something would boil over.

Huh. Maybe Gus was shrewder than she'd realized. Something had boiled over, all right. And as a result, she and Ryan had put aside their history and actually worked together. They hadn't yet found the silver bullet that would take Bates down, but they were circling closer.

The personal connection they were forging? Gus wouldn't care about that.

But for the last couple of days, Livvy had spent a lot of time thinking about it.

Livvy swallowed, thinking about what might happen that evening. After Ryan picked her up.

She wasn't impulsive when it came to men. She went slowly. Cautiously. The debacle with James Dugger more than a month ago had been an aberration, and it had only reinforced her usual restraint. Fortunately, she'd caught him going through her briefcase before he could read the file she had on his buddy David Blaine.

She was falling for Ryan too quickly. She knew that. But he was different. He didn't want anything from her. They'd been forced together by Swenson. He was the last man she should be interested in, after what had happened between Ryan and Cilla, but he wasn't that man anymore.

He was protective of her. Thoughtful. Concerned about her safety.

And he made her pulse race and her heart pound like no other man ever had.

Last night, he'd done nothing more than give her a foot massage, and she'd melted into a puddle on the couch. Spent all night thinking about the kiss they'd shared.

Shoving the images out of her mind, she grabbed a pen, opened a folder for a case she was taking to trial in a few weeks, and tried to put Ryan out of her mind. Mooning over him all day would only lead to frustration and clock-watching.

Hours later, when the second hand of her wall clock ticked over to five p.m., she tucked her pen into a drawer and pushed away from her desk.

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